Lighthouses Don’t Go Running

How rescuer syndrome camouflages our shadows

Photo by nikko macaspac on Unsplash

Rescuer syndrome is a thing. That’s when we want to constantly help and save others. Here is the thing: being a rescuer can camouflage our own shadows.

By constantly attending to others, we can hide from looking deeply at ourselves and where we are not fine, for the truth is, as long as we are still walking on…