❤️‍🩹Empathy is Boring

“Empathy is boring (bullshit)”.

This phrase came from a friend of mine who’s in the lifeline association for many years, serving the suicide hotline with great success, saving lives.

“Yet we all need this bullshit to survive”.

The reason he said empathy is bullshit it’s because it’s essentially phrases that’re as simple as parroting what another person had said.

“I feel really sad today”. “You feel really sad today’.

“I feel like it’s wrong to treat me that way!” “You feel that person treated you wrongly”.

Yet it has profound impact on a person.

When a person is seen and heard - that’s when we can open up, and it’s safer to dive deeper into more of what we haven’t been willing to see in ourselves

That’s when healing happens.