• The Empath's Survival Guide

  • Life Strategies for Sensitive People
  • By: Judith Orloff
  • Narrated by: Pam Tierney
  • Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (1,547 ratings)

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The Empath's Survival Guide

By: Judith Orloff
Narrated by: Pam Tierney
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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.

©2017 Judith Orloff (P)2017 Sounds True

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

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

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Great book!

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

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Excellent topic

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

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amazing

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

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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.

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Helpful and insightful guidance

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

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Truly transformational

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

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WOW! Thank you. This should be mandatory Reading

I 've listened to over 200 self help books. I just wish this was the 1st one. It should be mandatory Reading for DOCTORS understanding EMPATHs would illuminate Years of wrong diagnoses and suffering. ENERGY medicine is the hope of the future. Bless you Doctor for sharing this. Teachers should understand this instead of ADHD labeling and medicating. This could replace the broken mental health system if people could grasp the EVERYTHING is vibrations and learn to feel them.

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Newfound Empathy

My name is Marcus Ray Dillon and I recent came to the realization that I was an empath. My life is the testimony of a sensitive child who never fit in but mostly one who got sick from the negative energies of people.

I have had several nervous breakdowns living a wayward life until someone let me know I was an empath. I am very thankful for this book and look forward to being part of a very special community.

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