Jillian on Love The Highly Sensitive Empath and The Narcissist
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Jun 3, 2024 Exploring the challenges faced by empaths in relationships, childhood influences on sensitivity, navigating unhealthy relationship dynamics, establishing emotional boundaries, and empowering empaths to choose healthier relationships. Embracing self-awareness and resilience, setting boundaries with narcissistic partners, and prioritizing self-care for a fulfilling life.
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Empaths' Hyperfocus on Pain
- Empaths are hyper focused on detecting pain and dysfunction in others due to childhood conditioning.
- This hypervigilance serves as a protective mechanism to anticipate and manage emotional unpredictability in relationships.
Origin of Sensitivity Traits
- Highly sensitive and empathic traits often develop from unpredictable or emotionally unstable parenting.
- Children learn to predict moods and regulate themselves to feel safer in chaotic environments.
Choosing Dysfunctional Partners
- Many highly sensitive people unconsciously choose partners with problems to recreate childhood dynamics.
- This offers an illusion of control by trying to fix or manage the partner's difficulties.