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Knowing she is a highly sensitive intuitive who was isolated in an apartment in San Francisco unable to leave because the smoke from the wildfires filled the air around her home, I gave a different interpretation to what her experience.
Not being able to breathe, go outside, or be with other humans significantly decreases our emotional bandwidth. Combine these compromises with knowing that there is no end in sight, going through a pandemic, worry about aging parents that you cannot get to, watching divisive politics, and trying to support a full caseload of clients in pain without any outside support.
Jess had such high expectations of herself that she thought these feelings of depletion were a fault of her own lack of ability.
When our bandwidth is compromised, by emotional crisis, chronic pain, difficulty breathing, burnout or being an empath to feelings in the field, it is always felt intensely in our sense of worth. This makes it worse!
There was nothing pathological about what Jess felt. Nothing is wrong with her. It is what humans feel when they don’ t have enough bandwidth. But she was suffering and deserve relief. On the call, I encouraged Jess be gentler with herself, prescribed her a trip out of town where she’ d be able to breathe again, and to practice these five ways of increasing her emotional bandwidth.
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