#85 Emotional Boundaries: Stop Carrying Everyone Else’s Feelings

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If you’ve ever walked away from a conversation feeling tense, heavy, or emotionally “full”, like you’ve absorbed someone else’s mood into your body, this episode is for you.

In Episode 85 of The Billy Boss Show, Emotional Boundaries: Stop Carrying Everyone Else’s Feelings, we unpack why so many women end up over-functioning emotionally. Not because they are weak or overly sensitive, but because their nervous system has learned to keep the peace by managing other people’s reactions.

This is a grounded, compassionate conversation about how to care deeply without carrying what isn’t yours.

In this episode, you’ll learn:
▪️ What emotional boundaries actually are (and why they are not walls)
▪️ The difference between empathy and emotional responsibility
▪️ How people-pleasing can be a safety pattern rooted in fear of conflict or rejection
▪️ The shift from being responsible to someone, not responsible for them
▪️ A simple boundary check: “Is this mine to carry?”
▪️ A quick 30 to 60 second release ritual to help you let go of absorbed emotion and come back to yourself

Tune in if you’re ready to feel lighter, clearer, and more connected to your own needs. Let this episode be the moment you stop taking responsibility for everyone else’s emotions, and start coming back to yourself with calm, self-respect, and real emotional boundaries you can practise straight away.

