Stop Carrying What Isn’t Yours (The Emotional Weight We Carry for Others)

emotionally available, often carry the emotional weight of others through projection, emotional absorption and self-abandonment—without even realizing they are doing it.

Have you ever walked away from a relationship wondering why you feel emotionally devastated while the other person seems to move on completely unscathed? You may have been carrying more than your own emotional weight.

As highly sensitive and empathic people, we can become so accustomed to feeling the emotions of others that we don’t always recognize when we have taken on something that doesn’t belong to us. We analyze their behavior, try to understand their wounds, worry about what they’re feeling, attempt to repair the relationship—and somewhere along the way, we leave ourselves.

In this episode of The FlameWalker Podcast, I explore the emotional and energetic dance that happens when one person disowns or projects their emotional reality while another person absorbs it and carries it. This dynamic can be especially powerful between narcissistic people and empaths. One person projects and disowns; the other absorbs and implodes.