Emotional Survival

Amy Butcher was an accomplished college professor, mentor, and writer, but in her own home, she was embarrassed and emotionally burdened by an increasingly abusive relationship. Exhausted and terrified of the ways her partner’s behavior could escalate, Amy reached out to Instagram celebrity Joy “Mothertrucker” Wiebe. Joy was a 50-year-old wife and mother and the nation’s only female ice road trucker, a woman who maneuvered big rigs through the Alaskan wilderness along the deadliest road in America.

Do you often feel drained when spending time in public or with others? Do you somehow feel different from other people? Or do you get overly anxious for no apparent reason? These are just some of the symptoms that empaths and highly sensitive people are prone to feeling every day of their lives. Living life as an empath in modern society can be a real struggle for sensitive people. The constant bombardment of external stimulus and energy often leaves them feeling worn out.

From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and "greatly gifted and highly original artist" comes a masterful collection of stories about the timeless universal struggle to connect (New York Times). Joanna Scott, the critically acclaimed author of ten novels and two collections, turns her “incandescent...

Are you a highly sensitive individual? Than this guide is for you and will give you an in depth understanding of how to function as an empath navigating yourself in this turbulent world. Master your emotions in five simple steps!

Empath Learning is the guidebook every empath needs if they want to understand their abilities and embrace the things that make them unique. If you struggle to deal with overwhelming emotions and have no clue how or why they began, this comprehensive guidebook has all the answers you need. What you’re feeling isn’t an anomaly. For many people, it is a way of life. It’s the universe’s way of showing you just how deeply you’re connected to the people around you, and conversely, your connection to their emotions.

Tell me something. How does the word empath sound to you? Empath...say it in your head. Isolate it from every other thought and really say it. Feel every single syllable. Feel each sound that the word makes from start to finish, and think about how it really feels to you. Does it speak to you? Can you feel it say something, hint at something? Do you feel like there’s a very deep, underlying current to the word that goes beyond the everyday understanding of things, the mundane existence of life on this planet?

Empaths can be your best friend, or they can be your worst enemy. Empaths are the great people around you who feel and respond to things a little differently to most people. The physical empath will feel your pain, the emotional and intuitive empaths will feel your happiness and heartache as if it was their own, the dream empath will intuit meaning from your dreams, the plant empath will hear the needs of your plants, the earth empath will feel the needs and connectivity of the bigger picture in the earth, and the animal empath will understand why your Frou Frou is sad today.

The primary objective for the narcissist is power. Narcissists are masters of deceit and manipulation, so anyone can be made a victim and suffer abuse at their hands. Those that do are likely to develop some level of narcissistic abuse syndrome.

When we say the world needs healing we are talking in a more abstract form. Because the reality is, the world is made up of people, and it's the people who needs healing and love. No one is an island and no one should stand alone. We can't be rigid when there is so much pain and suffering in this world. People need to be comforted; they need to know that there is no reason that they should go it alone. People need to know that there are others in this world who cares for them if those people are strangers.

Abby doesn’t remember what happened the night she woke up in soot-stained clothes, lying next to a burning building with an unfamiliar boy at her side. But her connection with Sam is immediate and intense. And she has no one else: no family, no home, not even a last name. She and Sam start a new life, just the two of them, and Abby’s deliriously happy - until memories from her past begin to haunt her. And suddenly everything she’s learned to love turns sinister....

Then: Ever since Mabby died while picking beans in their garden - with the pock-a-pock of a helicopter overhead - Valkyrie knows what her job is: hide in the underground den with her brother, Bo, while Da is working, because Those People will kill them like coyotes. One Year Ago: Those People have come. It has to be them; because when Valkyrie and Bo return from a lesson of alert and ready, everything is on fire and Da is gone. But they‘ve been trained by their Da for this....