How can an empath hold space for another?

Can an empath or highly sensitive person hold space for someone without absorbing negative energy and feeling depleted afterwards?

𝒀𝑬𝑺, 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆’𝒔 𝒉𝒐𝒘…

🐺 Compassionate listening (listen without trying to fix, have an opinion or rescue)

🐺 Acknowledging how they feel (to them) and how you feel (to yourself)

🐺 Trust their process and have faith in their healing journey

🐺 Stay in your space, grounded and anchored, this helps them and you

🐺 Be with yourself as well as with them in that moment, pendulate between focusing on them and on you.

🐺 Focus on the weight of your body and the rhythm of your breath

🐺 Focus on your sit bones, what you’re sitting on and how it supports you

🐺 Bring in some sage, palo santo or light a candle to shift the energy or move the conversation to outside where the elements can come in and shift it as well

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Sensitive people can become scared of negative energy or heavy energy when someone is going through something, they can take a step back or try to block how it is impacting them or making them feel.

This can have a doubly negative effect, because it is stopping two people from feeling their emotions.

If you are sensitive or empathetic, your sensitivity is a gift, as we grow into our gift it can feel like a burden.

It’s here to teach us not to lose ourselves when helping others.

To give ourselves love and compassion like we would another.

And to teach us about compassion in general.