Month Overview - Empathy Month:

As we come off gratitude month, we come into a theme and topic that in any other space would not be such a loaded word.  But empathy is a COMPLICATED issue.  Just like we learned that gratitude is not just about a thank you, and can even be weaponized in a narcissistic relationship, it’s time to recognize that empathy is equally if not more complex.

It’s a big word in the narcissism world, because lack of empathy is considered a core issue in these relationships. In contrast, your empathy, a gorgeous, connected, and frankly quite miraculous part of you (given the origin stories many of us have) – is a gift and yet is also a perilous piece of you in the narcissistic relationship.  This month we will take a 360-degree tour of empathy – yours, and the twisted ways it shows up in them in a relationship.  We will connect empathy to attachment, trauma bonding, your personality, and how empathy is integral to your healing but how to balance it when engaging in the fine art of discernment.   The heavy lift this month is to learn how to retain your empathy despite all that happened but learn how to navigate toxic relationships with it and in spite of it.