I Don't Want to Be an Empath Anymore: How to Reclaim Your Power Over Emotional Overload, Maintain Boundaries, and Live Your Best Life

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Even when you aren’t sure what you are feeling, empaths can read your body language and tell you what you are experiencing. It’ll also help them process their own experience. In all likelihood, you’ll both be a little uplifted for sharing that experience. When people seek you out specifically for your comfort and help, they are pulling it from you and demanding it.

Empaths give. They give of themselves, they give of their time. What they take is the negative. They absorb people’s negative emotions, take away their pain as best as they can. The more people an empath interacts within the day to day, the less space they have to deal with their own emotions.

How to Reclaim Your Power Over Emotional Overload, Maintain Boundaries, and Live Your Best Life

Empaths are especially susceptible to emotional contagion: other people’s moods will often dictate yours. For example, let’s say you’ve been keeping a journal: each time you feel yourself absorb an emotion you write it down. This one is close to home for me, too. I’m almost always drained. When people ask me how I am, I pretty much always say, “tired.”

In this refreshingly honest guide, shamanic practitioner Ora North offers practical exercises to help you navigate your intuition and empathic sensitivities, create much-needed boundaries, and build confidence. You'll also learn to balance your emotions and energy, and harness the strength of your shadow side to embrace your whole self and live your best life. I'm not usually fond of anything that can be labeled as self-help, but I wanted to read this after seeing it recommended by someone else who was struggling with emotional stress due to the people around them. And since I recently set a goal to reduce stress and strife where I'm able to, I figured reading this as a start wouldn't hurt. Because almost anything is better than thinking about permanent expiration all the time.It is sweetly ironic what this piece of work represents: a charitable, empathetic donation for the good of others. One that has clearly taken a long time, and a lot of processing; difficult processes at that. I Don’t Want to Be an Empath Anymore is a gift for the jaded empath searching for authenticity in spirituality, and spirituality in being authentic―something beyond the clichéd, positive affirmations that seem to invalidate our anger, sadness, and pain. When we feel broken―and when real damage has been done, it’s not always helpful to ignore our feelings and tell ourselves that we are perfect and whole. I Don’t Want to Be an Empath Anymore is a gift for the jaded empath searching for authenticity in spirituality, and spirituality in being authentic - something beyond the clichéd, positive affirmations that seem to invalidate our anger, sadness, and pain. When we feel broken - and when real damage has been done, it’s not always helpful to ignore our feelings and tell ourselves that we are perfect and whole. The first of these is Ora North’s authorial voice. Rich and poetic, it’s simply a delight to read – even when the topics turn toward something heavier. Ora is not afraid to meet the reader in those dark places, and she doles out understanding and illumination in spades. It feels less like reading solo and more like an ongoing conversation with a mentor, creating the perfect tone for those who need that guiding hand. It’s difficult to put the book down once you’ve started reading it! Setting boundaries is a very healthy thing to do. As an empath, these boundaries will be crucial to your mental health and ability to cope with the downsides of your gift.