Do you find your empathic nature—being to understand and share the feelings of another— often results in boundaries that are too open and porous to most situations? You feel flooded. You perceive so much, and as a result, you feel compelled—perhaps even obligated—to fix the situation because you don’t want the other person to […]
Toxic People. Ugh. We will encounter toxic people, no matter how strong, differentiated, empathic, or perceptive we are at sniffing out toxicity from far away. At work, in our families, among our neighbors and acquaintances, in our spiritual communities…in short, anywhere we go. And when you are a super sensitive person, someone’s toxicity can creep […]
Here in the U.S. we are coming into a holiday week—Thanksgiving. Now there are various tales about the origins of this holiday that omit “the rest of the story” in their telling. Digging into the history of the arrival of the early European settlers reveals the false narrative of the easy sharing of bounty between […]