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The Energy Xchange
Welcome to The Energy Xchange, a podcast for deep feelers and quiet leaders. This is where we explore what becomes possible when you stop fighting your natural energy and start working with it, in your business, relationships, and daily life. I’m Colleen Wolak, a corporate marketer turned mentor for my fellow deep feelers and author of "The Empath Detox". As a highly sensitive professional who spent years untangling the patterns of overthinking, people-pleasing, and shrinking myself to feel safe, I now help others step into their power without losing the superpower of their softness. We don’t have to be loud to be seen, and we don’t have to push to be powerful. Everything is energy… let’s start this exchange!
The Energy Xchange
Are You Holding Space or Holding the Energy?
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If you tend to internalize the stress of your partner, your clients, or the general emotional temperature of the room, this episode's for you.
In this week’s episode of The Energy Exchange, we’re exploring the difference between holding space and holding the energy.
Highly sensitive people are wired for empathy. But there’s a difference between being present and being absorbed.
We’re diving into:
- How other people’s stress quietly hijacks your nervous system
- The difference between holding space and holding energy
- Why absorption is a learned habit (not your personality)
- How hypervigilance and people-pleasing blur the line between empathy and over-identification
- Why this matters deeply for business owners and professionals
- Simple ways to interrupt the merge and strengthen energetic boundaries
This episode is for you if:
- You leave conversations and feel them in your body for hours
- Other people’s stress quietly becomes your stress
- You’ve strengthened your boundaries but still question if you’re being “too much” or “too cold”
- You’re a business owner who gets pulled into other people’s urgency
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