How to Stay Grounded When Someone You Love Is Frustrated or Upset with the Recover Your Soul Process

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If you’re an empath, a people-pleaser, or someone healing from codependency, you know how quickly another person’s mood can affect your own.

In this episode, I share a very real moment from my own life that happened on my birthday, when my husband had a tense reaction over a small laundry mishap. It wasn’t a big moment, but it was a familiar one. His frustration immediately shifted the energy in the room, and I could feel my old patterns wanting to take over, the urge to fix it, smooth it over, or make it better and to make it my fault.

What made this moment different is that I stayed present with myself.

This episode is about learning how to stay grounded when someone you love is frustrated or upset, without absorbing their energy, abandoning yourself, or shutting down emotionally. It’s about allowing others to have their feelings while learning that you don’t have to carry them.

Through the lens of the Recover Your Soul Process, we explore how acceptance, awareness, and loving boundaries help us respond differently. Not perfectly, but consciously. Not by disconnecting, but by staying rooted in compassion and self-trust using loving detachment.

Healing doesn’t mean the people in our lives will never be frustrated again. It means we no longer lose ourselves when t

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