The Empath's Survival Guide: Life Strategies for Sensitive People (Unabridged)
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Publisher Description
What Is the Difference Between Having Empathy and Being an Empath?
"Having empathy means our heart goes out to another person in joy or pain," says Dr. Judith Orloff. "But for empaths, it goes much further. We actually feel others' emotions, energy, and physical symptoms in our own bodies, without the usual defenses that most people have." The Empath's Survival Guide is an invaluable resource for empaths who want to develop coping skills in a high-stimulus world while embracing their gifts of intuition, compassion, creativity, and spiritual connection.
In this unabridged recording of The Empath's Survival Guide read by Pam Tierney, Dr. Orloff shares practical, empowering, and loving advice for supporting empaths through their unique challenges—and for loved ones to better understand an empath's needs and gifts. Here listeners will discover crucial practices, including:
Exercises to identify where you are on the empathy spectrum
Tools for protecting yourself from sensory overload, exhaustion, addictions, and compassion fatigue
Effective strategies to stop absorbing stress and physical symptoms from others and protect yourself from narcissists and other energy vampires
How to find the right work that feeds you
How to navigate intimate relationships without feeling overwhelmed
Guidance for parenting empathic children
Awakening the empath’s gift of intuition and deepening your spiritual connection to all living beings
For any sensitive person who’s been told to "grow a thick skin," here is a guide for staying open while building resilience, exploring your singular gifts, and feeling welcomed by a world that desperately needs what you have to offer.
Customer Reviews
Worthwhile, but repetitive
I got something out of this, but not as much as I had hoped for. There's support, encouragement for being true to your empath self, and some useful tools.
I wish there had been more, but at the end of the day, it really comes down to allowing yourself to be who you are, setting limits with other people, and practicing radical self car.
In a society that lauds extroverts, it's hard being a highly sensitive person and an empath. As one herself, Dr. Orloff has the required credibility to write of the struggles and successes.
I liked the quiz, though I imagine it's available for free online.
Dr. Orloff is down to earth, straightforward, understanding, and honest, all of which I deeply respect and value.
Would not recommend
I thought I’m getting a scientific explanation of my sensitivities and how to control them, not how to imagine a shield in front of me and my “heart energy” when I’m overwhelmed. Definitely not for me. I didn’t buy this book to get tips on what to take to the airport. Complete waste of money and time.
I’m finally accepting that it’s ok to be an empath.
This book helped me to embrace who I am & gave very practical guidance to help with my sensitivities. I recommend this to all sensitive people trying to live in this overwhelming world without shutting out the essence of who you are.