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Running Out of Spoons: Self Care When You Have a Disability

By Meriah Nichols

Despite what popular culture says, we all know that people with disabilities are not actually the same (ha!), and that what will work with self care with our disability won’t necessarily work for someone else’s.

Read on www.meriahnichols.com

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What Do You Feel When You Watch This? - BBC News

British scientists are looking for people with a rare condition called mirror-touch synesthesia, as it could help them to better understand empathy. Here's how - and why it's important.

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2019
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What It’s Like to Have Mirror Touch Synesthesia: A Doctor Who Literally Feels Your Pain

Dr. Joel Salinas is a neurologist who possesses a rare neurological trait himself: he has mirror touch synesthesia, a rare form of the perceptual condition that allows him to experience the same physical sensations and feelings as the people around him.

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2018
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Feeling All the Feels: Living With Mirror-Touch Synesthesia

For Carolyn Hart, empathy is more than a feeling—it's physical. The professional masseuse has a rare neurological condition called mirror-touch synesthesia. When Hart sees another person in pain, she physically feels that pain too.

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2017
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Mirror Touch: A Memoir of Synesthesia and the Secret Life of the Brain

In this “rich, fascinating portrait of extraordinary sensory awareness” (Kirkus), acclaimed neurologist Joel Salinas, M.D.

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Joel Salinas
2025
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The Empowered Highly Sensitive Person: A Workbook to Harness Your Strengths in Every Part of Life

Do you experience more emotional intensity than others? Do you tend to be more easily overstimulated or process information more slowly? You may be an empath or a highly sensitive person (HSP).

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Amanda Cassil
2020
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Self-Care for Empaths: 100 Activities to Help You Relax, Recharge, and Rebalance Your Life

Balance Your Unique Emotional And Energetic Sensitivities—and Avoid Taking On Other People’s Feelings—with These 100 Practical Activities, Rituals, And Quizzes, Designed Specifically For Empaths Everywhere! If You Are An Empath, You Understand That Your Unique Sensitivity—unusually High Awareness Of...

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Tanya Carroll Richardson
2020
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Thriving as an Empath: 365 Days of Self-Care for Sensitive People

Empaths have so much to offer as healers, creatives, friends, lovers, and innovators at work. Yet highly sensitive and empathic people often give too much at the expense of their own well-being―and end up absorbing the stress of others.

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Judith Orloff
2019
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The Empath’s Empowerment Journal: Your Self-Care Companion

For highly empathic and sensitive people, self-care is essential.

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Judith Orloff
2019
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