Category: Empathy
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Empath: The Best Personality Type to Marry
Question: What is the best personality to marry if you are an empath? Someone who is emotionally healthy. That is, of course, the ideal answer for everyone, empath or not, but as an empath, you do have special needs and the last thing you want is to … This post has been incorporated into my…
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The Empath Superpower of Saving Someone
Empaths possess a unique gift for saving someone through their profound sensitivity, navigating a world filled with emotional currents and challenges. All it takes is once, and you’re hooked. It’s another hour before dawn and you wake with the strangest, awfullest feeling that something is wrong with someone you love. You feel their fear, their…
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Questions from Readers: Empaths, Dysfunctional Families, and Insomnia
To save time and share information more efficiently, I’ve decided to answer some of the questions I’m asked via email and my Facebook fan page, provided I can answer in a few words to a few sentences. If not, I may devote an entire post to a question. I’m often surprised at what people ask–and…
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The Relationship Between Empaths and Narcissists
Exploring the complex dynamics between empaths and narcissists reveals a fascinating interplay of emotional depth and surface-level self-absorption. For some reason, empaths and narcissists have become hot keyword searches for this website, no doubt because I’ve so often talked about my dealings with empaths (the real kind that feel others’ feelings) and narcissists (the real…
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“I’d Rather Hate your Guts than Believe my Intuition”
Photo credit by bloody marty mix; creative commons license. Intuition is a funny thing. Most people never trust theirs. Sure, later–after they’ve been mugged–they talk about the icky feeling they ignored because they didn’t want anyone to think they were silly or illogical. I’ve heard the same sooooooo many times from women who were certain…
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Capturing Souls in Photographs
The eyes are the windows of the soul, indeed! Yes, her eyes really are that color and those are lichens on the ground in this beautiful natural setting. Photo copyright by Aislinn Bailey, AisPortraits.com, Niceville, Florida Some cultures believe (or did initially) that a photographer could steal your soul if he took pictures…
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Psychic Connections Know No Bounds
Photo credit by alicepopkorn; creative commons license Can you feel psychic connections across time and space? As in, can I connect with someone from 2 years ago or from 2 years from now? I don’t know. I haven’t been able to, at least not much. Or have I just never really thought about what’s also…
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Empathic Abilities and Connections: “The Feeling”
The unseen world around us is like this web except made of energy. Photo credit: Automania; creative commons license. Empathy, empathic abilities, and what I call “energetic connections” (or emotional connections) between people are all about feeling what someone else is feeling. Some of us empaths, or “highly sensitive people,” have these abilities more than…
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Losing the Sense of Abundance: How Relationships (Even Great Ones) Can Hinder a Prosperity Mindset
For many of us–especially those of us raised in an environment of real or imagined scarcity–getting into a mindset of abundance and prosperity is a real milestone on our spiritual journey. Reaching that peak is a true celebration, yet we can fall off that peak and back onto a pit of impoverished feelings rather quickly…if…