How to Stop Absorbing Other People’s Energy: A Real Empath’s No-BS Guide
Introduction: Yeah, I’ve Been There. Let me ask you something. Have you ever left a family dinner feeling like you’d run a marathon? Not because you ate too much stuffing (though let’s be real, that happens too), but because you somehow ended up carrying your cousin’s anxiety, your mom’s frustration, and your uncle’s quiet loneliness all the way home? Have you ever sat in a meeting, minding your own business, and suddenly felt a wave of inexplicable sadness crash over you—only to find out later that your coworker was going through a breakup? Or worse, have you ever spent an entire weekend recovering from a two-hour trip to the grocery store? If you nodded along to any of these, let me say this first: You are not broken. You are not “too much.” And you are definitely not alone. My name is [Your Name/Author Name], and I’m an empath. Not the…