Awakening Your Superpower: The Transformative Journey of Self-Compassion with the Founder of Eternal Empath and Author, Karen Blaine
What if your greatest power isn’t about being perfect—but about embracing who you already are?
In this heart-centered episode of The EmPOWERed Half Hour, Becca sits down with author, retired hypnotherapist, and speaker Karen Blaine to explore the beauty of imperfection, the practice of self-compassion, and how reconnecting with your passions can transform your life.
Karen shares her journey from a career in hypnotherapy to becoming a seven-time author, diving deep into the themes of self-worth, healing, and inner strength that guide her work.
Through heartfelt reflections, real-life lessons, and practical mindset shifts, this episode invites you to release perfectionism, reframe self-criticism, and rediscover joy in the simple, soulful things that light you up.
The Illusion of Perfection
Why chasing flawlessness limits growth—and how accepting your humanness unlocks true confidence.
Reframing the Negative Loop
Simple tools to shift your inner dialogue and transform self-criticism into empowerment.
The Power of Passion
How reconnecting with creativity, hobbies, or play helps you heal and align with your higher self.
Morning Mindset Practices
How affirmations, gratitude, and mindful breathing create lasting emotional resilience.
From Trauma to Triumph
How life’s hardest moments can awaken your purpose and deepen your compassion for others.
Key Moments You Won't Want to Miss:
Personal journey from motherhood to hypnotherapy to writing seven books that empower others to heal.
How loss and grief can become catalysts for creativity, purpose, and deeper self-connection.
The importance of reframing negative thoughts and cultivating compassion for yourself in moments of doubt.
Surprising connection between gratitude, passion, and discovering your unique “superpower.”
How aligning with your passions not only fuels joy—but transforms your health, relationships, and leadership.
Empowering Thoughts to Take With You:
“No one can be perfect. We’re human, and it’s really important to love ourselves through it.” – Karen Blaine
“When we connect our minds to our heart, that’s just beautiful.” – Karen Blaine
“You are more than good enough. Go to self-compassion, and know that you are special and you have a superpower.” – Karen Blaine
“Do it because it’s joyful. Do it because it lights you up.” – Becca Powers
About Karen
Karen Blaine is a published author and certified hypnotherapist specializing in conversational hypnotherapy. An intuitive empath, she writes to educate, enlighten, and inspire readers to embrace authenticity, self-love, and gratitude.
A lifelong creative, Karen began with poetry and music before focusing on writing. She has published four books and written two more, all centered on self-discovery and growth. Her works include Who Are You (on personality types), Dreamscapes (on dream decoding), Subconsciously Speaking (on the power of the subconscious), and You Are Not Alone (on self-love, resilience, and connection).
An avid reader of human connection and communication, Karen earned her BA in Speech Communications from California State University, Northridge. A lifelong Southern Californian, she’s been married for over 40 years and raised four positive, caring, and successful children.
Connect with Karen Blaine
Learn more about Karen Blaine’s work and her books at eternalempath.com
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What part of Karen’s story spoke to your heart? Was it her wisdom on self-love and compassion, her belief that everyone has a superpower, or her reminder that passion is the path back to your true self?
Becca Powers: Welcome to another episode of The EmPOWERed Half Hour. I just had such a wonderful pre-conversation with seven-time author—she’s about ready to release her seventh book—retired hypnotherapist, speaker, podcaster, and just an amazing human, Karen Blaine. I can’t wait for the audience to get to know you more. Welcome to The EmPOWERed Half Hour.
Karen Blaine: Thank you. It's just so nice to be here. I'm so happy to talk with you.
Becca Powers: When we were talking before, I just really loved your energy, and I'm like, I know we're gonna have a good episode and that the audience is gonna love it. So, you spent a career as a hypnotherapist and now you're currently speaking, writing, podcasting. Talk to the audience a little bit about—what is your heart center right now? What is your biggest passion? What are you writing about, speaking about, and podcasting? And then I want to hear your background—how you got into hypnotherapy and transitioned into what you're doing today. But let's start with your heart center.
Karen Blaine: My heart center is to try to help others, of course, and help them see that everybody has a superpower. You know, I know self-love can be a buzzword, but so many people still don't have it from the heart. One of my goals is to use everything possible that I've learned and that I've written about to help with that self-love, self-worth, and self-compassion, and let them find their own superpower.
Becca Powers: I love that. I love that. And I think, you know, self-love can be kind of a buzzy word, but obviously self-worth and self-love are so important. But you added a third one into your summary there, which was self-compassion. I would love to expand on that before we hear more about your background, because I personally feel that as I’ve worked with clients and spoken to large groups, self-compassion is sometimes missing—or oftentimes missing.
