Empath Diaries

The Empath Myth: Sensitivity, Boundaries, and the Shadow

Many people believe that being an empath means feeling everything — and if you feel everything, you must help everyone.

If you feel joy, pain, suffering… then you are expected to carry it, fix it, and heal it for others.

But this belief is not compassion.

It is often ego disguised as empathy.

Because feeling everything is already a heavy experience.

I'm grateful beyond words 🥰

I grew up in a small mining town, in an ordinary family of teachers. Since childhood, I was taught to be convenient. Quiet. Like everyone else. But even as a little girl, I always felt out of place there. Where others were afraid to even stand up from their seat, I wanted to jump and fly. And that little girl could never have imagined that one day her words would be printed on the pages of an American print magazine. Life is strange. Healing is strange.