04/21/2026
The journey is long and difficult.
I realize that the strongest steel is forged in the hottest fire. Some believe what we survive makes us stronger. But what about when the fire is so hot, it consumes you. Lifelong trauma buries itself so deep that it goes on for generations. Sometimes the hyper vigilance destroys the switch to turn off the fight or flight response. Empaths who feel the pain of others sometimes accumulate so much that the body never recovers. It starts with one diagnosis and as time goes on, the body continues breaking because it can never recover from the years of damage and trauma that refuses to stop. Sadly this damage is almost entirely internal. No one can see the damage. As the body attacks itself it starts with the brain. Destroys the nervous systems so your body never again regulates what should be automatic. Blood pressure, heart function, breathing, kidneys, joints, the vascular system, until all functions are irreversibly forever broken. As years go by, it keeps getting worse. The PTSD that never goes away. The brain that never turns off. The body that never sleeps. Sometimes no matter how much self work you try to accomplish, trying to put down the years of accumulated baggage that becomes heavier with each passing year, trying to choose peace, sometimes it’s too late. But still you try everyday. You try to be a better version of yourself. You still try to support others. Because that is what being an Empath is. It’s giving and giving until there is nothing left. it’s going without to help others. It’s showing up no matter how little of you is left. It’s trying everyday to make a positive difference.