On the Power of Self-Compassion
Karen Blaine: I totally agree. I think that people are so hard on themselves, and they get really critical—in a business environment and in a lot of different areas. I feel like, from the heart, they need to be compassionate with themselves. They need to say, “It’s all right.”
The last book I published is called The Illusion of Perfection, and it’s about not wanting to be perfect, not needing to be perfect. It’s really relatable to self-compassion because we need to accept ourselves and love ourselves and be compassionate with ourselves and know no one can be perfect. We’re human, and it’s really important to love ourselves through it.
Becca Powers: I think that's beautiful and so important. I think too, the reason I feel that it's an important message is because, well, none of us are perfect. But typically, especially when you are empathic—which a lot of the listeners are—I have a lot of high performers, leaders, and coaches that listen to this podcast. They really want to serve and help, and sometimes their compassion is so outward to the world, to their business, or to their clients, that they miss themselves and don’t even realize it.
Karen Blaine: I agree. And if everyone had that, they’d be able to more freely give from the heart.
Becca Powers: Let's talk a little bit about your background. We can start wherever you'd like, but I know you had a full career as a hypnotherapist and conversational hypnotherapist. So let’s talk a little bit about that and then how you transitioned into writing and speaking.
Karen Blaine: Okay, sure. Well, I was a mom of four.
Becca Powers: Oh, I got four too! I have two mine, two his. And they're all young adults. We did it—we raised them!
Karen Blaine: Same here. Same here. A lot of connections. So, I knew I wanted to write from the time I was five.
Becca Powers: Wow.
Karen Blaine: Another connection! I sort of pushed it down because I knew it was about these kinds of topics—sensitivity—and I was always told, “You’re too sensitive.” From my background and the society I was around, you needed to be external, and I wasn’t that way. I was an internal person. So I pushed it down and got married young, had kids, and then I turned around and became a hypnotherapist because I just knew I had to go deep.
After that, I felt like it was time to start writing. My dad passed, and that was an inspiration for me. After that, I started to write. And then, at some point during the writing, my best girlfriend passed too. So all of it continued along that path, that journey.
Shared Experience Through Loss and Writing
Becca Powers: It’s not funny in the sense of what happened, but funny in the sense of the connections—we’ve never met before, and my writing journey started... well, it was my dad’s passing that was a catalyst for my writing.
Karen Blaine: Wow.
Becca Powers: And when I wrote my second book, my brother passed away, and it brought me deeper into my soul and deeper into connection with spirit. I felt, and still do, that it just deepened me so much as a person. Obviously, there’s been a grieving process too, but it’s just wild to meet someone else who is a writer that had similar catalysts—and also had four kids!
Becca Powers: In your career as a hypnotherapist, what would you say were some of your biggest learning lessons or an “aha” that you’ve taken from that career into what you’re doing now?
Karen Blaine: Absolutely. I specialized in conversational hypnotherapy. What I ended up doing was talking to the client for about 20 minutes before we even got into that place—that zone—similar to your yoga place, where you could just bring it down.
We’d get in a nice, soft, comfortable chair with candles and just bring it all down, breathe a lot, and get as close to being under as we can—but not full hypnotherapy. Then we talk. Ninety percent of the time, it is about things like self-compassion, self-love, and self-value. People are so critical—they have these negative looping tapes.
What I want to do is turn that negative loop, reframe it, and make it stop—make it more of a positive loop for them. Then we focus on their superpower, because I truly believe everyone is born with a superpower. We’re all unique, we’re all special, and we all have one.
Becca Powers: I agree with that so much. I wrote Return to Radiance, and in Kundalini teachings, Radiance is our final expression or self-actualization. Within our Radiance is our superpower—our uniqueness, gifts, and talents that are unique to us. When we are tapped into them, life is in alignment, life is more joyful, more fulfilled. You talk about service and impact—a lot of people want to make that—and you don’t have to try to do that. You do that because you’re in your truth.
Karen Blaine: Absolutely. Yes.
Karen Blaine: As people feel comfortable, in the book You Are Not Alone that I wrote, I talk about gratitude because that really helps people to get out of that critical thinking. When you’re grateful, it’s hard to say, “Oh, I’m not enough. I’m not good enough.” You say, “I am good enough. I can do this, and I’m going to be as good as I can be at it.” You don’t have to win all the time.
Then I also go to passions, because I feel like in passions, there are so many. I list them so someone can pull a superpower from one of them. Everyone has something they’re really special and good at—it can be art, sculpting, gardening, or making a beautiful flower garden. It can be cooking—people find it meditative while they cook.
Becca Powers: I say that all the time too. I think passion is a gateway to your higher self.
Karen Blaine: Yes, I totally agree.
Becca Powers: I work with corporations, leaders, and high performers, but my impact as a leader and as a sales professional became so much more when I tapped into my passions. Ten years ago, I started writing again after years of not writing. I always knew I was a writer—since I was a kid. Whether it’s short stories or poems—when you’re a writer, you just know you’re a writer.
