The Empath’s Survival Guide: Life Strategies for Sensitive People by Judith Orloff

Dr. Judy Orloff is an Empath and physician.  This unique combination is reflected in the chapter about Empaths and addiction, which includes everything from Alcohol and Overeating.  This is not something you find in all the other books. 

The Empath’s Survival Guide: Life Strategies for Sensitive People also includes a quick reference guide on protection strategies, so you can easily access it and not go back and reread or try to find that part in the book. 

Book Excerpt

An empath’s body is different from other people’s. We feel everything. Our bodies are porous so we absorb the positive and negative energies around us into our muscles, tissues, and organs. This can affect our health in many important ways. On the positive side, we’re able to sense other people’s vitality, happiness, and love within ourselves. This feels amazing and is such good medicine! However, we can also feel other people’s physical discomfort, stress, and negative emotions, such as frustration, anger, and fear (even when they’re unspoken). As empaths, we can get tired and sick when we’re around toxic people, noise, violence, rushing, and yelling.

Orloff, Judith. The Empath’s Survival Guide: Life Strategies for Sensitive People (p. 29). Sounds True. Kindle Edition.

My Thoughts

If you are new to discovering your Empath abilities, this is a great book to get you started.  Not only will you find the basic building blocks of being an Empath, but you will also begin to take a deeper dive into everyday life as an Empath.