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Dr Judith Orloff
9 Essential Coping Skills for Empath Parent
Success and power have many facets
You can have every material success in the world and still not be happy. Happiness comes from within and without.
Success and Power: Keys to True Fulfillment
Exploring the Multifaceted Nature of Success and Power exploring-success-and-power.
How to Support Empath Children with These 5 Powerful Tips
Empath children are gifts to the world and need to be nurtured properly.
Empathic Listening: Secrets Revealed
Empathic listening is a way to help heal others through the quality of your presence and attention.
The Hidden Power of Intuition: Gender Insights Revealed!
Intuition as a potent form of inner wisdom.
8 Steps to Boost Self-Empathy & End Self-Criticism
How you treat yourself profoundly effects your health and well-being.
Discover the Essential Traits for Empathetic Leadership!
Empathy is a vital leadership skill in our world.
Empaths vs. Autism: Understanding Our Unique Empathic Abilities
I often get asked the question “Are empaths on the autistic spectrum” because of their similar tendencies to experience sensory overload from noise, light, smells, sounds, certain kinds of touch,...
How Empathy Can Boost Your Immune Response
How does empathy work on a biological level to boost your immune system?
Stop Empathy Overwhelm with Healthy Boundaries
In my private practice many patients have shared that one of their largest blocks to empathy is a fear of being overwhelmed.
How to Empathize Without Taking On People’s Stress
To be of service you don’t have to give 100% or more to everyone in need.
Who Are the Best Partners for Empaths?
Which type of person makes the ideal match for empaths? It depends on your temperament and needs. You must determine which type (or mixture of types) you prefer and will...
Are You an Introverted or Extroverted Empath?
In The Empath’s Survival Guide, I emphasize that empaths and highly sensitive people have different styles of socializing and interacting with the world.
Navigating the Triggers of a Dysfunctional Family
Many sensitive, caring people need to take it slowly with family get-togethers as they can often feel too much from them. There may be more noise, drinking, and loud voices...
Breaking the Rescuer Pattern
As a psychiatrist and empath, I know the challenges sensitive people have to be compassionate, empowered empaths without shouldering the suffering of others or trying to “fix” them. All people...
The Healing Power & Magic of Affirmations
I ADORE AFFIRMATIONS because they are simple, quick, and effective ways to stay in your best self and reframe unproductive thoughts. I use them personally and recommend them to my...
I Am Not “Too Sensitive”
I’m happy to share this selection from Thriving as an Empath with you:
Many of us have received messages from parents, teachers, friends, or the media that being sensitive is a fault or...
Empaths, Compassion & Mirror Neurons
As a psychiatrist and empath I’ve always been intrigued by the science of empathy.
Keeping Love Alive: Tips to Stop Your Soulmate from Becoming a Cellmate
As a psychiatrist and, personally, as an empath, I’ve learned that being in an intimate relationship requires ongoing creative, honest conversations with your mate.
Embracing the Challenges of Change
Empaths are not always comfortable with change. We tend to feel safe in what’s predictable and known. A part of us resists change because we fear it. But that is...
The Liberation of Feeling Seen
Many sensitive children do not feel seen by their parents, teachers, or family. Their sensitivities are treated more like aberrations from the norm than precious and unique abilities. Many of...
The Toxicity of Noise
Empaths are often sound sensitive and have a lower tolerance for noise. It’s important that we empaths honor our sound sensitivity and do our best to create an environment that...
The 4 Laws of Energetic Attraction
Are you longing for relationships that do your heart good and generate stronger connections? In my book, Positive Energy I discuss how to radically improve your...
Are You Vitamin T (Touch) Deficient?
Are you receiving enough touch or “Vitamin T” as I call it? Are you craving touch and genuine connections, but not getting the level you are used to or would...
The Difference Between Being an Empath & a Codependent
We live in the world with many people. Some are heartfelt and uplifting to be around. Others are more difficult. It’s important to find a comfortable way of relating to...
How to Deal with Overwhelm
Learning to deal with feeling overwhelmed is an essential part of an empath’s tool kit.
The secret to reducing overwhelm is to notice it quickly. Many empathic patients have come to...
The Power of Doing a Life Review
At the close of each year, I like to do a thorough life review. I remind myself that I didn’t have to be perfect or infallible. Instead my goal is...
How To Release Grudges and Resentments
As a psychiatrist, I feel strongly that letting go of resentments, a point I emphasize in my recent book “Emotional Freedom,” is essential to free yourself...
