Empaths, it's okay to not be the strong one sometimes.

Comment with a ❤️if you've ever reached out for help when you are broken, only to be told, "You'll be okay. You're strong."

If you're an empath, you've likely helped people in every single one of their times of need, only to find that, when you truly need help, no one is there, or they just expect you'll be fine because "you're the strong one."

One thing I see again and again in empaths I work with is this trend of empaths, even as children, knowing they had to hold it all together for their families. Or, having been put in a situation where they were told that they were the only one that could help.

That's a lot of burden to put on a kid's shoulders, especially one that is already so highly sensitive.

Fast forward to the empath you are today, and that little kid in you still believes that you need to be the strong one. Takes pride in holding it all together. Feels, in the depth of your heart, that you can't ever truly fall apart because you are the one holding everyone else up.

But this will eventually break you. There will be a moment when you truly need support, and, when that moment comes, it's very likely that you'll find out that there are few people willing to help you put yourself back together.

After all, if you are broken and they always rely on you, what happens to them? They can't handle that you might not be able to hold them up for a while.

You can break this cycle and finally both be the strong one AND have people in your life that give to you as much as you give to them.

I promise, you can. And when you have that, everything shifts.