Empath: A Psychologist’s Emotional Healing and Survival Guide for Empaths and Highly Sensitive People - Overcome Fears and Develop Your Gift

By Alex C. Wolf

Are you tired of getting overwhelmed during highly emotional situations? Do you struggle to remain as clearheaded and logical as possible when faced with stressful confrontations with people?

If Yes, then this book is for you.

Being an empath in today's world can be challenging to say the least. Between the constant barrage of emotional stimulus from dealing with people in real life and social media, it's easy for normal people to become inundated with the energy that people put into the world.

For empaths, however, it can quickly turn into a nightmare because of their sensitivity, leading them to view this special ability to pick up on the emotions of others as a curse instead of a magnificent gift.

In this insightful guide, Alex Wolf lucidly explains why you behave the way you do and equips you the tools you need to face the challenges of being an empath while also helping you nurture and develop your special gift to enable live a full life.

Here's a snippet of what you're going to discover in Empath:

• A checklist to find out if you or someone you know is an empath
• How to get started on the path to self-acceptance if you're an empath
• Feeling out of place or like you don't belong? You're going to find seven tips to help you regain self-confidence
• How to deal with the impostor syndrome that is often common with empaths
• Step-by-step instructions on dealing with emotional overload and burnout
• Breaking out of the vicious cycle of negativity that sensitive people are often prone to
• Three types of empaths and how to identify your type
• No-nonsense meditation guide designed specifically for empaths
• ...and tons more!

Deeply profound and highly practical, Empath is the ultimate survival guide designed for highly sensitive people to help them embrace their unique gift, learn how to effectively deal with emotional vampires and thrive in a harsh and unforgiving world.
 

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Alex C. Wolf
• Release date: Sep 3, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393809982

Book preview

Introduction

Are you often told that you are simply too sensitive, too thin-skinned, or too meek for this harsh world? Do you feel alone, especially in large crowds? Do you feel as if you soak up the emotions of people around you like a sponge, taking those feelings, and feeling them as your own?  Perhaps, most importantly: do you feel like there’s something separating you emotionally from your peers or loved ones?

If you answered affirmatively to any of the above questions, you’re likely an empath! You see the feelings of others and take them in, assimilate them into your own heart. Being an empath is tough work; especially before you learn how to harness your abilities and let them blossom. But what after you learned to take advantage of your ability? Empaths are powerful people that are capable of truly amazing things.

This book will cover a large amount of material pertaining to the potential causes of developed over-empathy, as well as how to cope with your feelings and be able to control them more effectively. Some of the previously mentioned material may be sensitive, such as—in very vague and brief terms—discussing trauma, substance abuse, anxiety disorders, and the like. This book may not be for you if you are extremely uncomfortable with any of those topics.

This book is written for those who feel as if they struggle to fit in and find a place in the scary world they’re surrounded with. It’s a guide for individuals who identify themselves as empaths, or highly sensitive people that want to know more about the world of empaths, and perhaps, to learn more about themselves. It could also, of course, be for those who simply want to learn more about empathy and the way it affects us as people individually, as well as a society.

In this book, you’ll find information on empaths, telltale signs that someone you know might be an empath, and ways to come to terms with your emotional state, as well as several methods of compromising with your feelings without shutting down or bottling up your feelings. Although this book may be daunting, taking emotional healing and learning one step at a time, like most things, yields the longest lasting and emotionally healthiest results.

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Chapter One: In Your Shoes

Most days, if not every day, we experience a pang in our heart every time we see someone in pain. Whether it’s someone we love, someone we trust or have known all our lives, or a complete stranger, we feel a certain something in our chest when we see someone struggling or in despair. It’s a feeling that’s familiar to most humans, a feeling that unifies us as humans. And yet, it seems to be one of those feelings we all observe, but scarcely analyze. Maybe that’s because it seems to be too vague of an emotion, barely qualifying as an emotion at all. After all, that pang isn’t necessarily good or bad, simply a feeling.

This powerful feeling is easily identifiable as empathy, something possible in all humans, debatably barring those individuals with antisocial personalities. Empathy can be simply defined as the ability, or rather the act, of putting yourself in someone else’s shoes; being able to relate to another person’s emotions and feeling them as if you were in their very situation. Some of us have very high empathy while some of us have a desperate lack of it. There’s a middle ground to be found, but we very scarcely seem to find it.

People begin to develop their sense of empathy early on, around ages 3 to 5, when our children begin to see the world as a place full of things that are all alive and feeling things, just like them. From this sense of camaraderie and kinship, empathy is born. A small child often picks up a rock or a leaf, or even a bug, names it, ask to take it home, and take care of it. Around this age, children begin to develop their senses of affection and compassion for other things, living or not. Fostering these senses is highly important to the cause of nurturing the kind and caring way children grow up to see the world.

This sense of empathy may begin to be challenged when a child reaches adolescence. Teenagers are usually characterized by pop culture as being angsty and having no respect for the people around them, being apathetic, violent, and other things that assert the notion that teens are not something to be cared for, but to be controlled. In reality, the opposite is often true. During the teenage years, children often show the most compassion toward things, whether it be with their peers or a pill bug on the sidewalk. Although during puberty, adolescents go through a phase where they are almost entirely self-centered, teenagers are among the most compassionate demographics of people, as well as some of the most benevolent and curious. Teens are not necessarily at a spiteful or vindictive age; they’re at an age where they are desperate to discover themselves, where their niche in society is, and what exactly they have to do in this great, big, and unknown world.

While the brain doesn’t quite mature until the age of 25, we can see evidence of how empathetic a child might turn out when they reach adulthood in the very early phases of their development. As I mentioned before, almost all children go through some stage where their sense of compassion for the world around them comes into full bloom. They see the world in a new light, in which all the things that they interact with are alive and need to be taken care of, whether it be their younger sibling or a pebble on the road. A child who is shown to be very expressive about these feelings as a child will likely grow up to be an empathetic and caring person. Someone who exhibits disinterest in this phenomenon may grow up to be an adult with low empathy. Of course, being someone with low empathy does not equate to being a bad person, or even being cold. Our level of empathy is, to an extent, ingrained within us, but there are always many other things that can factor into how a child’s sense of empathy is nurtured as they age.

For example, a child that undergoes trauma will likely recede from their empathy, much like an adult in a similar situation. They may not be able to understand what exactly happened, but they know that it hurts them to think about it or express their emotions about it, so they may regress emotionally. Not every case is the same, and some children may actually experience the opposite effect entirely, empathizing to what may be an unhealthy extent with other things to cope with the traumatic event. Children that undergo trauma and do not properly heal psychologically from it may grow up to be adults who display abnormally low levels of empathy, have attachment issues, or things of the like. Additionally,