I realized I didn’t have to abandon my job or my responsibilities for my passions. I could carve out time for the things that really filled me up. I needed it too, because my dad had passed away and all sorts of things. So I really needed to be reconnected with that.
Becca Powers: I really needed to be reconnected with that, but I am vibing with what you're saying because I think that at a certain point in life, a lot of people—and I would love to hear you expand upon this as far as what you've seen with your clients and with your readers and stuff like that too—but they get so lost in just becoming an adult and doing the mold of what we're supposed to do.
Because there's no longer a, “Well, I'm not going to be an Olympic gold medalist,” or “I'm not going to win the award,” there’s no reason for doing it. No—do it because it's joyful. Do it because it lights you up. I would love to hear your take on that. Just talk a little bit about passions without it having to be tied to anything.
Karen Blaine: Yes.
Becca Powers: Gold star on the war.
Karen Blaine: I feel so strongly about that because I really, for me, I've always thought about just enjoying myself. Mindfulness, which you've learned in yoga, is enjoying that moment. And for me, it's definitely each day. I've always been someone who practices mindfulness all the time.
However, I have in the past had negative looping, so I can't say I haven't had self-love issues where I needed to. But what I was going to say about passions is in my book The Illusion of Perfection, I really do talk about how it’s not always good to try to make everything about reaching your pinnacle.
There’s nothing wrong with success—that’s a good thing—but it’s more important to make it about your heart, about how well you feel about how you're doing. Not the results, but how well you feel. Are you doing your best? That’s all you can ask for.
Becca Powers: I have seen such a positive side effect for people who just allow themselves to enjoy things like gardening or cooking. Going back to dance—they’re not trying to be award-winning dancers or anything like that. They’re just back to the ballroom.
Karen Blaine: It can be anything.
Becca Powers: Anything. And I have seen their sales go up, their relationships improve, even people heal from autoimmune diseases and stuff like that. I just love that you talked about passions. You could tell that I was like, “Woo, let's go!” Passions are so important and they play such a critical role in our health and well-being.
Karen Blaine: I so agree. Like you were saying, it's part of our journey. The more we can relax with it and know—like I know a lot of corporate people just want to get ahead maybe—but if they can stop and read books like mine or yours, then they can see that it's very important just to have good vibes along the way.
I do affirmations, mantras, and mindfulness. I also do reframing, which is part of that—alternating and changing perspectives.
From Trauma to Strength
Becca Powers: Why are you passionate about your work?
Karen Blaine: Mostly because of what I’ve gone through in my life. I felt misunderstood, so I wrote books that talked about that—but also about getting through to the other side. Going from trauma to strength.
It’s important to me that my books help others. If somebody gets helped, that’s all I care about. I don’t care about the money at this point. I care about helping another person get healthier and more powerful in their own right.
Becca Powers: Isn’t it awesome when you can contribute to that?
Karen Blaine: Yes, totally. It’s amazing.
Becca Powers: Since you talked about trials and triumphs, can you share something to empower someone in a troubled spot right now?
Karen Blaine: Start from the morning. When you get out of bed, look in the mirror and say to yourself:
“I love myself. I love and accept myself. I am more than good enough. I am great just the way I am.”
If you have five more minutes, do mantras or yoga. Breathing exercises really help. Singing is another great one—it teaches you how to breathe and express yourself.
To turn things around, when you feel negative looping, start to reframe it. Say to yourself:
“I’m going to be an optimist. I’m going to look at this glass half full.”
Move into passions and gratitude.
Becca Powers: I love that so much. When you’re in your lows, you’re swarmed with negative thoughts, fear, and anxiety. You have to give them a pattern interrupt. That’s what I love about what you’re saying—it’s not “woo woo,” it’s science.
Karen Blaine: Exactly. Even the philosophers like Socrates talked about reframing—asking, “Why did I feel that way? What could I have done differently?”
Becca Powers: What’s an empowering message you’d like to share with listeners?
Karen Blaine: You are more than good enough. When you find yourself being too critical, go to self-compassion. Know that you are special, that you have a superpower—and go to gratitude.
Becca Powers: I have goosebumps. That is beautiful.
Karen Blaine: All my books are on Amazon, except my latest one. I also have a website: EternalEmpath.com, where you can find my books or get them through Amazon.
Becca Powers: What’s the best place to find you on social?
Karen Blaine: I have a social media group because I’m technologically challenged—and that’s okay! They handle it for me.
Becca Powers: That’s great. We’ll have all the links in the show notes. Karen, it was an absolute honor and pleasure to have you on the show.
Karen Blaine: I’m so glad we had this chance and opportunity.
