The Empath's Survival Guide

Life Strategies for Sensitive People

By: Judith Orloff

Narrated by: Pam Tierney

Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins

Publisher's summary

What Is the Difference Between Having Empathy and Being an Empath?

"Having empathy means our heart goes out to another person in joy or pain," says Dr. Judith Orloff. "But for empaths, it goes much further. We actually feel others' emotions, energy, and physical symptoms in our own bodies, without the usual defenses that most people have." The Empath's Survival Guide is an invaluable resource for empaths who want to develop coping skills in a high-stimulus world while embracing their gifts of intuition, compassion, creativity, and spiritual connection.

In this unabridged recording of The Empath's Survival Guide read by Pam Tierney, Dr. Orloff shares practical, empowering, and loving advice for supporting empaths through their unique challenges—and for loved ones to better understand an empath's needs and gifts. Here listeners will discover crucial practices, including:

• Exercises to identify where you are on the empathy spectrum
• Tools for protecting yourself from sensory overload, exhaustion, addictions, and compassion fatigue
• Effective strategies to stop absorbing stress and physical symptoms from others and protect yourself from narcissists and other energy vampires
• How to find the right work that feeds you
• How to navigate intimate relationships without feeling overwhelmed
• Guidance for parenting empathic children
• Awakening the empath’s gift of intuition and deepening your spiritual connection to all living beings

For any sensitive person who’s been told to "grow a thick skin," here is a guide for staying open while building resilience, exploring your singular gifts, and feeling welcomed by a world that desperately needs what you have to offer.

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©2017 Judith Orloff (P)2017 Sounds True

very helpful

This book gave me great insight and validation for my decision desires I have had over my life.

Life changer!

I finally have answers! I just ordered all of her other books and suggested readings.

Great book!

I loved it. I really recommend it. At first I was in doubt and it described me completely.

Excellent topic

I enjoyed learning about the survival guide and found the narrator helpful. (This is a test review)

amazing

I absolutely loved this book. I recommend it to so many of my clients already. Amazing tools.

Incredibly helpful

I wish I had read this book years ago. Explains so much about myself. I plan on buying the paperback to have as a reference.

Helpful and insightful guidance

I really enjoyed some of the insights throughout the book. I'm grateful for the tips and ideas!

Truly transformational

I feel equipped to step into my sensitivities and honor my emotions. Eye opening is an understatement.

An amazimg handbook for sensitive people

I struggled all my life with being sensitive until reading this book. My estranged parents and siblings criticized and abandoned me for vocalizing abuse as a child. They wanted me to be robotic like them but I couldn’t. I was told my problem is I’m too emotional. I work so hard to toughen up, but it never works. True insanity. After reading this book, I embrace my ability to feel deeply because I also can do that with joy and love. Instead of trying to learn to deal with energy vampires, I now know how to graciously set boundaries or avoid them. My life has quickly become grand! Thank you Dr. Judith Orloff. You are a true blessing to the world 💛✨😘

Trusted Resource for Navigating Day:Day as Empath

Great resource guide to listen to while driving. Can function as mini therapy or meditation sessions for developing healthy habits and honing self skills. There was repetion of points throughout the book. Chapter 10 seemed to be a final culmination of numbered strategy lists shared in earlier chapters. All in all, I am better off having listened to this book. Topics covered remind me I am not alone! I have and will continue to recommend.