Thriving as an Empath: 365 Days of Self-Care for Sensitive People, by Dr. Judith Orloff, is a massively helpful book for both the spiritually enlightened and the less spiritually oriented empath. It’s completely fortified with tools for even the most distantly curious of empathy and spirituality in-of them-selves. This is a subject that doesn’t even take a seriously interested reader to want to know more about, so the doctor wins no matter how you slice this magnificent guide of sorts. It’s hard not to commend it on the principles alone, but the proof is in the great amount of resources.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: https://drjudithorloff.com/thriving-as-an-empath/
From cover to cover there is no page not worth reading and recalling whenever you find yourself backed into the corners it can help you out of by either keeping in mind or highlighting it for repetition. It’s a few books in one when you boil down everything it contains, and that comes from a counselor’s sensibility not all authors on every subject can offer. Judith Orloff helps steer all eyes in the right directions, but more importantly she helps keep them there if it takes constant or even mild repetition and for that you likely won’t find a better book out there.
Not to compare with other authors and titles on empathy, but to help shine a light on this because it’s a creatively comprehensive way to keep up on the many legs the subject can take on. That can be everything from the smallest thing in your day, to the biggest things that can steal time and joy worth experiencing. The book keeps you focused on what’s right for yourself, and that can help open doors to how you apply empathy on a regular basis. You get insight to what Chronos and Kairos time means and how to manage them by knowing the difference.
You also get an in-depth chronological approach to life’s challenges and how to keep them in constant check for a more-healthy life due to the heavy stress of taking on the sheer emotions of others in the process of showing basic empathy. This is where the book provides an almost medicinal approach through very well worded facts and how to not let them stand in your way every minute, day, week and month of each year. This takes a lot of focus, but it can be maintained through consistent self-awareness practices like meditation and others.
AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/Thriving-Empath-Self-Care-Sensitive-People/dp/1683642910
Most of all, Thriving can help anyone get out of their own way, so to speak, concerning a large assortment of stuff we let ourselves get taken away by. It gives help with the ability to properly utilize them once you’ve tapped into whatever they might be and in many cases are. Controlling one’s emotions is tricky and takes much work in the department of self-awareness, even though it manifests itself in the opposite ways. If something is in your way, it might just be a lack of reflection, it might not, but a better sense of self-awareness is always in order and this book has the expert advice and how to use it.
Jodi Marxbury