You Don’t Have to Absorb Everyone’s Emotions

You Don’t Have to Absorb Everyone’s Emotions There’s a quiet kind of exhaustion that many emotionally aware people carry. Not because they’re doing too little. Not because they don’t care enough. But because somewhere along the way, they learned to emotionally pick up everyone around them. Someone’s mood shifts… A text sounds shorter than usual… A loved one seems distant… Someone gets disappointed… Someone becomes irritated… …and suddenly their nervous system begins reacting as though they...