What is an Empath?
Put simply, an Empath is a person who absorbs other people’s emotions and experiences these emotions as if they were their own.
Empathic people are extremely sensitive to the emotional energy of those around them and as a result, tend to commonly experience energetic overload in the form of fatigue, anxiety, and depression.
However, despite the tendency to “soak up” the energy of other beings, Empaths are highly compassionate, loving, intuitive, and insightful people.
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Ever since I was young I have had close friends or relatives visit me in dreams. I can also feel ghosts when they are around or certain feelings of old homes, buildings and even gravesites. I was a hospice nurse for years and had too many spiritual experiences to count. Most of the time I feel everything others are feeling.. to a point that I became burned out as an RN. I always put others needs before my own and one day I started to get sick and it went downhill from there. I had no energy to help others anymore because I wasn’t taking care of myself. I have still had many experiences but I started to try and ignore them. I always thought something was wrong with me. I considered “my gifts” a curse and blocked them or ran from them. I didn’t understand why it was me for a long time. Only recently someone told me I was an empath and to be honest I had no clue what that was. When I started reading about empaths my entire life started to make sense but it makes me sad because I learned these defense mechanisms to keep… Read more »
I was born breech. I have never fitted in anywhere. I am at my most serene when alone as being around people drains my physical and emotional self. I absorb all that is around me and won’t remember within short while but what happens after a few days I can recall most of the conversation. It feels like I process it internally ,subconciously, then it sees daylight again like a lightbulb goes off in my head.Earlier this year I foresaw a death of one of my siblings . I was in communication with one of my brothers by e-mailand mentioned that a legal matter needed to be taken care of before one of us died. Within a half hour my sister called to tell me that one of my brothers(I have 5 brothers) was on his way to emergency surgery with a dissected aorta. I tried to contact the brother I had e-mailed to let him know to no avail a few minutes later my sister called to say my brother had passed away on his way to surgery while he was on the phone with his wife. She heard him die on the phone 6,000 miles away. My brother… Read more »
Do you have any blogs about empaths energetically breaking free from a narcissist, i am deeply connected to my ex partner and i just cant shake him off. Ive recently gone no contact after he brutally discarded me, now, Its like ive a simieze twin attached to me and hes constantly bullying me daily. I dont feel like im a single person i still feel hes attached to me.
I’ve known for a long time I’m empathetic but only recently learned I’m an empath. Now that I know I find myself in even more of a love hate struggle with myself. On the one hand it means the therapists are wrong about some of my diagnosis, on the other hand it explains a lot why medications don’t work for me and I still continue to suffer. While I’m trying to learn to cope with my empath ‘gifts’, I’m so tired I just want to give up. Being an empath has felt far too much a curse than a gift and those that take advantage of these ‘gifts’ don’t seem to appreciate them at all. Is there anyway to just shut it all off? The hardest thing is every time I have a predictive dream something bad happens. My cousin died after I dreamed of her as an angel. My dad died after I dreamt he was struck by lightning, I predicted my friend’s dad getting hurt and her screaming… then last year I predicted my family and I having a car accident and later that same day we had an accident and the car rolled. I’m terrified of my… Read more »
I’ve always known i was different from most ppl. I’m just learning about my empathic abilities or should i say not being scared of them. I’ve been told im bi popular but i never thought i was. Professionals try to medicate me but i wonder take the meds. I see hear and smell things most ppl don’t. I’m looking for guidance on the matter if my abilities
How does one seek help as an Empath if they don’t know what it is or are never introduced to Empath gifts?
I wish I could turn off the empathy , and emotions, I wish I was more logical and analytical,Mr Spock , data and 7 of 9 got it right, emotions cause so much pain and indecision
I’ll be honest and state that I am still very confused about the difference between Empaths and Highly Sensitive people. Every empath test I take scores very high, however when some people describe Highly Sensitive people, they sound almost similar. Based on my childhood experiences before I learned to use marijuana to block them, I used to have prophetic dreams and some extreme spiritual / other worldly experiences which is what’s leading me towards the direction of being an Empath. I’ll admit the reality of this is a bit overwhelming because it seems there as a lot of work to be done internally to be able to have a better grasp on controlling and using my gifts correctly.
Your website is interesting in several ways. I would like to see an answer to the question like I googled it.. Why can I see things that other people can’t see. I’m not having delusions as confirmed by my psychiatrist or he believes not. These things, entities at are too complex for my non engineering mind. Other people, online, thousands, have described the same things. So far, I have not been able to reach any of these people. What was once scary to me, then accepted they weren’t going to hurt me so I carried on.. Very alone with my family just sure I’m crazy. Now these things I can video on a zoomed camera, take pictures of, pick up on motion detectors, hear.. Are getting more plentiful in my house. Too plentiful and are starting to cause physical pain. There’s nowhere to go for help so I guess I would be happy to only know what it is and what others have done s about these entities. Did I always believe in ghosts, spirits or boogie men.. Never. Now, I’m open to many things because I believe in many things I can’t see. Might I add, I see this… Read more »
Empath Test Question
#1. You expect me to choose only one option?! Cant be done.