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If you've ever walked away from conversation feeling heavy, feeling guilty, anxious, or drained like you're carrying someone's else mood in your body. Well, my friend, this episode is Welcome back to Billy Boss show, your pathway to healing self love and confidence through honest conversation, practical tools, and real life breakthroughs that bring you back to your amazing, beautiful self. Now, if you are new here, I'm genuinely so glad that you isn't an accident. If you've been carrying a lot, craving something more, this feel seen, to feel supported and hurt, rebuild your self-worth, real, authentic you. And to my beautiful regular here week after week. Your commitment to yourself, to It is so powerful. So thank you for being here. And let me just tell you, I don't take this presents lightly. I really do appreciate you. And on that note, today we are boundaries because I know Why do I say this? Because I did misunderstand boundaries the first time when I heard that I need to work on my boundaries. Guess what I thought to myself, out of my life. I'm going to be rude, nasty, So on this note, for some boundaries, they would instantly shutting people out. But healthy emotional boundaries They are a way of staying connected to yourself without abandoning yourself. Boundaries will help you to show respect, more care, more love. First of all, for yourself and So this is an episode about learning how to care without caring. The emotional burden of others. And let me remind you, women are No doubt you will agree on this We women, we are not tired from We are tired from caring too Caring others people's feelings, their reactions, their disappointments, their stress, their moods. And guess what? We turn around and we call it So let's slow it down right now There is a big, huge, giant difference between empathy and emotional responsibility. Empathy is I can feel you. Empathy is I'm stepping in your shoes and walking with you on this journey. I do feel you. On the other hand, emotional responsible for you. So empathy is healthy. Empathy is caring. Empathy is connection. Empathy is sensible and But emotional responsibility is It often becomes. Over responsibility, it often It often becomes anxiety. And often it becomes a burnout. How do I know this? I went through this journey. So when you are feeling with But when you are feeling responsible for someone's mood, absolutely. It feels heavier. And for me, I could always feel Now, if you're a high achiever, a mom, a leader, a business owner, a carer, a partner, no doubt you have been praised for being the one who holds it all together. The one who is so strong. The one who can handle But sometimes that strength is actually a nervous system pattern that says, if I manage everybody's feelings, I will be safe. If I manage everybody's If I put everything onto me, they feelings, their reactions, their disappointments, their stress, their moods, I will be safe. I'm doing something. There were times in my life and instantly feel the have done this before. You can feel me now talking. If someone was off, guess what I If someone was unhappy, guess I felt responsible for fixing If someone was disappointed, What do you think Billy would I would immediately start Adjusting myself on the outside, it looked like I was caring, I was kind. But underneath it was fear. And at the time I did not know At the time, I was not really because I lived in this pattern. So underneath it was fear. Fear of conflict, fear of rejection, fear of being misunderstood, fear of being too much. And if you have a history of unpredictability, you never knew scream or do something, or if to read the room. This makes perfect sense. We will read the room. We will feel the feelings. And guess what? Your nervous system learned to and keep the peace. So what was I doing? I stayed alert. I was noticing everything. I was just keeping the peace. But here is the cost. When you carry other people's your own feelings. Hear me again. When you carry other people's feelings, you'll lose access to your own. You stop asking. What do I feel? And you start asking. What do they feel? And what do I need to do about And this is not self love. This is only survival. So let's talk about what are an emotional boundary. Is your ability to say about you without taking this I can be present without being I can support you without Okay, so what are the three main Without taking anything into your body, without being responsible for them and without rescuing them? And this is especially important Whether you lead a team, a lead yourself, it is very emotional boundaries and ability So yeah, I can care about you, but without taking this into my body. I can be present without being And I can support you without And leadership isn't caring Leadership is staying grounded Now, please do not confuse when just for business women leading When it comes to leadership, I We are leading ourselves, number And if we don't know how to lead ourselves, our emotions, our thoughts, that it's very hard and challenging to lead anybody else. So remember that leadership. It is inner self leader. Now I want to give you a simple way to spot emotional responsibility when it's happening. And here are a few signs that What isn't yours? So you might feel anxious when Even if you have done nothing wrong, or you keep replaying the conversation trying to find the perfect words. Another sign is that you rush to You rush to rescue. Or maybe you rush to make it Another sign could be that you feel guilty for having needs because someone else is suffering. Another sign could be you leave interactions feeling drained, feeling heavy. Or maybe you have that tension in your chest and your shoulders. Now, if this is you, I want you to hear this very clear and very gently. You are not weak. You are not too sensitive. Your nervous system, on the other hand, is doing what it learned. So now let me give you the simplest tool in the world that you can use it and it's going to give you. Or maybe it's going to become And here it is. You ask yourself, is this mine Simple. Is this mine to carry? I want you to imagine using this in a three common situations situation. One can be that someone is in a Instead of absorbing it and You quickly ask yourself, is Very simple. And the answer would be, well, It stays to feel. You can be still very, very carry it for them. Second situation can be that someone is disappointed in you or you think they might be, and your body wants to explain and apologise and prove yourself to them. Now in here, we really need to is this mine to carry? They might be disappointed with me, or maybe I'm thinking that they are, but is this mine to carry? Now, if you've done something You can repair it. You can repair it. But if this is simply someone having an emotion, well, that emotion is not your responsibility. And situation number three, someone comes to you with a problem. Well, you're a great friend. You are listening and listening So yes, you care, but you don't And again in here, ask yourself, Absolutely. No. You can support without You can be there for them, but it's not for you to load it on your shoulders and carrying it for them. Now I want to make this clear beautiful women get stuck. There is a difference between responsible for someone. So there is two distinct words So being responsible to someone means I communicate respectfully. I keep my word. I apologise when I'm wrong. I act with integrity. On the other hand, being a different meaning. And this means I manage their I prevent their disappointments. I fixed their discomfort. I carried they reactions. Well guess what, my friend, this Your job is to being responsible To be their friend. To care with them. And it's not for them. This is their own burden. So that is not your job. To manage their moods, to manage their feelings, to fix their discomfort. And if this is hard for you, if do that, I really have to take and so on. Well, it's usually because somewhere in your life you learned that other people's emotions were unsafe, and keeping them happy was a form of protection. So I can relate to this so much because in my life, I've learned that other people's emotions were unsafe. I lived in the environment that It was unpredictable, and I always was showing up to keep them happy because I was protecting myself. So if you are listening and you are thinking, but I don't know how to stop this cycle, here's what I'm going to share with you. You don't stop carrying other people's emotions by becoming harsh. You stop caring by becoming And clarity is Confidence. Clarity is where the growth And I want to give you a short after having interactions, boundaries, guess what? Life is life. Life goes on. People will be people, But there is a simple reset and it takes only about thirty to 60s. And here it is. First, physically shake out your I know it can be a little bit It can be a little bit unusual before, but you're having that Your chest is very tight. You're feeling that you are now taking their burden on your shoulders. First, you have to shake out least 10s because this tells the up because we do pick other pick on other people's energies. No doubt that when you walk into the room and you just feel the tension or something, you can feel it. You can pick it up, shake it Most of the time I'll just say it off, shake it off. So first step is shake out of Shake it off. Second thing that you can do, take one slow breath out longer than you breathe in and let your shoulders drop. This is where you're relaxing. And the third thing is place I release what isn't mine. I release what isn't mine. Or you can even say, I can care without carrying other people's burdens, other people's emotions. And then again, ask yourself the Is this mine to carry? And if it's not? Well, my friend, let it go. That's it. Let it go. It's not yours to carry. So shake it off. Slow breath out. Let your shoulders drop. Place your beautiful hand on I release what isn't mine. And then ask your boundary Is this mine to carry? That's very simple. Now, this might feel a little Shaking out your arms or You're shaking it off. Slowing your breath. Saying the words out loud. Now, if you're used to holding it all together, your nervous system might even resist letting it go. But give yourself a real chance isn't just a technique. The outcome is freedom. It's you no longer taking people's emotional burden. It's you feeling lighter. It's you feeling clear and more It's self-respect in action. It's choosing peace over It's presence over people So look at all of these So if it feels awkward, that's Guess what? Awkward is often just something So keep coming back to the And if it's not? Well, my friend, you let it go. And in advance. I would love to congratulate you applying this simple reset. Congratulations. Well done for doing it. And the more you do it, guess It will actually become part of Now, I don't even actually have things that I need to do it? I just go and do it. I shake it off. That long breath, shoulders I release what's not mine. Hey, is this mine to carry? Nabilk move on. Simple and clear and with lots of love for yourself and with lots of respect towards yourself. Now I want to finish this by who has been the emotional If you've been the one who holds everyone together, the one who keeps the peace, the one who senses everything. Well, my friend, I see you. But you are not born to live else's emotional weight. Not at all. You deserve to feel steady. You deserve to feel clear. You deserve to feel like you So your practice this week is Use the boundary check once per question is this mine to carry? And after one heavy interaction Shake it out slow. Exhale. Hands on your chest and repeat. I release what isn't mine. Well, my friend, I hope this right time, where you can take move forward in life with And this is how we show love and Now, if you would like more of emotional baggage and warmly invited to join the you'll be the first one to as it becomes available. Now the link is in the show for me you would love me to created Ask Billy Anything. Submit your question through the link in the show notes and I will answer in upcoming episodes. Thank you for being here with me Sending you much love your way. Until next Tuesday. If you love this podcast and find value in the conversation we are having, I would be so grateful if you could leave us a five star review and rate our show. Your support helps us reach more