Consciousshift With Julie Ann Turner

We all know someone who is more sensitive than others and more affected by the hardships around them.The term that describes these sensitive people is "empaths." But unlike the experience of normal empathy, they not only share in others' joy and pain, they actually feel and absorb others' emotions and physical symptoms. Empath's heightened experience of the world can overwhelm or even damage them, unless they learn tools to empower and ground themselves.Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guest, Dr. Judith Orloff - author of The Empath's Survival Guide: Life Strategies for Sensitive People - says that research shows that 1 out of 5 people are highly sensitive. But what is the difference between having empathy and being an empath or highly sensitive? "Empathy means our heart goes out to another person in joy or pain," says Dr. Orloff. "But empaths actually feel others' emotions and physical symptoms in their own bodies, without the usual defenses most people have.While most of us tend to think first, and then feel, emp