How do I carry other people's hardest moments without breaking?

You sit with people on their worst days. You hear what they cannot say to anyone else. You carry it home, and it does not leave when you do. This is not weakness. It is the nature of the work you chose. But notice what you are actually doing when the weight feels unbearable. You are trying to hold their outcome, not just your effort. Their healing, their choices, their fate — none of that was ever in your hands. Only your attention, your skill, your next honest action — that is yours. You do not do this alone. Stop pretending you must carry it alone. Your team exists so no one person holds the whole weight. Use them. Say what is heavy before it crushes you. A pod that does not share the load is not a pod. It is just several people suffering privately in the same room.