Well, who is an empath? You, because something inside you led you here. Seriously. Some people reserve the term “empath” only for the highly intuitive and sensitive person who feels too much most all of the time and is pretty overwhelmed by it. That’s not the whole story, but there’s a good possibility that your […]
As part of my Somatic Experiencing training, I had to complete a certain number of personal SE sessions and consultations to make sure I was learning SE both from my own inside out and the outside in with my client work. Enter Dorothy One of those personal sessions was with a Training Assistant who could […]
This morning I lost it. Rage came pouring into me like a sudden tsunami hitting my shore. I yelled. I screamed. I slammed down my dishes filled with a lovely breakfast waiting to offer me morning fuel. It felt absolutely huge, and while I knew a good portion of it was my own fight response […]
You, because something inside you led you here. Seriously. Some people reserve the term “empath” only for the highly intuitive and sensitive person who feels too much most all of the time and is pretty overwhelmed by it. That’s not the whole story, but there’s a good possibility that your own highly perceptive nature is […]
If You Suffer From High Sensitivity to Perceived Disapproval… When you have hyper-sensitivity to what’s coming from other folks, it can sure activate a lot of turmoil in your system. And… While we will seriously work on this later on, this is a rather funny story about an important lesson that this individual and I […]
I would guess that many of us who are Empaths and Highly Sensitive People (HSP) have felt heavy and overloaded when sensing and helping process the more extreme acts of destruction and harm in the world. It is certainly important to take care of yourself when your empathic nature takes on the task of helping […]
This is an interesting and often challenging one, don’t you think? While Socrates (and many others) may have advised, well, “Know Thyself,” in practice I don’t always find it so easy. As an empath, I am always picking up “stuff” from other people. I am always scanning for “Is this mine, or is it not?” […]
Feeling overwhelmed by the distress in the world? I woke up early this morning, and trying to stay still so that my beloved could continue sleeping, I carefully picked up my phone and…(POOR CHOICE) started reading the news. Yeah, NOT the way to start one’s day. By the time she awoke, I was Awful Grumps […]