The Empowered Empath: Owning, Embracing, and Managing Your Special Gifts

by Rose Rosetree

Book Overview

If you're among the 1 in 20 people born as an "empath," life's about to get a whole lot better... * Does being with certain people leave you physically drained? * Do you seem to soak up other people's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1935214322
• ISBN13: 9781935214328
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Women's Intuition Worldwide.
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Empaths Defined

If you have ever asked yourself questions such as `Why do I care so much?'; you will thank yourself for reading this book. With clarity and insight, Rose delves in to give specifics about the 20% who relate to others on a deeper level. If you are merely interested, you will learn a lot. If you are empathic, you will understand your gifts more fully and gain needed skills to be more effective in all areas of your life. This book is a breath of fresh air for anyone who has ever pondered the nature vs. nurture theories to explain their own unique abilities to connect with others.

New Possibilities

As a sometimes college math teacher, I am seldom accused of having empathy (particularly just after a final exam). So, I began reading the book just to see what life might be like for other people, those who did have some empathy. Perhaps it would be a bit like Darth Vader reading about Obi Wan, just to check out the competition. To my surprise (and a little consternation), I discovered that it is quite possible that I have some empathic attributes myself. Who would guess? Many books indeed are really written quite selfishly. So many are written to show the author to be a talented or clever person. Those books are really written for the author, and there are very many of them indeed in the psychology/spirituality/self-help area. Very few are there to help the reader improve his own life. This book seems to me to be written quite unselfishly, with the purpose of helping the reader to uncover new possibilities in his own life. In that way, it can be regarded as a practical and helpful book and one that serves in its way to build up civilization. I like to play Tai Chi. The worst insult you can give to a Tai Chi player is to tell him that his practice is "talking Chi Kung". That is, all talk, no show. This is a real book and not just talk.

from Empathy as Affliction, Empathy as a Gift

Rose Rosetree has written a survival manual for the empath. People who feel other people's experience, who cannot help it, bounce through life like a pingpong ball. The mood of the last person you met determines how you feel. First Rose Rosetree reassures you that you are not crazy. Then she tells you how to get control over the incoming feelings. When you finally have some space of your own, she helps you to use your empathy to help others. *Empowered by Empathy* is that rare book that delivers what it promises. I recommend it.

This book is a life saver!

Have you ever been in a good mood only to blow up at your spouse or child the moment they walked in the door after not seeing them all day; then blame yourself for the way you've acted? Have you ever driven past another car and gotten an instant headache? If you've experienced any similar circumstances, you need to read this book. The author will tell to you that you are normal...for being an empath. She will explain in very easy to understand terms why you feel and act the way you do and how to get relief from feeling like you may be crazy. Her terms like Emotional Oneness and Physical Oneness will help you understand yourself and how and why you do seemingly strange things and act strange ways. She explains the various kinds of empaths in such a way that you can pinpoint yourself through her text. You will learn how to control your wonderful gifts for understanding and helping mankind while making your life so much more comfortable. The way she writes makes you feel like she's sitting in front of you and personally teaching you about yourself as if she was you! Thank you Rose!!!!

Priceless information!

If you are sensitive to the moods and feelings of others, do yourself a big favor and read this book! Empathic sensitivity (that is, pulling in emotional energy from people around you and experiencing it as your own) can be a big source of confusion and frustration. But Rose Rosetree helps you understand empathy as the GIFT it truly is. This book is all about learning to manage empathic sensitivity by using it with awareness and grace. When you learn how to turn empathy on and off, it becomes a choice instead of an uncontrolled experience. And when you do choose to "join in spirit" with another person in a skilled, balanced way, your consciousness expands and soars! You get to step outside the box of your own experience and explore the delicious "otherness" of someone else's consciousness, then return safely to a grounded sense of yourself. Rosetree defines numerous categories of empathy, including several that never would have occurred to me. I've always imagined empathy to be an exclusively EMOTIONAL connection. Who knew that a talent for getting in sync with another's THOUGHT process could be a kind of intellectual empathy? There are insights galore here. One of the things I like best about Rosetree's books in her use of Q & A sections. This gives her books an "interactive" feel that I really appreciate. It's the closest thing to a live workshop you can get in book form. If you know, or suspect, that you are a natural empath, don't pass this one up; it could be life-changing.