text: This problem you speak of just about wrecked me when I was a nurse. I turned to drugs for a while to deaden the pain I took on from these people I dealt with. That is NOT the answer of course!\n\nI find taking a lot of time to myself when I need it helps. But the separation of ourselves from the sufferer is so subtle, so delicate. We must be connected enough to help and yet protect ourselves. I practice the 'That's your pain, not mine' mantra but I still feel it somewhat. I just don't take it with me when we part. \n\nI will email you about this and expound when I have my thinking cap on and can gather my thoughts. It is a very pertinent question for us healers.\n\nBut yes, what heals is not us, it is the Universal 'mojo' flowing through us, that is what I call it being funny. But it is 'God'.