The Art of Holding Space for Loved Ones
One of the great challenges for empaths and all sensitive people is how to help others without burning out. As a psychiatrist, I’ve observed that my patients get most exhausted...
Overcoming Worry & Trusting Intuition During Stressful Times
The world is experiencing unprecedented amounts of stress as humanity finds its way through the pandemic. The volume is enormously cranked up on stress and fear. Of course, worry is...
It’s Not Your Job to Take on the World’s Pain
Empaths and sensitive people have an open heart. They don’t have the same emotional guard up that many others do. They feel people’s pain–both loved ones and strangers–and instinctively they...
How to Release Worry During Stressful Times
As a psychiatrist, I’ve consistently seen with patients and in myself that resisting or stiffening during challenging times only increases stress and saps power, what I call bunker mentality. Everything...
How to Sense Subtle Energy
Outside the intricacies of our physical body there is another dimension, made of energy that penetrates and extends many feet beyond your skin.
What is this energy? It is an intuitive...
Empathic Illnesses: Do You Absorb Other People’s Symptoms?
Empathic illnesses are those in which you manifest symptoms that are not your own. Many patients have come to me labeled “agoraphobic” with panic disorders, chronic depression, fatigue, pain, or...
Are Empaths Hard To Love?
Empaths are some of the most amazing people on this planet. They have so much potential and are able to help far more people than most others are for a...
The Wisdom of Slowing Down in Winter
There comes a point when your body and soul need to rest. As we are approaching the winter solstice, maximum darkness cradles us in serenity and quiet. Your heart may...
7 Strategies for Empaths to Heal Trauma & PTSD
Empaths and sensitive people often experience some level of post-traumatic stress.
This is, in part, because they’re on sensory overload for so many years their systems are flooded with adrenaline. Other...
Empaths and Addiction
Why are empaths so susceptible to alcohol, drug, sex, food, gambling, shopping, or other addictions?
Empaths can become overwhelmed and overstimulated due to their extreme sensitivity. When they “feel too much,”...
Are You a Food Empath? The Missing Piece to Overeating
Food is medicine. It can stabilize your sensitive system, but it can also throw it off.
I’ve observed in my psychiatric practice that overeating and food addictions are common among empaths....
5 Strategies to Heal Your Emotional Triggers
What are emotional triggers? They are those super-reactive places inside you that become activated by someone else’s behaviors or comments.
When triggered, you may either withdraw emotionally and simply feel hurt...
What is Your Level of Empathy?
Empathy is when you care about others in both sadness and joy.
Empathy allows you to understand where another person is coming from even if you don’t agree with them. It...
The Power of Empathy
As a psychiatrist and an empath, I am fascinated by how the phenomenon of empathy works. I feel passionately that empathy is the medicine the world needs right now.
Empathy is...
Self-Soothing Techniques: 8 Ways to Prevent Overwhelm
Many sensitive people have not learned how to self-soothe if they are upset or when life gets intense. Like many children, perhaps you didn’t have the kind of parents that...
The Best and Worst Jobs for an Empath
Some jobs are more satisfying and less stressful for empaths than others. As an empath, myself, I know that to excel in and enjoy our work, we must make the...
How the Sandwich Technique Can Transform Your Relationships
The Sandwich Technique is a mindful, sensitive communication strategy which everyone (including sensitive people) can use to transform the relationships with their partner, friends, family, and co-workers.
This technique is not intended...
How Medication Affects Empaths
Empaths must be discerning about any medications they take.
Since many empaths experience chronic sensory overload, anxiety or depression, conventional physicians often send them to psychiatrists for medication.
Many physicians go straight...
5 Protection Strategies for Empaths
I’m a physician and an empath. In my medical practice of over two decades, I specialize in treating highly sensitive people and empaths like myself. We feel everything, often to...
9 Survival Tips I’ve Learned About Empaths and Intimacy
As an empath, I’ve spent much of my life being single. Too much togetherness always seemed overwhelming to me. I wanted love, but I would experience sensory overload when I...
How to Know if You’re an Empath
Empaths are highly sensitive, finely tuned instruments when it comes to emotions. They feel everything, sometimes to an extreme, and are less apt to intellectualize feelings. Intuition is the filter...
The Healing Power of Tears
For over twenty years as physician, I’ve witnessed, time and again, the healing power of tears. Tears are your body’s release valve for stress, sadness, grief, anxiety, and frustration. Also,...
