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7 Guardrails for Stewarding Your Purpose With Care
#5. Detox is more about frequency
1. The Instrument of Your Purpose
You’re compassionate, and that’s beautiful, but stop letting people vent to you any way they want.
Giving people unlimited access to your nervous system isn’t true compassion. It’s self-neglect.
You’re not a dumping ground.
Some people aren’t seeking healing so much as a place to dump their issues.
Your nervous system keeps a record of what passes through it.
A conversation can end, and the nervous system continues to echo with a story that isn’t yours.
It’s an energetic exchange where emotional energy is transferred.
If you keep serving as a free processing center for everyone’s pain, you’ll carry trauma that is not yours to carry.
Close the energetic loop.
Sometimes you need to acknowledge your limits: “I don’t have the emotional space for this today.”
Your peace is sacred, and the way you honor it shapes the work that can move through you.
Your nervous system is the instrument of your purpose. Protect its…
