Understanding Empathy Without Sharing the Pain

Practicing empathy without sharing the pain is a valuable technique that can be learned over time/nWhen faced with traumas, it is natural to initially feel the pain/nWhen empathizing with someone, it's important to share in the seriousness of the moment without making it your own/nCommunicating empathy does not require feeling the full brunt of someone's trauma or pain/nLetting someone's pain become your pain can be disrespectful/nA more empathic response is to acknowledge that you can't truly understand how someone feels