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  • Life Strategies for Sensitive People
  • Written by: Judith Orloff
  • Narrated by: Pam Tierney
  • Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (164 ratings)

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The Empath's Survival Guide

Written by: Judith Orloff
Narrated by: Pam Tierney
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Publisher's Summary

What Is the Difference Between Having Empathy and Being an Empath?

"Having empathy means our heart goes out to another person in joy or pain," says Dr. Judith Orloff. "But for empaths, it goes much further. We actually feel others' emotions, energy, and physical symptoms in our own bodies, without the usual defenses that most people have." The Empath's Survival Guide is an invaluable resource for empaths who want to develop coping skills in a high-stimulus world while embracing their gifts of intuition, compassion, creativity, and spiritual connection.

In this unabridged recording of The Empath's Survival Guide read by Pam Tierney, Dr. Orloff shares practical, empowering, and loving advice for supporting empaths through their unique challenges—and for loved ones to better understand an empath's needs and gifts. Here listeners will discover crucial practices, including:

  • Exercises to identify where you are on the empathy spectrum
  • Tools for protecting yourself from sensory overload, exhaustion, addictions, and compassion fatigue
  • Effective strategies to stop absorbing stress and physical symptoms from others and protect yourself from narcissists and other energy vampires
  • How to find the right work that feeds you
  • How to navigate intimate relationships without feeling overwhelmed
  • Guidance for parenting empathic children
  • Awakening the empath’s gift of intuition and deepening your spiritual connection to all living beings

For any sensitive person who’s been told to "grow a thick skin," here is a guide for staying open while building resilience, exploring your singular gifts, and feeling welcomed by a world that desperately needs what you have to offer.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

©2017 Judith Orloff (P)2017 Sounds True

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Wow. Total new-age paranormal drivel.

I honestly thought I would love this book. I am a sensitive person and am greatly affected by the feelings of others, so I thought this book would be full of practical tips to hone my personality in a positive way, based on real science. I gave this book a real chance, even after she started talking about how empathetic people can talk to plants. But when she started saying spouses can realize the benefits of their partners' yoga practice from across the city and that we should reject real medicine and take holistic medicines ... I just couldn't continue on. If you have an ounce of rationality in your body, pass on this one. How this woman can continue to call herself an MD is beyond me.

The narrator doesn't really sound like she believes it either.

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EXTREMELY insightful and helpful.

If you're an empath, or suspect that you are, this book will help you in countless ways. It was full of helpful tools, and helped me accept myself, and not hate that I'm an empath anymore. I will be immediately buying a hard copy to read.

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Game Changing

This book has been so enlightening for me, definitely a missing puzzle piece. Recommend to all addicts alcoholics or victims of narcissistic abuse.

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I Was amazed by the amount of information shared in this book about what empaths really are and the different types and perhaps more important how to deal with being so sensitive because of the gifts being a empath is and also the curses.

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Loved this audible book!

I learned a lot about how I can help myself to protect my energy without getting overwhelmed. It helped me to learn what type of Empath I am and what it all involves. The best audible book I have heard so far!

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It is easier to be an empath now!

It is easier to be an empath now! I loved this book! If I new before...

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Exactly what I needed!

The few tips I read here have already changed my life. Will be re-reading soon!

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Too much baseless psudoscience

I wanted to learn how to set better boundaries for myself and utilize my personality traits, but im not learning that from someone that thinks not believing in telepathy, talking to "the other side", and talking to animals is "overly intellectual". Sure, im the idiot for not accepting bad faith....

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loved it

I gained a greater understanding of myself and my children through the knowledge this book shared. I'd recommend reading it :)

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Excellent!!

Thank you..... I have always been told I was an empath. I did not fully comprehend what that meant. Reading this now has answered a lot of questions I had and helped me to better understand who I am.

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