Why Setting Boundaries is SO Hard for Empaths (and How to Get Some!)
Have you ever been told that you are "being mean" or "selfish" (or worse) when you finally decide that you are going to tell someone "no" who has been constantly draining your energy?
Or when you've decided that you no longer want someone's negative or toxic energy in your life?
Or when you decide that, for once, you are going to take care of yourself and NOT save someone who won't save themselves (for the 100th time)?
Empath Tip #3: You are allowed to take care of yourself.
One thing I talk about a lot is what I call "hyper-responsibility syndrome," and it is something exclusive to empaths.
What's hyper-responsiblity syndrome, you ask?
Well, it's that sense that you are personally responsible for not only every bad thing that could every happen in the world, but that you are also responsible for fixing every bad thing in the world, and that you always have to be alert that some bad thing MIGHT happen at some point in the future that you might need to do something about because, if you don't you'll be responsible for not seeing that bad thing coming and not doing anything to stop it.
Whew.
Being sensitive is strong. Own that you are an empathic badass.
There isn't an empath that doesn't bear the scars of the many horrible things we've been called. Of course, because we truly DO feel everything and we truly DO take everything to heart, this can impact us at such a deep level that we take their perspective on who we are as truth. Because of that, we try to hide the depth of our feelings, and we shove the pain we are sensing deep down within. And, we often get sick from this - powerful emotions have a tendency to make us sick if we try to deny them after all.
It's time to stop feeling shame because you feel so much. It's time to stop feeling like you are weak because you care.
Are you an Empath? Take the empath test and find out now.
I always knew I was different in how deeply I felt emotions.