Easter Sunday: The Dark Side Of Empathy, The Illusion Of Privilege, And Why Everyone Must Carry Their Own Cross

Are we really helping people when we use our empathy to excuse them out of trying? Are we being compassionate, or are we being enablers?

I am not going to lie, life felt damn near impossible last week. My anemia was in rare (or common, actually) form, and as a result it seemed as though I was crawling through existence.

Every single t…