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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Making Sense of Tragedy
All week, Shannon’s been excited about going to a 15th birthday party tomorrow night. She won’t be going now. Today, the birthday girl committed suicide. Shannon’s turning everything over in her head right now, trying to wrap her mind around it and apologizes for not being able to let it go long enough to…
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Wicker Man Remake: Good, Bad, and Ugly
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I loved the original Wicker Man with Edward Woodward. Given that it’s a pagan horror classic that’s low on gore and high on mystery and inspiration, I was anxious to see the remake when I first heard about it a few years back. I mean, with paganism out of the closet in 2006 (vs 1973),…
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Riding with the Angel of Death
I couldn’t help but cringe. I did not want to get on the elevator with this man. Normally, I don’t mind being around him at all, but today, I just wanted to run away, to get away, to be as far away from him as possible. From the Bookshelf Shielding Techniques for Empaths — practical…
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Intuition Experiment
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Curves. My intuition’s been telling me something disturbing about some people who keep mucking around in my life and refuse to leave me alone. I haven’t been able to prove it but I could “feel” it. And you know how weary I get of people discounting…
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What’s Real: Same Question as So Often Before, Different Angle
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in *Third Degree Curves.* A colleague has reprimanded me for acting on intuition rather than fact, even though the results were dead-on. She says I need to go with what’s “real.” But what’s “real” isn’t necessarily what’s true. What’s “real” isn’t even what can be verified by scientific fact…
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Conversations While Dozing
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Curves. I’m half dozing but my mind is going like crazy. It just never stops. The emotions I feel are jumping all over the place, and I can’t get a fix on any of them for very long at a time. It’s someone else’s emotions, that’s…
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Shields Up!
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Curves. Twice now, I’ve passed a traffic accident where people died and I felt the energies so intensely. I knew, just knew. Today, I left work early to take Shannon to the bank to get cash to buy a car. I got caught in a storm,…
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Did You Feel That?
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Curves. I’m a nervous empath today. I don’t like this feeling. Something’s going on today, something that built up to a fever pitch around 3 PM. It’s still going strong. But I don’t know what. It doesn’t affect any changes today. I know that much. From…
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Play Me
Under a dark moon, I finished some spiritual work with a friend but in the process of saying goodnight, she pulled up a very old fear of mine. It was a simple phrase that I was not expecting and a feeling that I’m desperately trying to track back to its origins and slay. “Good night,…
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Course Corrections
I have a new way of looking at things that go wrong. I’m looking at them now as “course corrections.” These can be simple things like the behavior of a server at a favorite family restaurant might be taken as a sign not to return-ever. Or some underhanded dealings that are very minor may end…
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Personal Angels
My muse has stirred. She’s filled with the most unusual daydreams today, reminders of rituals performed and aid sent at the request of good friends, and she’s urging me to write songs that, on this Full Moon night, I have no music to. Yet. But I will…. “A Witch If You Want”…
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Loving the Chase
Sometimes people behave a certain way. It doesn’t matter how nice we are to them, they run from us, whether it’s out of habit or from being penned up. They scamper off in the other direction as fast as they can go, and you’re left wondering why. Last time they nuzzled your hand and licked…
