Tag: Empathy
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Able-Bodied Is a Temporary State of Being
A friend once told me that able-bodied is a temporary state of being. I didn’t fully understand it then. I do now—and it changed how I see accessibility, empathy, and every assumption I’d quietly made about who gets to move through the world with ease.
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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: 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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Those Fighting Battles Unseen
There’s a beautiful piece of advice that says we should be kind and compassionate towards everyone because everyone we meet is fighting a secret war. As a supervisor and small business owner, I have found this to be true. From the Bookshelf Unapologetically Happy — 23 lessons from a life reimagined, and your permission slip…
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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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Stepping Back from Grief When Possible
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Rising. Cho Seung Hui’s killing spree at Virginia Tech is riveting the nation in ways similar to 9/11 and Katrina, and me, I’m working hard to distance myself. I have good reason to. And this time, I don’t have to be close to the grief. Since…
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Still Bothered
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Love in the Third Degree. I’m still bothered with some of the Law of Attraction followers, to the point I’ve decided to remove myself from further contact with certain people. Their self-righteousness really, really grates on my nerves. I’d like to be able to discuss it and practice…
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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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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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Energetic Connections and Chakras
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Crimes to the Third Degree. If you’re not psychic, think Tesla. Think unified field theory. Think physics. Think energy patterns and maybe even satellite communications signals, which is what it’s most closely related to. If you are psychic, you’re with me already…. Or think of the mother-child bond…
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Lorna Meets the Lion-Boi
Okay. Well. So now I’m having visions. Not in the way you’d think, either. These start as a 2-dimensional visual flash and then I “step into them,” for lack of a better description. Sometimes I step into the person and feel their emotions; sometimes, I just observe. Last year, for my birthday, I got the…
