Feel your feelings ✨restocked✨ It’s a hard time to be an empath Everything going on in our country and the larger world is… A LOT. If you’re an empath, it’s REALLY a lot. Empaths tend to feel big. We feel our own feelings intensely and we feel the feelings of others. It’s a beautiful thing and can also be incredibly painful. There is so much in the news that is troubling—women dying due to pregnancy complications, people being deported without just cause or due process, autistic people being labeled as diseased. If each day brings an avalanche of emotions for you, you’re not alone. Feelings are like tunnels. The only way out is through. We have to feel the intensity of them in order to process them. It’s tempting to numb out and avoid, but research shows us that can lead to long-term mental and physical distress. That means that the best way to deal with the avalanche of feelings is to go ahead and feel them. The Trump administration is anti-empathy (we still cannot understand how this is even a thing). The toxic masculinity vibes are strong. A big part of toxic masculinity is repression of feelings (which, as we can see on a grand scale, eventually becomes EVERYONE’s problem). If you’re a feeler, someone with high emotional intelligence, it can feel lonely right now. Those in power would have you believe you’re “weird” but you’re not. There are so many of us out here. It’s not easy to find fulfilling connections in our modern world, especially when the people in charge are only interested in negativity and divisiveness. Keep your people close. Nourish the connections you do have, and savor the new people you find who are on your wavelength. That’s the only way we can all get through. Collectively, we are all feeling our feelings, and the support of likeminded others is everything.