How I learned to tell the difference between my emotions and those of others – and to recognize what truly belongs to me. For a big part of my life, I navigated through an intense emotional space without knowing that some of the feelings I was experiencing weren’t even mine. I felt anxiety, confusion, irritation, anger – just to name a few – and didn’t realize I had identified with them, even though they didn’t originate within me. I wish I had heard a different perspective y