Inner Work With MaryAnn Walker: Stop People Pleasing and Start Honoring You! 125: The Empath Abyss: Symptoms, Triggers, and Solutions (Practical Tips for Empaths & HSP's)
The "Empath Abyss" is the emotional state where empaths and highly sensitive people feel disoriented, overwhelmed, and overly accommodating due to heightened emotions and reactions from others.
This episode is essential for empaths and highly sensitive people who often find themselves overwhelmed and disoriented by the emotions of others. Here's what we'll cover:
- Understanding the Empath Abyss:
- The empath abyss is an emotional state where you feel disoriented, with heightened emotions and difficulty differentiating yourself from others.
- Symptoms include emotional overwhelm, insecurity, struggling to make requests, becoming overly accommodating of others, and doubting your own feelings and boundaries.
- Common Triggers:
- Negative responses from others to your requests or boundaries.
- Feeling invalidated by others' strong emotional reactions.
- Emotional immaturity in relationships, where one partner deflects or intensifies emotions rather than addressing the core issue.
- Strategies to Navigate Out of the Abyss:
- Process Your Emotions: Take time to differentiate your emotions from others' and validate your own feelings.
- Regain Confidence: Remind yourself why you brought up your needs or boundaries and stay firm in your integrity.
- Set Clear Goals: Make your actions measurable and clear to yourself, ensuring you remain aligned with your values.
- Action Steps:
- Calm your nervous system to see situations more clearly. Step out of fight, flight, freeze or fawn.
- Make your boundaries and requests measurable and stick to them.
- Remember that others' reactions are about them, not you.
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