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Hello Empaths. Today we are going to be diving deep into one of the most effective

and most destructive tools that narcissists and energy vampires use to manipulate the empath.

If you've ever felt like you're walking through a thick mist,

unable to see the truth of a relationship, or maybe you feel like a heavy weight is on your

chest whenever you have to say no to someone, you might be trapped in the fog.

And for what we're talking about today, fogogg stands for fear, obligation, and guilt.

Those are some heavy hitters, aren't they?

They really, really are.

And I think as empaths, so many of us try to navigate that in our personal relationships,

and our professional relationships, and just in the everyday interactions we have with

each other and with other people. I do too, but I wonder if, so, I wonder if we don't always

recognize that that is what we are navigating. I agree. Remember we had Terry Cole on the show a while back? Yes. She was talking

on one of her recent shows about positive projection, and I thought it was such an interesting

term. And she said that what most empaths do is they project their positivity onto other people.

So if we walk around and we're nice and we're not judgey and we don't make assumptions

about people and we don't even, we don't even think about trying to use fear, obligation,

or guilt to manipulate others, we are projecting those expectations and assumptions onto

everyone we meet to our detriment.

Oh, my.

That's a lot to think about.

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