Lead with Empathy Sweatshirt

Price range: $29.95 through $42.05

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Some mornings you wake up already bracing for how much you’ll be holding for everyone else. On those days, this Lead with empathy sweatshirt can be the extra layer you pull on before you start holding space—for clients, students, family members, or the group you’re facilitating tonight. The words sit across your chest in a calm, grounded way, more like a gentle cue to yourself than a loud statement to anyone else. In a therapy office or counseling center, this mental health sweatshirt can quietly shape the room’s energy before anyone talks about intake forms, crises, or diagnoses.

When you’re a social worker walking into another home visit, a school counselor stepping into a hard meeting, or the friend who gets the late‑night vent texts, having that reminder against your skin can be one small thing that’s kind to you.

 

The fabric is soft and steady enough for long stretches at your desk, charting after session, or sitting in a folding chair during a support group where the stories feel heavier than the furniture looks. It doesn’t pretend to heal trauma or fix burnout, but it can act like a wearable boundary—something that says, “I’m choosing empathy, and I still get to have limits.” You might keep it nearby on the back of your office chair, in your car for the drive home after a hard shift, or next to the door so you can shrug into it before telehealth.

In supervision groups, team meetings, classrooms, and community spaces, this empathy crewneck becomes a quiet piece of advocacy, naming the kind of leadership you’re practicing without making anyone feel called out. However you wear it, it’s meant to be a small, steady companion for the parts of your life where you’re doing the brave, ordinary work of leading with care in an imperfect world.

 

S M L XL 2XL 3XL 4XL 5XL
Width, in 20.00 22.01 24.00 26.00 28.00 30.00 32.00 34.00
Length, in 27.00 28.00 29.00 30.00 31.00 32.00 33.00 34.00
Sleeve length (from center back), in 33.50 34.50 35.50 36.50 37.50 38.50 39.50 40.50
Size tolerance, in 1.50 1.50 1.50 1.50 1.50 1.50 1.50 1.50

 

Product features
– Tubular knit (no side seams) for a clean fit and less waste
– 50/50 cotton‑poly medium‑heavy fabric (8.0 oz/yd²) for durability and comfort
– Ribbed collar and double‑needle stitching for shape retention and long-lasting seams
– Embroidered chest (and optional wrist) placement with DTF/DTG printed inner labels
– OEKO‑TEX dyes, US cotton sourcing, and compliance with safety standards

Care instructions
– Machine wash: cold (max 30C or 90F)
– Non-chlorine: bleach as needed
– Tumble dry: low heat
– Do not iron
– Do not dryclean

 

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