THE PEACEMAKER

When alcohol, drugs or family conflict turned your parent into someone unpredictable, you became the family's emotional thermostat 🌡️—constantly adjusting yourself to keep everyone else comfortable. You learned to sense tension before it erupted and became incredibly skilled at smoothing over conflicts and managing everyone's feelings 🕊️.

Your ability to create peace and make others feel heard is a genuine superpower that people deeply appreciate ❤️. Yet this comes with a heavy cost 💰—you now feel responsible for everyone else's emotional temperature, automatically stepping in to fix problems that aren't yours to solve. You carry guilt and anxiety whenever others are upset, as if their feelings are somehow a reflection of your failure to keep the peace.