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Have you ever just started crying your heart out reading a tragic story? Or perhaps sensed someone was sad and tried to cheer them up? Maybe you have been exhausted and drained after watching a particularly dramatic movie? If you answered yes to all of these you might be an Empath!
I have always been considered the sensitive one in my family, perhaps even dramatic. What I think is so difficult about that is that BECAUSE I am naturally empathetic and sensitive that when people point it out like it's a flaw, it really hurts me. I don't see it as a flaw! Yes, I wear my heart on my sleeve and share my feelings with the world through social media or anywhere really, but that isn't such a bad thing always!
You see, I might get ridiculed for it by well intending people but it's the people that don't share that sentiment that really matter! The people who are going through hard times and send me private messages about how my openness has given them strength. How my emotional transparency allowed them to express themselves better. And the ones that say they wish they could express themselves more but just can't, so they bottle it up. I don't bottle up much, I feel it, in the moment, as it happens. But that can be very HARD!
Like now! Right now, I have a trillion emotions surging through me causing me to feel so much at once that I feel as I might explode. I am exploding, right now, through my fingertips as I write I am releasing these emotions into the keyboard and onto the page. So please don't tell me to keep it all to myself or be more private because if I did that it would be very bad, very bad indeed. I have too many emotions to bottle. I feel everything happening around me like it is happening to myself. I feel the earth suffering and crying with fires, earthquakes, and these really horrible hurricanes that have already impacted so many and are about to do so much more!
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I have family in Florida that have evacuated to Georgia but I also have family and friends that COULD NOT evacuate and are trapped in the path of the biggest, fiercest hurricane any of us have ever seen! I hurt by their inability to do anything but prepare for the worst! I fear for their lives and homes. I feel so helpless that I can't rescue them in a helicopter and get them out to safety!
I am then consumed with the fact that the storm is now aiming directly at us and we will be under some severe category one winds and rain, likely tornadoes, and power outages, all before I even know if my family in Florida are okay or not. We have 18 goats and several hundred various forms of poultry that we are hurrying to find ways to keep them safe during all this. We also have four children we must protect and keep safe and happy during all this. We are under some serious pressure to remain calm, hope for the best and prepare for the worst.
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And to top it all off my husband, our sole provider, was let go from his favorite job ever unexpectedly Thursday afternoon. With all the other things happening in our world and with our family it has been impossible to even process those emotions completely. They keep bubbling up in the pauses between clearing things off porches and yard, building stronger shelters for our birds to survive, shopping for last minute supplies and messaging family to ensure my niece had a way to escape the Florida coast. But the extent of those emotions have not been fully explored yet and will probably be put on the back burner until this storm passes. But I can tell you, change is hard, job loss is a huge change, finding a new job is stressful, filing for unemployment sucks, having no income is scary and all of this and so much more is waiting for us on the other side of our current tragedy.
We are strong! We are brave! We will get through this storm and whatever it brings us and we will survive to face the next storm in our life! But let me tell you, ALL these FEELINGS, they are HARD!
Ahhh, there, that feels better already!
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Definitely a tricky human quality sometimes, but very valuable like you said. Stay safe, hope your farm makes it safely through this disaster, but more importantly that your family is okay.
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Thank you! We should be okay!
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Praying you will weather the storm with a minimum of problems. Stay safe and let us know when you come out the other side. Sending <3 and blessings!
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I will, thank you!
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I think it's admirable to consider the plights and struggles of other people. It's difficult to do, especially with as much as you have going on in your own life.
I'm glad that posting on here makes you feel better. Whether or not I'm an empath, I definitely feel for you, so I wish you the best in the days to come.
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I can very much related to your article, thats an interesting question also about an empath I would consider myself sensitive and sometimes I can feel a bad atmosphere or pick up on what other people are feeling. I do hope your staying safe in the storm.
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I have been thinking of you too my friend and hope all is well! We will be okay!
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I am so thankful I have started taking Reiki classes this week. I've still been paralyzed with anxiety, but have been able to at least accomplish my assignments. I know you feel more than most, I do as well but I withdraw instead of express! I need to learn how to let that energy out. I love that you say what you feel! You are amazing, friend!
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You need to teach me too! You are amazing!
