21d (edited) • Anchor in the Storm
What brings you back to the shore? 🌊
Most sensitive people know the feeling of being pulled off centre. A friend in crisis. A news story that won't leave. A situation that hooks into you before you've even had time to decide whether you have the capacity for it.
And suddenly you're out there — exhausted, trying hard, going nowhere. The current stronger than you expected. The shore further away than you remember.
This is what compassion fatigue actually feels like in the body. Not a moral failing. Not too much sensitivity. Just — a rip current. Deceptive from the shore. Powerful once it has you.
The thing they teach you about rips is this: you don't swim against them. You swim sideways — out of the current — until you find calmer water. And then you make your way back. And certainly not go in to save someone in the rip, unless you are a strong swimmer and have a paddle board or floatation device.
But first, you have to know where the shore is. And you have to know what brings you back to it. Not in theory. In your body. The specific things that return you to yourself — to your own weight, your own rhythm, your own ground — when the world has pulled you too far out.
For some people it's movement. A walk, a dance, a shake of the hands.
For some it's silence. Or a particular song. Or bare feet on grass.
For some it's connection with friends.
For some it's a boundary named — an honest "I can be here for an hour, and then I need to go."
For some it's a small act of directed energy — writing a letter, signing a petition, doing the one thing that transforms helplessness into something useful.
None of these are about caring less. All of them are about staying in the water longer, more sustainably, without losing the shore.
So I want to ask you — genuinely: What brings you back? What is the thing — or the few things — that reliably return you to yourself when the world has pulled you too far out?
Drop it below. Even one word. 👇
This is the territory we explored in Session 5 of Anchor in the Storm — Compassion Without Collapse. 🌊
Round 2 of Anchor in the Storm opens soon — six weeks of somatic movement work for sensitive people and empaths. Try the taster on July 8, 7.30pm AEST if you want to experience it first. https://www.taline.com.au/
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What brings you back to the shore? 🌊
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