Watch Out for These 7 Empathy Weaponization Tactics That Will Trap You
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Have you heard, ‘If you truly understood me, you'd give me what I want?”
This week's Fan Mail comes from a listener in Sweden who asks Dr. Kerry to explain how empathy gets weaponized.
In this episode, Dr. Kerry breaks down the 5 types of empathy (affective, cognitive, compassionate, somatic, and perspective-taking) and explains why having empathy doesn't make someone safe.
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- 0:00When Empathy Becomes a Weapon
- 2:06The 5 Types of Empathy No One Explains
- 4:44Predators Who “Understand” You
- 5:31The Empathy Obligation Trap
- 7:09When Boundaries Get Pathologized
- 9:02Spiritual Bypassing and the Death of Accountability