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Ingrid Oliphant
Feb 17, 20212 min read
No Path, No Way: Perfect
Photo by Rob Wicks “This focus of ‘inward path’ and ‘outward path’ is as limiting a belief as any. As if one is more ‘righteous’ or...


Ingrid Oliphant
Feb 11, 20213 min read
Another Truth about Suicide
photo by Barry Weatherall via Unsplash So. Here we are. Today is Thursday. All day long. I began the day with rhinos knocking on the...


Ingrid Oliphant
Sep 16, 20203 min read
Marriage, no Proposal
On Thursday, February 9, 2017, I was minding my own business with Bastest and yogifying to work out the kinks remaining from Standing...


Ingrid Oliphant
May 31, 20201 min read
My Darling Empath
My darling empath, you cannot separate yourself from the fabric you are part of. There is no shield, bubble or cloak. The route of...


Ingrid Oliphant
Apr 21, 20201 min read
Corona-Inspired Empath Myth-Tip #2
Like the other gift that keeps on giving, it can cause great unseen harm and reinforces fears and trauma response. It is this: “you are...
Ingrid Oliphant
Aug 3, 20191 min read
Dear Empath
Dear Empath, The more you try to ‘protect’ yourself, the more harm you’re causing yourself. Please stop and choose, instead, to pay...
Ingrid Oliphant
Apr 18, 20198 min read
The Empath and Walmart, Part 2
Mindfulness brings to light experience in its pure immediacy. It reveals the object as it is before it has been plastered over with...
Ingrid Oliphant
Apr 16, 20196 min read
The Empath and Walmart; Part 1
“Walmart is the seventh level of hell” ~ a few hundred empaths “We live a story that originates in our autonomic state, is sent through...
Ingrid Oliphant
Apr 4, 20196 min read
My Own Experience as an Empath–beyond the bullshit: Part 3
Inserting ‘empath’ or ‘highly sensitive people’ into your favorite search engine and the resultant 7 million bits of information floating...
Ingrid Oliphant
Mar 25, 20193 min read
Exploring All Things Empath–beyond the bullshit: Part 2
If you missed the introduction to this deep dive, you may want to read this first. At the end of the introduction, there are links to my...
Ingrid Oliphant
Mar 22, 20194 min read
Undoing Some Empath Bullshit
See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?” ~ Buddha One of the reasons I began the empath myth-busting task...
Ingrid Oliphant
Aug 26, 20144 min read
The Importance of Being an Empath
There are three reasons for my recent posts about empaths. First, I’ve a class called the Empowered Empath beginning October 4. Second,...
Ingrid Oliphant
Aug 26, 20144 min read
Mind over Myth; Illness and the Empath
“If we’re not actually absorbing other people’s shit, how is it those empaths have all those illnesses?” Well, honey, I am so glad you...
Ingrid Oliphant
Aug 16, 20142 min read
Thirty traits of being an Empath
Myth: There are 30 Traits of Being an Empath or Symptoms of Being an Empath No. There is only one trait that identifies one as an...
Ingrid Oliphant
Aug 14, 20142 min read
Not all Empaths are Empathetic, Some are just Ath-holes
Myth number one: All psychic empaths are empathetic. Notsomuch. Being an empath simply means one can feel other energies–here we’re...
Ingrid Oliphant
Mar 17, 20143 min read
On Compassion for Self and Fear of Feeling
This post is inspired by interwebz discussion last Monday following Twelve Years A Slave winning the Academy Award for Best Picture. I...

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