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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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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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it was very informative, great book.

I enjoyed the book, I feel more comfortable now with my empathy. I suggest it to anyone who is sensitive.

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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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Important info for sensitive souls

loved it, explained so much about who I am, and I was amazed how much of this I was natural doing without knowing why.

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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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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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An Amazing Book

An Amazing Book I really like this Book.
it helps me a lot.
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Very informative

I would need to read and study the book and learn the strategies. Being sensitive to those around me is something I never understood and just assumed I was different.This book has been an eye opener.

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if you think you might be an empath

this is a book to understand yourself more.. if you think you're an empath..

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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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Story cuts off mid-sentence.

I enjoyed the book, although it got a little cooky with talks of talking to spirits and supernatural concepts that have no proof or evidence. Wasn't expecting that at all. The book also cuts off mid-sentence at the end, so I'm not sure how much of the book is left out. First time I've encountered that on Audible.

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