In this raw and powerful opener, therapist and author Molly Davis Moon throws down a heartfelt gauntlet to compassionate people everywhere: “Who they told you you are, and how they told you to show up for your life? It’s not true.”

For generations, people with empathy, conscientiousness, and deep care for others have been disempowered, used, and programmed to stay small. In this inaugural episode, Molly explores the ancestral, cultural, and internalized systems that have kept kind-hearted people stuck in cycles of people-pleasing, exhaustion, and fear of their own power.

But the old way? It’s crumbling. And something new is rising.

“Your healing is revolution work… Because the revolution can't happen on the outside until it's happened on the inside.”

-Molly Davis Moon

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Episode timestamps:

00:39 – Tune in to hear the challenges that big-hearted folks face and the historical roots of why compassion has been suppressed. What are the coping mechanisms of kind people in a power-driven world? And what is the fate of compassionate heroes?

05:30 – Molly dives into how empathic people have been programmed to be “harmless,” and the epigenetics of trauma.

08:41 – Why do dysfunctional systems of power work? Molly looks at reclaiming compassion and power, rejecting false narratives, and looking at opportunities for positive change. What does it mean to reclaim power – without apology?

13:56 – Join Molly for a quick action step you can do right now! This is a clarion call for those who know in their bones: “There’s something deeply wrong with how we’ve been taught to live – and something profoundly right about waking up.”

15:19 – Thanks for listening to We Are the Compassionate Revolution! If you love the show, please help support it at no cost to you: Follow or subscribe wherever you listen, rate it five stars, or write a happy review. See you next week and remember: Love is the way!