Any security advise without consideration of your threat model is less than ideal.
As others have said, if you send me an encrypted email, and I'm not prepared to deal with it, your message won't be recieved (your great aunt Tilly isn't going to be able to read your encrypted emails without a bunch of support)
In a general sense, the more we encrypt communication, the better we hide our source IP address, the safer we are, because if you only encrypt dangerous communications, it's a clear flag of what messages are dangerous. If they're drops in a sea of noise, it's harder to identify the important stuff.
There's another side of the coin though. You want to be careful doing mundane stuff over the same channel you would do dangerous things.
An example - I use a VPN for whenever I torrent stuff I don't want to point at my home. My browser talked to Facebook enough to trigger their suspicious activity bot, making me change my password. So the IP I was using to do secret stuff could theoretically be tied to an IP I was using at the same time for mundane stuff. If my personal safety was a risk over what I was doing, I'd be worried.