Empathy vs. Sympathy

Hoo boy! I’m in trouble now. Because I strongly disagree with Brené Brown on her distinction between empathy and sympathy. To me, she’s making a semantic argument; that is, she’s defining these two terms in ways that serve her message but don’t really hold water. It seems that, for Brené, expressions of sympathy always begin with “At least….” As in, “My…