Introduction
If you’ve ever been told you are too sensitive, you are probably an empath. If you cry during Hallmark movies or if crowded places make you feel anxious, you are probably an empath. If negativity overwhelms you or you can easily spot someone fibbing, you are probably an empath. Many people think empaths are weak (including most empaths themselves), but empaths are the strong ones. Empaths carry around everyone else’s feelings. I’m an empath. If you feel it, I feel it. When I leave myself vulnerable, I feel what the world feels. When an empath is tired, sick, depressed, or grieving, the empath often unknowingly opens themselves to feeling every emotion. Those emotions stick to the soul. It’s icky. It’s scary. It’s dizzying. It causes panic and fear—exactly the kind of energy that negativity needs to flourish. Negative energy doesn’t want us to know that we have our own “weapon” called positivity and healing. An empath feels everything deeply. A hard look can sometimes be as painful as a physical punch. Witnessing something embarrassing 1