5 Tools to Become a Warrior Empath
Empaths have strengths that are wonderful to develop. These include compassion, intuition, depth, and a deep connection to other people and the Earth. The world needs your gifts more than...
How To Develop Intuition
In my book, Second Sight I recount my journey to accept and embrace my intuitive abilities. Intuition isn’t just something that strikes by chance. One must...
3 Ways to Create Sacred Space at Work
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You must be comfortable in your work environment to feel healthy and happy.
A workplace that suits your temperament and is energetically nourishing can inspire you. It also...
The Difference Between Venting and Dumping
We can all get upset at times but there are healthy ways to express frustration and anger. It is important, especially for empaths and sensitive people to be aware of...
How to Cut an Unhealthy Bond with Someone
Many of us instinctively want to take away another person’s pain, especially a loved one, but that can be unhealthy for those who soak up their negative energy.
I’ve learned to...
4 Reasons Why People Become Empaths: From Trauma to Genetics
Why do people become empaths? Is it temperament? Genetics? Trauma? Neglectful or supportive parental upbringing? As a psychiatrist and an empath, I’ve seen that the following four main factors (which...
The Difference Between Empaths and Highly Sensitive People
As a psychiatrist and an empath, I often get asked, “What is the difference between empaths and highly sensitive people?” In The...
10 Secrets of Loving an Empath
Empaths often have special challenges in intimate relationships because of their intense sensitivities. Intimacy stretches our hearts so that we can become more loving, open people who will honestly express...
Raising Empathic Children
Empathic children have nervous systems which react more quickly and strongly to external stimuli including stress. Sometimes they feel too much but don’t know how to manage the sensory overload....
9 Strategies to Cure Emotional Hangovers
An empath absorbs the emotions of other people into their own bodies.
As an empath and psychiatrist, I know that feeling well.
Even though empaths may set excellent limits with energy vampires,...
The Power of Being an Earth Empath
I’m a psychiatrist and also an empath. An empath is someone who is highly sensitive and tends to absorb the emotional and physical energy of other people into their own...
The New Science of Empathy and Empaths
As a psychiatrist and an empath, I am fascinated by how the phenomenon of empathy works. I feel passionately that empathy is the medicine the world needs right now.
Empathy is...
Tips to De-Stress Over the Holidays
While the holidays are a cherished time to spend with family and friends it can also be a stressful time trying to juggle all the additional demands of this season....
The Secrets to Managing Overwhelm
Over the years, throngs of stressed out patients have come to my office to consult me about burnout. Mothers, actors, teachers, dog groomers, each with their own reasons why life...
Are You Having an Emotional Affair?
A soul mate relationship is based on trust, commitment, and a strong desire to be together.
Still, despite this powerful bond, it’s also true that your hearts will be stretched in...
Taming Your Inner Slave Driver
Your inner slave driver must be tamed if you want to have a happy, balanced life.
Your inner slave driver is the part of you that’s addicted to workaholism, rushing, and...
4 Positive Beliefs that Promote Healing
Many of us spend a lifetime creating and listening to negative voices. Where do they come from? Why do they persist? To begin with, they echo the words of parents,...
Top 10 Traits of an Empath
The trademark of an empath is that they feel and absorb other people’s emotions and/or physical symptoms because of their high sensitivities. They filter the world through their intuition and...
The Emotional Vampire Holiday Survival Guide
'Tis the season to be with family, friends and co-workers. Some of them will make you feel positive and elevate your mood. Others will suck optimism and serenity right out of...
How to Deal With a Drama Queen
The rollercoaster antics of a drama queen can put you on overload, and wipe you out.
They’re the Sarah Bernhardt of energy vampires. They have a breathy flair for exaggerating small...
4 Ways to Break Up with a Narcissist
In my psychiatric practice I’ve seen how hard it is for my patients to break up with a partner who’s a narcissist. Narcissists can make you fall in love with...
6 Tips to Deal with Anger Addicts
Anger addicts cope with conflict by accusing, attacking, humiliating, or criticizing. Unchecked they can be dangerous and controlling.
Anger can tyrannize relationships. One woman I treated had stopped having any male...
How to Deal with Passive Aggressive People
Passive aggression is a form of anger, except the anger is expressed with a smile instead of the typical expressions. Passive aggressive people are experts at sugar coating hostility. They...
Awaken Your Sensual Self
To fully step into your personal power it is important to awaken your sensual self. Doing this can offer you a primal connection, a satisfaction you can never get from...
