Put yourself in their shoes,” they say — but most people never take off their own. They look at someone’s actions through the lens of their own life and say, “If that were me, I’d never do that.” But that’s not empathy — that’s judgment wearing compassion’s mask. Real empathy means letting go of who you are for a moment, and seeing through the eyes of who they became. What shaped them? What pain built their walls? What silence taught them survival? You don’t have to excuse it. But understanding it? That’s how you release it. That’s how you forgive without forgetting. #MBGC #HealingThroughAwareness #BreakingCycles #Forgiveness #Empathy #MothersBreakingGenerationalChains