Your energy is leaving through the people you love, and the people you hold

You feel people. You always have.

You know how someone is before they speak. You're the one friends call, the one your family leans on, the one who notices what everyone needs. Maybe that's also your work, as a therapist, a nurse, a coach, a healer. Maybe it's just who you are in every room you walk into. Either way, you hold space for others, and you've noticed that something leaves you while you do it. You come home from a conversation, a visit, a phone call with your mother, and there's nothing left.

That's not a flaw in you. It's a cord. Between you and every person you're bonded to there's a line of energy. When they're emptier than you, which is most of the time, because you're the one holding, the line tilts and your energy flows out to fill them. They leave lighter. You leave drained.

You can't close your heart to fix this, and you wouldn't want to. Sensitivity is your gift. What you need is for the lines to stop running one way, and that can be done without losing a single relationship.