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Are You “Empathy Bypassing”?

Leaning too hard on empathy can impede your healing process.

For many years as I tried to work through my trauma, I was still struggling to heal. It’s not that I wasn’t doing the emotional work; I was doing tons. I journaled, analyzed myself, attended therapy, analyzed myself some more, read psychology books, and so on… but I was stuck. And I couldn’t understand why I was…