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...
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Ingrid Oliphant
- Feb 11, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 1 min
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, 2020
- 1 min
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, 2019
- 1 min
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, 2019
- 8 min
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, 2019
- 6 min
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, 2019
- 6 min
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, 2019
- 3 min
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, 2019
- 4 min
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, 2014
- 4 min
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, 2014
- 4 min
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, 2014
- 2 min
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, 2014
- 2 min
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, 2014
- 3 min
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...
