We’ve named this home-grown carrot Chloe Kelly @chloekelly #lionesses #engspa @Lionesses Let’s hope it brings us luck #comeonengland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

What is ‘super-helper syndrome’? https://t.co/IiE5NkZ9qo If you live by the unspoken rule ‘I must help everyone’ or ‘other’s needs matter more than mine’, firstly, you’re unique and secondly, I wrote a book for you. Meanwhile, this lovely @happifulhq article explains it all! 💫

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Empathy in Overdrive is Exhausting #SHORTS #emotionalboundaries https://t.co/NvIIhPNkau via @YouTube

My internet vanished when a mast broke 1st April. 12 days later @EE messaged saying, ‘We’ve noticed a problem with your connectivity, it’ll be fixed within 15 hours’. Followed by ‘no it won’t’. Followed by ‘it’s been fixed’ when it hasn’t💩 The only solution: get outside

AI generated Image: care bear style boxed teddybear, with rose quartz crystal representing compassion, a wand to beam love to those who need it, a protest banner saying “Love Will Win” 🧵

Compassion has to have boundaries yes, but if it begins to discriminate, it is no longer compassion. It’s aligned with my latest concept, the ‘Redistribution of Empathy’ where we need to allocate more empathy to the richest 1%.🪡

Interestingly, my book, The Super-Helper Syndrome, also speaks about the danger of empathy in overdrive and pathological altruism. But my proposed solution is not to stop caring about others, but to simply start caring for yourself as well as you care for others. 🪡

Ta dah! My “Empathy Everywhere Bear ~ Beaming love to those who need it.” It’s a gift inspired by Elon, the far-right evangelical Christians who claim that empathy is a sin, and that it’s toxic, and Gad Saad who promulgates ‘suicidal empathy’. 🪡

A Republican Senator asks Musk to be a compassionate leader. This assumes (1) he can, and (2) he chooses not to be. “If I could say one thing to Elon Musk…please put a dose of compassion in this. These are real people… real lives" Senator John Curtis

dedicated my time to understanding other people, just as much as I have dedicated time and energy to understanding and healing myself. And just now I want to raise a celebratory ☕️ to my #parentified child friends out there, and say well done for getting this far.

giver, fixer, problem-solver. But I was so young. It may not surprise you that at the age of 12, I decide that I wanted to become a psychologist. After all, I had been playing that role too for quite some time by then. Why tell my story? Because for all of my life I have 🪡

providing emotional support. Although I was highly criticised and bullied at home, I was most valued when I was playing the ‘adult’. These helping behaviours were not just expected of me, they became part of my own self-image. I began to see myself as the helper, giver, 🪡

What inspired you to become a professional helper? I’ll start…. I grew up as a ‘parentified child’. I was given responsibilities that were way beyond what should and could be expected of a child. My duties included caregiving, housework, fetching, serving, and 🧵

Enjoy helping others? If you see this 🛟 it’s a sign! There are 5 Dynamic Helper Archetypes. Take the quick quiz to discover yours. It reveals your blocks and breakthroughs for personal growth, leadership success, and infinite impact on those around you 🥰 https://t.co/mK3wOnvLcb

Happy New Year! 🎉 How about setting those #NewYearsResolutions into motion with some of our top picks for helping your mental health? All available via our website: https://t.co/QyYGHjbfka @joannamoncrieff @kevin_parr @jessbakerpsych @rodericvincent #NewYear #HappyNewYear

Great to see this article in @happifulhq 🥰 explaining ‘What is ‘super-helper syndrome’? https://t.co/IiE5NkZ9qo @rodericvincent

@jessbakerpsych Thanks for coming on the show Jess! Your advice is absolutely brilliant. 🙏

If you feel as if the whole Christmas circus is resting on your shoulders, @jessbakerpsych’s practical advice for setting boundaries, banishing guilt, & easing the festive pressure on your schedule could be just what you need! The Happy Menopause podcast. https://t.co/UMZ880CbWs

Delighted to have appeared on this podcast again! Check out The Happy Menopause if you’d like a side-order of practical support this season ✨