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When empathic sensitivity becomes overwhelming

I can feel other people's emotions so strongly that I cannot tell what is mine anymore and it is exhausting being in public.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Porous energetic boundaries can indicate both gift and wound, requiring discernment between authentic attunement and trauma response.

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