3697: How I Learned to Let Go of Other People’s Emotions by Timia Roehrkasse on Emotional Freedom

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🗓️ 10 August 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3697: Timia Roehrkasse shares a deeply personal path to emotional freedom, revealing how she learned to stop absorbing the feelings of others without losing compassion. Her reflections offer powerful tools for sensitive individuals to protect their energy and reclaim their emotional space. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://highlysensitiverefuge.com/how-i-learned-to-let-go-of-other-peoples-emotions/ Quotes to ponder: "I used to believe it was my job to feel what other people were feeling." "I can feel with people without holding their pain inside my own body." "Letting go of other people’s emotions has been the kindest thing I’ve ever done for myself." Episode references: The Body Keeps the Score: https://www.amazon.com/Body-Keeps-Score-Healing-Trauma/dp/0143127748 Set Boundaries, Find Peace: https://www.amazon.com/Set-Boundaries-Find-Peace-Reclaiming/dp/0593192095 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily, how I learned to let go of other people's emotions by Timia
0:07.0	Rokasa with highly sensitiverefuge.com, and I'm Justin Mollick. Welcome back to a Sunday bonus episode
0:13.6	where I give you a little bit of extra content from a podcast in our network that I think we'll
0:18.1	also help you live a life that's a bit more meaningful and happier.
0:24.1	And this episode's coming from Optimal Relationships Daily.
0:29.3	So without further ado, here's Greg with the bonus post as we optimize your life.
0:40.3	How I Learn to Let Go of Other People's Emotions by Timia Rourkasa of highly sensitiverefuge.com.
0:45.5	You realize you don't have to carry those people's emotions, right?
0:51.0	My counselor peered at me over the edge of her laptop, her eyebrows slightly raised.
0:57.8	I pulled my feet closer underneath me, twirling my hair around my fingertip. I could feel the weight of the emotions I'd been collecting over the past few weeks. It was as if I were wearing a winter
1:02.4	coat in the middle of summer, stifled and buried underneath the heat, but unable to remove it because
1:07.9	it was all I knew. For two months, I'd been wrestling with being at my
1:12.0	house. There was tension in the air that lingered no matter what room I was in, tension that to me
1:17.3	signaled I wasn't safe, that at any moment things might crumble, tension that came from one specific
1:23.2	person with whom I'd butted heads a few months prior. It was silly, really, just some drama that
1:29.2	could have been avoided, but because it wasn't, I found myself at this crossroads. No matter how hard
1:34.7	I tried to create casual conversation or fix things with her, whenever she was in the room,
1:40.2	I felt tense and emotionally overwhelmed. Often just her being in the house would take my great day
1:45.8	and completely flip it upside down. I felt the need to fix things to help her along in her journey,
1:51.6	to fight for friendship that deep down, I didn't even want. If you're a highly sensitive person,
1:57.4	like me, maybe you can relate. How could I stop carrying others' emotions?
2:03.3	Slowly, I put my journal and pen down. But how? I asked my counselor. It sounds nice in theory,
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