My darling empath, you cannot separate yourself from the fabric you are part of. There is no shield, bubble or cloak. The route of...

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...

There are so many people describing the near-anxiety they have before telephone and video calls and the fatigue afterwards. If you are...

Have you ever felt a piece of knowledge slide across your skin? Slippery, like that little something or other that won’t come off the tip...

Dear Empath, The more you try to ‘protect’ yourself, the more harm you’re causing yourself. Please stop and choose, instead, to pay...

Here’s how my experience with Walmart changed and subsequently changed me. I’ve never been a fan of the place myself but in 2011, I...

Mindfulness brings to light experience in its pure immediacy. It reveals the object as it is before it has been plastered over with...

“Walmart is the seventh level of hell” ~ a few hundred empaths “We live a story that originates in our autonomic state, is sent through...

Inserting ‘empath’ or ‘highly sensitive people’ into your favorite search engine and the resultant 7 million bits of information floating...

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...

You have no idea You have no idea your desire to retreat is merely your fear of meeting yourself in another. You have no idea that your...

Does it feel foolish to you, impossible even, that your ‘feeling too much’ isn’t that at all? Can you, even the tiniest of moments...

The avoidance is There is a new, perhaps renewed, ‘depth’ of raw feeling within many and a deep desire to express it. As if, the...

There are three reasons for my recent posts about empaths. First, I’ve a class called the Empowered Empath beginning October 4.  Second,...

“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...

Myth:  Empaths need to ground themselves No, they don’t. By now, I’ve worked with a few hundred empaths.  More than ninety percent feel...

Myth:  Empaths take on other people’s emotions and illnesses Truth:  Empaths do not absorb other people’s shit.  We feel it.  Period.  ...

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...

Myth number one:  All psychic empaths are empathetic. Notsomuch.  Being an empath simply means one can feel other energies–here we’re...

This post is inspired by interwebz discussion last Monday following Twelve Years A Slave winning the Academy Award for Best Picture. I...