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Have You Had Too Much People Contact?

Can you relate to this? Scenario 1 You work intensely with people all day. It is 6:00 (of course you don’t get out right at 5!) and you have got to hit the road home. But a neighbor/co-worker needs a ride home today with you. So you don’t even get that alone time before you […]

Handling What Is “Too Big” to Handle

Trauma warning: This post references recent violent incidents in the U.S. If you have a personal history with violence and easily feel activated and retraumatized, you may wish to skip reading this post. My heart is in such pain! I find the daily news that greets me each morning lands with a heavy thud […]

Resilience…Healing Through Love

The day after I wrote that last blog post, Handling What Is Too Hard To Handle, I drove to Barre, Massachusetts to join our 12-member faculty supporting close to 40 survivors and family members of mass shootings at the first Healing Through Love retreat. Initiated by folks from the Parkland community in Florida, the participants […]

When the World Wears You Down

A therapist (we’ll call her Lucretia) who uses her empathic skills a lot in her work complains of being tired all of the time. She says, “The world wears me down.” She notes her existential dilemma—feeling she doesn’t always fit in the world, not feeling understood, questioning if this work is right for her. Yet […]

Dealing With Toxic People

Toxic People. Ugh. We will encounter toxic people, no matter how strong, differentiated, empathic, or perceptive we are at sniffing out toxicity from far away. At work, in our families, among our neighbors and acquaintances, in our spiritual communities…in short, anywhere we go. And when you are a super sensitive person, someone’s toxicity can creep […]

How Does an Empath Handle the Climate Crisis?

OK, first, my own disclaimer on this: I am still finding my way, as you must be if you have truly taken in the disaster building from humans’ abuse of our home. Even if someone takes the attitude of “Not my problem, just keep it in your own backyard,” that doesn’t work when it comes […]

The Empath’s Challenge

I frequently ask folks who identify as Empaths and Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) about what has been really hard for them in the last month. Here’s an issue I hear a lot, and my thoughts in response. THE PROBLEM: With the rancor occurring in our political systems (and not just in the U.S.), many of […]

Forest Fires at Your Boundaries

An empath I know, let’s call her Imani, was at a laundromat doing the big washing of her pillows and blankets. You know how that requires some waiting time—all of those cycles running their course. You’re up and down, but there is a lot of sitting to be done too. A man came up to […]

Compassionate Thanks

Here in the U.S. we are coming into a holiday week—Thanksgiving. Now there are various tales about the origins of this holiday that omit “the rest of the story” in their telling. Digging into the history of the arrival of the early European settlers reveals the false narrative of the easy sharing of bounty between […]

Giving My Thanks to You!

This is my favorite holiday here in the US—Thanksgiving. I love Thanksgiving. I love the warmth of being home, being with people I love, reflecting on anything and everything that I am blessed to have in my life. I love the food—carb heaven with the dressing, the potatoes, the desserts—oh, yes, and the other […]

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