True Empath Empowerment Vs. Strong Boundaries
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.


To solve the special problems that empaths have with spotting narcissists and protecting themselves from narcissists, let’s begin with some definitions. (If you already know these definitions, scroll down to our fun examples of enabling ”Pat the Narcissist.”) 