Surrender to Miracles and Abundance
Ecstasy and bliss are your birthright. The only thing that keeps you from these is fear. There comes a time when you can set aside this fear and simply rejoice...
6 Holiday Survival Tips for Empaths
We all know the holiday season can be stressful but for empaths it can be even more challenging, almost overwhelming. This time of the year their ability to be emotional...
Do You Have a Guilt Tripper in Your Life?
Guilt Trippers are world class blamers, martyrs, and drama queens. They know how to make you feel badly about something by pressing your insecurity buttons. They use guilt to manipulate...
4 Surrender Strategies to Communicate with Difficult People
Many of us spend an inordinate amount of time and energy contending with difficult people or “emotional vampires” at work and at home. It’s a reflex to emotionally contract around...
Are You Attracted to Unavailable People? (+Video)
In my book, The Ecstasy of Surrender I discuss how a soul mate must be willing and available to have a relationship with you. If he or she...
Why Empaths Are at Risk for Adrenal Fatigue
As a psychiatrist I treat many empath-patients who come in exhausted with a syndrome known as adrenal fatigue. This is a collection of symptoms such as exhaustion, body aches, anxiety,...
Surrender to the Miracle of Love
In my new book, The Ecstasy of Surrender I define a soul mate as a fated romantic relationship with someone to whom you feel a special affinity. You fall in...
Surrender Your Addiction to Stress (+Video)
According to the most recent APA "Stress in America" survey, nearly half of today’s adults reported being more stressed out. And just as many say they’re simply unable to control...
7 Habits of Surrendered People
Dr. Judith Orloff
(Adapted from The Ecstasy of Surrender: 12 Surprising Ways Letting Go Can Empower Your Life Harmony Books, 2014 by Judith Orloff MD)
Surrender is a positive, healthy state. Being...
The Art of Reading People: Three Techniques to Ignite Your Super-Senses
(Adapted from The Ecstasy of Surrender: 12 Surprising Ways Letting Go Can Empower Your Life Harmony Books, 2014 by Judith Orloff MD)
As a psychiatrist my job is to read people,...
Two Ways to Beat an Addiction to Power
Dr. Judith Orloff
(Adapted from The Ecstasy of Surrender: 12 Surprising Ways Letting Go Can Empower Your Life Harmony Books, 2014 by Judith Orloff MD)
Are you addicted to power? Many leaders...
4 Strategies to Survive Emotional Vampires
As an energy psychiatrist I know that to come out ahead with drainers, you must be methodical. Emotional vampires can’t savage your peace of mind or prick you to death...
How to Set Awkward Boundaries: “No” is a Complete Sentence!
Dr. Judith Orloff
It may sometimes be awkward to set healthy boundaries with negative or draining people, but it is an important skill to learn. If someone has unrealistic expectations of...
Celebrating the Highly Sensitive Man
Dr. Judith Orloff
Sensitive men are incredibly attractive. They are path-forgers in the new paradigm of the evolved man. Strong and sensitive. Intuitive and powerful. They’re able to give and receive...
Combat Toxic Energy & Rejuvenate Your Emotional Life
Dr. Judith Orloff
Emotions can come at you hard and fast. You must be prepared.
In a flash, negativity can spin you into a tizzy, your center blown to smithereens. Not to...
5 Tips to Intuitive Healing
Dr. Judith Orloff
I am a psychiatrist and intuitive. My passion is combining spirituality and intuition with mainstream medicine. When patients come to see me, I listen to them with my...
How to Intuitively Make Smart Decisions
Dr. Judith Orloff
Adapted from Dr. Judith Orloff's "Positive Energy: 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear into Vibrance, Strength, and Love ”
As an intuitive psychiatrist I worship...
Celebrate Laughter: Reconnect with Your Joyful Inner Child
Dr. Judith Orloff
As a psychiatrist, I’m a big prescriber of laughter. Not the contrived or canned kind, but laughter from the soul. Just as I guide patients, I’d like you...
Power of Love: Recognizing our Collective Unity
Dr. Judith Orloff
There is much speculation and anticipation about the advent of the winter solstice on December 21, 2012. This is the date that the Mayan calendar ends and their...
How to Deal with a Victim Mentality
Dr. Judith Orloff
As a psychiatrist I teach my patients the importance of learning how to deal effectively with draining people. In "Emotional Freedom", I discuss one of these...
How to Attract Positive People in Your Life
Dr. Judith Orloff
Are you longing for relationships that do your heart good and generate stronger connections? Tired of poor choices? Tepid chemistry? Want a more commanding role in who you...
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