Compassion is beautiful — until it costs you your dignity or sense of safety or self-worth. Learn how to recognise when compassion or understanding becomes self-denial and how to return to self-trust.

So many of us were taught to stay calm, keep it together, and move on — but that approach only takes us further from what we actually feel. Feeling your emotions isn’t about effort or control. It’s about slowing down enough to notice what your body already knows.