Empowerment Through Empathy
Nov 5 · 6 min read

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…

