Re: I need emotional boundaries
Me too.
I go upland down in my awareness of it though. And when it makes me tired, I can go to the other extreme and have no empathy at all, because I have nothing left to give.
Sometimes if I remember i talk to myself about it, "it is ok for dc to be upset. Happy is not the only acceptable emotion. This is their emotion, it doesn't have to be mine."
Smetimes I try and do something that Allison described about acknowledging the feeling in me that is coming from them, and then imagining it flowing out of me, up to God, with me like a channel for it.
That's if I remember in the intensity of the moment.
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