You feel everything. You always have. Other people's pain walks into your body uninvited and sets up residence. It is time to take a sacred vow - not to stop feeling, but to stop abandoning yourself.
You feel everything. You always have. Other people's pain walks into your body uninvited and sets up residence. Their anxiety becomes your anxiety. Their grief becomes your grief.
Their anger lands in your stomach like a stone. You have been told this is a gift. And it is. But a gift without boundaries is a curse.
It is time to take a sacred vow - not to stop feeling, but to stop abandoning yourself in the process of feeling others.
Not to build walls, but to build a home inside yourself that is so solid, so warm, so fiercely protected that you can welcome the world's pain without being destroyed by it. This is the Empath's Oath.