May 18th, 2009 by Rose Rosetree
Could I be an empath? That’s a first step in Empath Empowerment. Here’s a quiz I developed to help you, adapting a quiz for Highly Sensitive Persons developed by Dr. Elaine Aron.
Are you already a Skilled Empath? Then this quiz may serve to remind you of how far you’ve come.
Empath Empowerment isn’t something you can learn from any blog post or two. Could you learn to ride a bicycle that way? Read More »
November 10th, 2008 by Rose Rosetree
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 »
September 13th, 2008 by Rose Rosetree
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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