Some of us walk into workplaces not just as professionals, but as seers. We sense what isn’t said. we feel what’s being hidden. We carry integrity in our bones and discernment in our spirit.
In toxic systems, these characteristics makes us a threat.
One: The System Knows Who You Are
Before you speak a word, your presence, disrupts the energy. Your calm unnerves the chaotic. Your silence exposes the schemes. Before long, you’ll find yourself carrying the emotional weight of a team – while being undermined behind closed doors.
Toxic systems use spiritually gifted professionals to clean the atmosphere, but then they discard them when they no longer comply.
Two: You Become the Moral Compass
You’re the one asked to train the new person – even though no one trained you. You’re the one called to fix the broken system – even though your own workload is ignored. You hold it together while others unravel, and slowly, they begin to resent you for the light you never weaponized.
Your spiritual gift becomes a utility – not a calling.
Three: The Cost of Carrying What’s Not Yours
You start waking up exhausted. You second-guess your sense of justice. You literally work up until clock-out time or might even stay late (I no longer do this anymore), clean up messes, absorb other people’s trauma. You don’t do any of this because you are a martyr or because you even want to be a martyr. You do it because your spirit can’t ignore what’s wrong.
No one thanks you. No one even asked for your insight. They just expected your labor.
Four: You Were Sent to Witness, Not Fix
This may be the hardest truth to hold: Not every place is meant to be saved. Some places are meant to be seen … exposed … named.
If you’re spiritually gifted, it’s not your job to fix systems that benefit from your exhaustion. Your job may be to see, to say, and to separate.
Five: Return to the Sacred
You don’t owe your calling to companies that abuse it. You don’t owe your discernment to systems that resent it.
Return to the sacred. Return to yourself. Let your next assignment come from alignment, and if they couldn’t or can’t receive your presence, that’s their loss. It’s not your failure.
My Voice Unchained 