Too Much Empathy, Not Enough Boundaries

You feel everyone. You forgot you.

You’ve been absorbing the moods, pain, chaos, and needs of the people around you. And somewhere along the way, your own nervous system got drowned out.

This is fawn mode, where care turns into self-erasure. Where empathy overrides your body’s no. Where helping others becomes a way of disappearing from yourself.

You’re not wrong for caring this much. But you’re allowed to pause. To take space. To put your hand on your chest and whisper, “What about me?”

You don’t have to shut everyone out to return to yourself. You just need a line, a soft one, between their pain and your presence.

You deserve as much tenderness as you give away.