Tag: empath
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Quote about Empathy
From The Lost Teachings of Dead Monks by Lorna Tedder, a quote that captures Lilah’s gift for empathy and the burden of feeling others’ fears as her own.
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What It Is Wednesday: The Force Field Between Us
We’ve built a magnificent force field between us — one text, one message at a time. A meditation on digital intimacy, introversion, and the friendships we maintain without ever really seeing each other.
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What It Is Wednesday: Who Ya Gonna Call?
On the gift — and the cost — of being the person everyone calls at midnight. A personal essay on empathy, connection, and the quiet labor of caring without limit.
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Why the Bullying Pattern in My Life Re-Surfaced
When the same painful pattern of emotional manipulation resurfaces in your life, there’s a reason rooted in early programming. A raw, unflinching essay on recognizing the cycle — and why this time, everything changes.
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Seeing Clearly: Hidden Mental Illness in Men I’ve Loved
Would you beat this child with a stick? What’s done is done One more second chance would be enough Only on the brink can we see so clearly — “Nocturne, ” Tesseract How could I have been conscious on this planet for the last 50 years and not know I was swimming in poison? Born…
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Can Empaths Be Cruel? The Science of Evil and Its Effect on What I’m Writing
I’m glad I didn’t read Simon Baron-Cohen’s The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty before I began writing The Secret Lives of Librarians. Not that it’s a bad book. If I’d done more academic research into empathy, narcissism, and evil before beginning my novel, I might have tried to fit Lilah…
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The Metaphysical Energy of Oil: Earth my Body, Oil my Blood?
I’ve spent so much of the past month concerned about the effects of the Gulf Oil spill on my allergies and asthma that i didn’t notice the shift in the “energy” in the coastal environment where I live. Since I first smelled the wind-driven, gagging, petroleum smell from the controlled burns in the Gulf of…
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Barbara Walters, Psychics, and Public Ridicule
I think maybe Barbara Walters owes “dangerous” psychic James Van Praagh an apology, but that’s mostly because—as an empath—I’ve worn Van Praagh’s shoes. I know what it’s like to be ridiculed for sending someone to get medical help. If you’re not familiar with the inciting incident, it happened on Barbara Walter’s TV show, The View,…
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I Am So Fucked but Let Me Document It Lest I Forget or Don’t Believe It Later
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Passion to the Third Degree. Is it going to be like this with every man I form a connection with? And I’m not talking about sex. This did happen with my no-sex-but-really-wanted-to guy and did not happen, for example, with the boy I was with a while back.…
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Results of Yesterday’s Directed Energy Experiment
To all of you who participated in yesterday’s experiment, thank you! I’d promised I would share what I noted. Many of my readers are energy workers or, at least, have a working knowledge of how to manipulate energy. Others are simply kind-hearted people who are in a similar place in their lives and find it…
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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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Meditative Work: Dream Boy’s Weekly Visit
He prefers Saturday mornings, when I’m meditating. This week, lighter, more social, learning something new. And the old gatekeeper is back — the woman who used to keep us separated. Why now?
