Do you find it very hard to disconnect from someone you love who is draining you?
Or to say "no" when you cannot do something, but you sense the other person's need?
Or to shut down from everything you've been feeling all day and be able to rest at night?
If so, you are like most empaths - you have a hard time having healthy boundaries.
For most of us, we've been taught that boundaries are a bad thing. In fact, if you had narcissists in your life that wanted to take all your energy and have you always ready to help them, they likely called you "selfish," "conceited," or worse when you tried to establish a healthy boundary with them.
If that happened, you likely internalized that, and now associate "healthy boundary" with "I am a selfish, horrible person for even considering such a thing."
It's time to undo that damage right now.
A boundary is simply a line drawn that indicates what is okay with you and what's not okay with you.
And, for an empath, a boundary is also "I am willing to take on this much energy from you, but I will not take that energy from you."
If you want to see why setting boundaries is so hard for us as empaths - and learn how to start setting them without feeling awful - check out my video below.
You can do this. You deserve to have healthy boundaries. You deserve to decide when you take on other's energy, pain, or issues, and when you don't want to do that.
It's not selfish. It's healthy.