Empowerment Through Empathy

Brittany Busse, MD
Nov 5 · 6 min read
Photo by Masaaki Komori on Unsplash

My story wasn’t going to have a happy ending.

As a self-proclaimed Empath, I had lived the greater part of three decades under the massive and unmanageable weight of other people’s emotions and reactions. My feet were raw from walking on eggshells. My hands were calloused from carrying the burdens I insisted on taking from others. My heart was entombed in concrete to keep anyone from approaching the soft and naked…

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Brittany Busse, MD

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Recovering Codependent writing about the intersection between mind, body, and society. Physician with special interest in mental health and burnout awareness.

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