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I understand the overwhelming emotions as an empath. But I can only imagine the feelings of having to deal with a hurricane on top of it! Prayers to you and your family. Fingers crossed things settle a bit more than expected. Stay safe xx
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It's been hard! Thank you!
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I have family who couldn't evacuate . I pray they make it through.. I'm an intuitive person and natural disasters makes me weak when people and animals and the environment are affected. Great post
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It is so hard! I hope your family is safe.
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My prayers are with you mate. I hope that the storm passes by without causing a lot of problems for you. Stay strong mate and keep us updated.
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thank you! I will!
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Thinking of you. Feeling for you. I have empath feelings also, I can't watch the news as I can't deal with the pain and sadness it brings out in me. But getting to know you on one to one, I am happy to be here as a friend and listening ear.
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I rarely watch the news for that very reason. Thank you for being so welcoming from the start!
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Thanks for sharing... Love it.
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Thanks!
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The fact that we think we are in control of anything except our emotions just causes lots of heartache, anxiety, and pain. I hear ya'. I have always been labelled "too sensitive" from my mom growing up.
Praying does work. Also doing good works whenever and wherever possible helps. Bless your heart, you are alive and we all benefit because you care. xoxoxo
I am praying every chance I get for the people of Texas and Florida. I cannot imagine what they are going through right now.
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SO true!
I do pray a lot! helping people in need is my specialty!
Thank you!
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think of you and your family...keep safe ..
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Thank you!
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Yes best to let out your feelings and I feel for you and all of the families having to live through this terrible storm and all the things mother earth is doing at this moment.
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It's so hard!
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Sounds like some tough times - hope everything works out, with the storm and first and then with your husband finding an even better job!
Cheers
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We will survive
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My empathic blessing-curse regularly forces me into agoraphobic reclusiveness. I totally understand. I think the key is to direct all of that overpowering empathic energy into creative/productive pursuits, so that you are actually TRANSMUTING those emotions into something tangible and valuable. For me, as a relatively new Steemian, SteemIt is providing an excellent way to BOTH be a hermit AND be productive (and earn some survival money), and so this is a step in the right direction. That is, I don't need to go outside to participate in, and benefit from, SteemIt. The again, is it REALLY that important to go outside every day? Especially in these crazy times??? Upvoted and followed...
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Steemit has been a great outlet for me! Like therapy but instead of paying someone for it, I get paid!
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Everything happens for a reason. What doesn't kill us only makes us stronger. These sayings come from my grandmother. And she was right. Adversity made us stronger and when one door closed another would open, often offering better opportunities. So hang in there. My thoughts and prayers are with you during this trying time.
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Some of my favorite sayings. thank you!
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You are welcome.
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I am really sorry what is happening to your area @wholesomeroots , and also the entire USA (besides the natural disasters).
I too believe is have become an emphath for the last 10 years, and I know all of us have the capability to become one yet balanced in all emotions.
I heard the stormed has passed for a day in Tampa and I hope your family too is safe and praying that the storm will subside soon.
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I didn't find this post until after Irma was a memory, but I know exactly what you mean about the stress she caused even to people who weren't in her path. Two of my good friends were in Florida -- one on the Atlantic coast, the other on the Gulf Coast -- and it was agony waiting with them ... with nothing I could do but send prayers and watch the radar. (Thank heaven for the internet!)
One I have known for nearly 20 years. The other I have known for 50+ years. We met when we were 14 ... in jr. high school. And although I wasn't fearful for their lives, I knew that trying to put their homes and lives back together again depended on how fierce this storm proved to be ... and that repairs and recovery could be exhausting.
Ah ... empathy. As one of your commenters said, it's both a blessing and a curse. It enriches one's life in many ways ... and opens up so many wonders. But in a world that is not always kind, it can be a challenge. I have to be careful of the movies I watch (and be ready to turn them off quickly if something like torture becomes part of the story.) I have to be careful of the news stories I read (thank God for headlines.) And there is an ad run by the ASPCA that has made me stop watching late night TV because I can't risk being ambushed by it ... it is so awful. So I deeply understand where you're coming from. And I add my most fervent hopes to your growing pile that your life smooths out again soon.
As Gilda Radner used to say (God bless her!) ... "It's always something." Jeez, is it ever!
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