On the surface it can look like a simply saying yes too often, putting others first, avoiding conflict, but underneath it is often something much deeper.

If you now find yourself waking up at 2 or 3am, have disrupted sleep or just cannot go back to sleep when you wake in the night, then this is the blog for you!

Empathy and compassion are not the same process in the brain. They follow different neural pathways. I remember feeling a moment of surprise. Like many people in helping professions, I had always thought of empathy as an unquestioned positive, something we should strive to deepen, expand, and offer generously. The idea that empathy itself might sometimes be part of the problem, rather than the solution, was unexpectedly enlightening.