Why This Empath Loves Japan

On the morning of Trip #8 to Tokyo, I’m so excited. Bouncing out of bed as if today were a major world holiday! Which, of course it is, in my world.

Bouncing out of bed at 6 a.m. when my plane doesn’t leave until 12:45? As if this made a lot of sense!

Oh, but it does. Even though I really need every hour of comfortable reclining in an actual bed. Nobody, not even the coolest traveler outside of first class, emerges comfortably after 13 Read More »

True Empath Empowerment Vs. Strong Boundaries

All kinds of empaths talk with me:

• Skilled empaths
• Questing empaths trying to find out “Who am I?”
• Scared empaths, fleeing energy vampires and narcissists
• Despairing empaths who believe they are damaged forever
• Empaths who (mistakenly) think they know everything about how to be skilled because they now “pay attention to boundaries.”

Here I’d like to give some much-needed clarification to the whole empath-boundaries-protection issue.

WHAT IS AN EMPATH?

Most beginners believe that an empath feels other people’s feelings.

Well, that’s a piece of the puzzle. Maybe.

At best, this definition is incomplete and misleading. But at worst, this definition is completely inaccurate.

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