EP071 Letting the Empathy In

Welcome to episode 71 where we finish out this month’s focus on empathy, and specifically allowing ourselves to receive empathy from another.  We explore how beneficial empathy is to our well-being and personal growth.   

In this episode, we describe how for some of us, receiving wonderful empathy can actually raise anxiety, and we can block our receiving it out of fear.  We then process ways you can begin working toward being more open and welcoming to it in the future.  

Key Elements:

• Process the ways we need empathy to heal and grow, and yet can still push it away..
• Describe the origins of having anxiety around receiving empathy from another.
• Walk through ways you can begin healing that and becoming more open to the healing.

'If we can share our story

with someone who responds

 with empathy and understanding,

shame can't survive.'

― Brené Brown

Resources:

If you need a refresher on manipulation, check out episode 51.

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