Category: Empaths
Articles for and about empaths — the highly sensitive among us who feel what others feel, often without warning. These posts explore what it means to live as an empath, how to protect your energy, the everyday challenges and gifts of the work, and the deeper currents of empath identity that show up in real life and in fiction.
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Sad Revelations
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Love in the Third Degree. Sometimes it takes a while for confirmation to show up. That’s often such a long time that most of us decide our intuition was dead wrong and we should just forget all about it. Or not. Sometimes it stays with us, in the…
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Energetic Leashes
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Love in the Third Degree. As I was finishing dinner with the girls a few nights ago at a nice little Italian restaurant, something hit me in the pit of my stomach. A wave of energy, direct to my third chakra. I’d been doing pretty good for the…
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Energies, Exponentially
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Love in the Third Degree. Some connections are harder than others to break, particularly when you don’t really want to break them. Both parties have to want to. Otherwise, you just keep re-attaching and feeling the other’s pain. I’ve noted that with a number of people in the…
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“Much Male Energy in Your Home”
This is not what I’d hoped! Several weeks ago, AngelSu mentioned to me that I was going to have a lot of male energy in my home in October…just men all around me. I think I probably raised an eyebrow, like “Yeah, right” or “When would I have time right now to socialize?” But she…
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Hump Day Musings
I’m not sure where the term “hump day” originated but I first heard it as a teen. The idea of Wednesday being Hump Day and getting over the “hump” of the week and towards the weekend was quite appealing. I’ve been a bit impatient this week. Not heavily, but enough for me to notice. I…
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Angry, Jealous, and Looking for the Lesson
I cannot identify the emotion that has me in a quandary. You’d think, considering everything I’ve been through in my life, that I’d know all my own emotions by now. But whatever this is comes with the agitation of a two-year-old discovering emotions for the first time or a teen first hit with…
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The Empath’s Paradox
As an empath, I like that I can have that kind of connection to people I care about. With my girls, it’s really an advanced form of maternal instinct or bonding. I’ll often know when one of my kids is upset or stressed, even before Shannon swears she’s fine or Aislinn gives me her patented…
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Sharing Visual Gifts
I went back and tried to re-create the orby thing on in a photo, but couldn’t. I took dozens of pics from the same spot, same angle, same lighting, same everything. Nothing. Visible only in this one photo, which was the first I took. I also, thinking maybe it was humidity, took several pics outside…
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Mine for Now, Orbs and All
I have no idea how long I’m to be in this house before hurricanes drive me out, my job goes away, or I just get too painfully tired of my more repairs that must be done, but for while I’m here, it’s my sanctuary. For all the things that need replacing and repairing, I’m not…
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Never Again the Burned Times
Arghhhhhh! One thing I get so freaking tired of is when any man from my ancient past—no matter how well or unwell we knew each other—gets dumped by a wife, girlfriend, or whatever, he tries to re-engage with me. Notice I say “tries to.” But I’ll put that on my wishlist. I understand if a…
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“Mommy, Thanks for the Food Money….”
According to Dane Cook’s character in Employee of the Month, the Universe has a plan. Okay, so the movie wasn’t big on profound snippets, but it had a few, the best being his grandmother’s advice on kissing the girl. The movie was quite predictable but fun nevertheless, and of course, Dane Cook is easy on…
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Snip, Snip, Snip
Part of my mentor’s role is to help me identify bad habits and replace them with good ones. That could as easily be patterns I’m replacing. Or programming. In any case, it’s a new way of thinking and new patterns to follow in my doing. One thing I’ve discovered in my new mindset that is…
