When Did I Start Carrying What Wasn't Mine?

Many of us learn to carry what isn’t ours long before we realize we’re doing it.

In this episode, Theresa slows down with a single question: When did I start carrying what wasn’t mine to hold? Through a quiet, embodied moment, she explores how empathy can subtly turn into responsibility—and how managing others’ emotions can begin to feel like love, maturity, or being “good” in relationships.

Rather than focusing on dramatic boundaries or overt conflict, this episode stays with the quieter ways we take on emotional weight automatically, often without choosing it. Over time, that carrying can lead to a specific kind of fatigue—one that comes not from effort, but from holding.

Listeners are invited to notice where they track others before themselves, what sensations they override, and what might happen if that weight were set down, even briefly. There is no solution offered here. Only space to notice what you’re holding, and how long you’ve been holding it.