Toxic empathy
3 strategies when compassion becomes a burden
A suffering shared is not always a suffering halved – in the video you will find out how to get out of “cargo donkey mode”.
Do you sometimes feel like you’re absorbing other people’s feelings like a sponge? Are you suffering from your excess of compassion draining your own energy? When empathy becomes a burden, it’s time to find balance. In the video you will learn three tips to maintain your emotional balance and protect yourself.
This may sound bizarre at first, but too much empathy can actually be very harmful for us. Empathy is the ability that allows us to empathize with and understand others – what’s so toxic about that? It becomes unhealthy the moment we allow ourselves to be so consumed by the emotions and moods around us that we base our feelings and actions on them and feel a burden.
At what point does loving compassion become toxic empathy?
Individuals experiencing distressing levels of interpersonal empathy often behave in an overly conforming or even self-sacrificing manner and have difficulty protecting their own needs as well as those of others. Are you familiar with that? In the video you can check whether you are affected and learn three strategies on how you can break out of the hamster wheel of empathy that is harmful to you.
Sources used: forbes.com, betterup.com