Toxic Empathy
The flood of emotions you experience when someone you love is hurting? It's not just empathy; it might be toxic empathy that's destroying your peace.
Toxic empathy occurs when you become so entangled in others' emotions that you can't distinguish where their feelings end and yours begin. For many Muslim women especially it's a learned survival strategy born from cultural expectations to carry emotional labor without complaint.
The solution is learning to build gates, not barriers. Through the soulful intelligence paradigm, you can develop the ability to feel with someone without drowning in their experience. You can offer genuine support without making their healing your responsibility. This transformation begins by recognizing that empathy should be a momentary connection, not a constant burden.
Whether you're dealing with a frustrated spouse, a child's meltdown, or difficult workplace conversations, regulated empathy lets you stay connected without getting consumed.
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