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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 and anyone who wants to nurture their empathy and develop coping skills in our high-stimulus world - while fully embracing their gifts of intuition, compassion, creativity, and spiritual connection. This practical, empowering, and loving book was created to support empaths through their unique challenges and help loved ones better understand the empath's needs and gifts. Dr. Orloff offers crucial practices, including: * Exercises to help you identify your empath type and where you are on the empathy spectrum * Tools for protecting yourself from sensory overload, exhaustion, addictions, and compassion fatigue while replenishing your vital energy * Simple, 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 and raising 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 lifelong guide for staying fully open while building resilience, exploring your gifts of depth and compassion, and feeling welcome and valued by a world that desperately needs what you have to offer.
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"Dr. Orloff voices the message that intuition works as a potent therapeutic force that can help us lead smarter, saner lives. She is a serene maverick." --USA TodayTransforming the face of psychiatry, Judith Orloff MD asserts that we are keepers of an innate intuitive intelligence so perceptive that it can tell us how to heal -- and prevent -- illness. Yet intuition and spirituality are the very aspects of our wisdom usually disenfranchised from traditional health care.Dr. Orloff is a New York Times bestselling author who specializes in treating empaths and sensitive people in her Los Angeles based private practice. Dr. Orloff is on the psychiatric clinical faculty at UCLA. As an empath herself, she synthesizes the pearls of conventional medical wisdom with cutting edge knowledge of intuition, spirituality, and energy medicine. Her work has been featured on The Today Show, CNN, PBS, and in USA Today and The Oprah Magazine. In response to her work, The Los Angeles Times calls Dr. Orloff "a prominent energy-based healer."Dr. Orloff's latest book "Thriving as an Empath: 365 Days of Self-Care for Sensitive People" (Sounds True 2019) offers a year's worth of of self-care meditations, reflections, and journaling suggestions as daily inoculations against stress and overwhelm for highly sensitive people along with its companion The Empath's Empowerment Journal. Her previous book "The Empath's Survival Guide: Life Strategies for Sensitive People" (Sounds True, 2017) is an invaluable resource to help sensitive people of all kinds develop healthy coping mechanisms in our high-stimulus world. The book also has a companion audio program called "Essential Tools for Emapths: A Survival Guide for Sensitive People" which has many practical exercises for sensitive people.Dr Orloff's first book, "Second Sight" chronicles her struggles acknowledging and then finally embracing her gift of intuition. Her second book, "Dr. Judith Orloff's Guide to Intuitive Healing" shows how breakthroughs in healing our body, emotions, and sexuality can be accomplished by listening to intuition. "Positive Energy," which has been translated into 25 languages, takes a probing look at the American epidemic of exhaustion and how we can reverse it using specific strategies to build energy and combat draining people. Her New York Times Bestseller, "Emotional Freedom" describes how to transform negative emotions into positive ones with specific techniques. Her national bestseller, "The Power of Surrender" describes the power of letting go in everyday life, health, and wellness--an enlivening and sane alternative to pushing, forcing, and over controlling people and situations. To learn more about power of intuition, empaths & Dr. Orloff's Empath Support Newsletter visit www.drjudithorloff.com
