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What’s an empath’s role in unpacking systemic oppression?
I believe that energetically sensitive empaths are a sacred mirror, reflecting the good, the bad and the ugly of the human experience. Note: we are not here to be a sponge or to transmute the world’s pain.
Holding up a mirror is not an easy mission. We live in the most divisive time period in modern history, in the throes of massive global and personal change, at the crossroads of deciding which timeline will be humanity’s future. Pulling off the bandage to expose personal and collective wounding f**king hurts.
As a white, cisgender, straight person, I’ve challenged myself to sit quietly with all the feelings that arise inside me as people of color, different genders, sexual orientations, socioeconomic, cultural classes, and those who are differently abled express justifiable rage from centuries of oppression and mistreatment.
To be honest, there are times when reading the phrase ‘white people are like this’ triggers me. A conditioned voice inside my head screams, ‘But not me, I am a good white person, how dare they call me out like that!’ I’m learning to acknowledge the origins of that voice and make a conscious choice to not allow my inner triggering to minimize another’s person’s experience.
