011 - Boundaries and Empathy

Many Minds on the Issue

Boundaries and Empathy (011)

Important concept for our System Trust Issues series. Do other people's emotions overshadow your own? Do you have a hard time protecting yourself from emotional outbursts? Do you know where you end and other people begin? More on what is separate, and what ought to be.

When the world pushes up against us, it can penetrate our defenses and leave us defenseless, or with unmanageable boundaries and leaks inside and out. What are boundaries? How do boundaries relate to empathy and what do we need to fix them?

This is part of a series of podcasts leading up to a capstone on System Trust Issues. And this will also tie in to a later episode on Cording & Decording.

Trigger warning: Panic attack, crowded subway car. Mentions of anger, emotional manipulation and blackmail. Someone theoretically punching a wall. This is a high-level theoretical episode and should not be specifically triggering, but you still may not want to be operating machinery while listening to it and of course anything can be triggering to someone with a history of abuse. It's always possible others in your head are interested, so a little tip: Listen with the intent for everyone in your system to be able to hear it too: put it on an internal loudspeaker, so that they don't need to front to hear.

• episode transcript New
• As Inside, So Outside (and vice versa) (010) New - the boundary between internal and external reality
• How to Re-Associate with Your Body (007) New - the boundary between ourselves and our body
• Trigger Topics: Conformity (004) New - our social boundaries
• Welcome to DID: We Are Not Your Enemy (009) New - inappropriate internal boundaries
• Getting a Feel for Empathy
• United Front Boot Camp: Barbed Wire or White Picket Fence?
• United Front Boot Camp: Home Renovations: Intercom or Holodeck?
• United Front Boot Camp: What are you letting in?
• United Front Boot Camp (blog)]
• The Crissing Link Series (books) New
• The Crissing Link Series (books) New
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• https://kinhost.org/Main/United