If you are to the point where your service is leaving you depleted, it is not serving to the best of its ability anymore. There is a tendency in enlightening human beings to give until they are completely spent before they will consider their own needs.
Dear Ones, you cannot serve the whole without serving yourselves, too. If you are wishing to make a difference your self care is not a luxury, it is essential. To hold yourself separate from your own care, and the support that is always available to you, will ultimately impede your ability to serve because you cannot pour from an empty vessel. Your self care is even more essential during these busy energetic times that can be very taxing on your physical bodies.
You are on the planet to anchor the energy of love. How can you do that if you aren’t willing to receive and hold it yourself? Love is sustenance. It is meant to flow to you, and through you, for the highest good of all, and that means you, too. ~Archangel Gabriel through Shelley Young