Emotional Badass

The Lindsay Clancy Case. When Empathy Becomes Bias: Signs Compassion Has Lost Emotional Intelligence

September 20, 2026·57 min
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Outside a courthouse, women gathered to defend a mother who strangled her own three children, and I could not stop asking what that revealed about empathy itself. Over empathy can block natural consequences, a kind of codependency wearing empathy's clothes. Real emotional intelligence means holding more than one truth at once. That wider way of caring, without losing yourself inside it, is the kind of empathy I want for all of us. Sign up for this years Boundaries Intensive: https://soulcare.emotionalbadass.com/boundaries?coupon_code=BADASS50 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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