Sometimes with very little effort
Just a simple sentence or two can be enough.
I think many mistake high empathy with kindness and whoaboy no.
High empathy is a very powerful tool for many abusers
Paradoxically this is why I think most people are, at worst, benign because if more than a tiny minority were full of malice the harm they would do is incalculable
Earlier this morning, I wrote elsewhere about why I'm NC with one of my siblings. Now your post has me thinking about how much time, energy and resources our collective family put into managing that one person, their behavior and its outcomes.
I read this after beating myself up. And then telling myself to be kind to myself and remembering my self esteem rolled a handicap before I was born with the parents I got, lol
