Walk Beside Me, Not Inside Me.

Walk Beside Me, Not Inside Me.

February 17, 2026 · 26 min · Season 7 · Episode 3

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The episode explores how empathy can sometimes become intrusive and discusses the concept of emotional colonization in various relationships.

Send us Fan Mail What if our well-meaning care has been crossing a line we rarely name? We pull apart the quiet ways empathy can turn into supervision and how “emotional colonization” shows up in families, faith communities, and friendships. Instead of offering easy answers, we sit with better questions and a more humane posture that honors agency, consent, and pace. We start by tracing the cultural current the host calls societal narcissism—how proximity tricks us into thinking we have juri...

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