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The Gentle Power of Highly Sensitive People | Elena Herdieckerhoff | TEDxIHEParis

2016

Elena Herdieckerhoff explains why we need to change the prevalent cultural narrative around highly sensitive people.

15:54 min

Belonging Here: A Guide for the Spiritually Sensitive Person

People who are able to feel more deeply and help others heal can find those gifts also bring loneliness and some pain. This book explores the most common challenges of the spiritually sensitive as well as exercises and meditations for embracing and not being overwhelmed by those gifts.

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Judith Blackstone
2012
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Life and Simulated Death with Mirror Touch Synaesthesia

Since she was young, Luna Jones has had the “superhuman” ability to feel everything you (and everyone else) feels. Is it a burden or a gift?

Article
Matteo di Maio
2020
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Autism May Be Linked to Mirror-Touch Synesthesia, the Ability to Physically Feel What Others Feel

Although synesthesia is not as rare as it was once believed, synesthetes (people who experience synesthesia) typically don’t realize their unique abilities are not common to everyone. Another fun fact: it’s also believed synesthesia could be linked to autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

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Andréas RB Deolinda
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Some People with Synaesthesia Feel Other People’s Sensations of Touch – Painful and Pleasurable

Interactions between self-other representation and vicarious perception are thought to be important to how we all experience empathy.

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Michael Banissy
2021
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Help Arrives for Mirror-Touch Synesthetes

Pioneering therapist Dr. Judith Orloff counsels the highly empathic.

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Maureen Seaberg
2015
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Intuitive Empaths: Signs, Types, Downsides, and Self-Care

Have you ever been told you’re too sensitive? Or advised to toughen up and develop a thicker skin? Maybe you’ve always felt you know what’s going to happen before it occurs, or you know how others are feeling without them having to tell you. If so, you could be an intuitive empath.

Article
Victoria Stokes
2021
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Is Your Child an Empath? Tips for Raising Empathic Children

An excerpt from Judith Orloff’s "The Empath’s Survival Guide."

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Judith Orloff
2017
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Esoteric Empathy: A Magickal & Metaphysical Guide to Emotional Sensitivity

Esoteric Empath examines the experience of empathy from every imaginable angle, taking the reader on a philosophical and experiential journey of what it means to be empathic.

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Raven Digitalis
2016
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How to Heal Toxic Energy

If we want to change the world we need to focus on changing ourselves. And this includes the need to be more conscious of the thoughts we send out.

Article
Sandra Ingerman
2011
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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 the difference between venting and dumping as the latter can beat down one’s positivity and self worth.

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Judith Orloff
2017
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