There are some great exchanges and inquiries here - very illuminating

Yulia - you describe the challenge of the 'empath' exceptionally well - I can feel the turmoil of it. And I'm sure many people reading will be having similar challenges and not realising why - just swirling in emotion and feelings that they don't fully understand. I would encourage anyone in this kind of predicament to read the post above. And also you summarise 3 key approaches to dealing with it, which I felt to highlight once more...

1. Make sure I stay conscious

2. Listen to the sense of rightness rather than what I feel/want, making sure that what I say or do feels right. If I am not sure or feel increasingly uncomfortable in the situations - I simply leave. For me it is a challenge because the default is to stay and challenge myself and others. But I found it is crucial to know when to stop the communication

3. Take enough time to be alone, let my field clear and then feel out and reflect or realise something. Too much triggering and mixing with others can literally drive crazy. When I am most of the time alone, sleep alone and doze interactions very carefully I stay sane. Scanning through my past, times like this were the only times I felt sane and could function.

It's crucial for any 'empath' to get to know you're own feeling boundaries and be connecting with those in any given moment. Since I aire on the catalytic side, I find establishing boundaries quite natural (not to say that I haven't also overriden these in the past). I find it's a key of being really embodied, and feeling into the body, not going out of body for any reason. But also being really clear what helps your own vibration - whether it be meditation, what kind of food, connection to nature, etc etc. And plenty of alone time - outside of Openhand, I spend most of my time alone.

So now to the base wound of the catalyst (I wonder why Marije you tend to consider that there's avoidance going on because we're looking at specific issues?). I think it does help to explore within these archetypes even though it's unhelpful to crystalise in labels. It is clear that different types of configurations have particular issues. So I felt to feature this article today and post what I consider is the 'catalysts' base wound. What do you experience?...

The Cosmic Role of the Spiritual Catalyst

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