I finally got around to reading The Empath's Survival Guide by Judith Orloff, MD, who I wrote about previously, and what a great book! Highly recommend.
She actually breaks down Empaths into three main types - physical empaths, emotional empaths, and intuitive empaths. We may be more of one than the others or maybe have experienced all three. She also broke down the intuitive empaths into seven different types, which again, we may be more of some types than others or have traits of multiple types.
It's so nice having professionals such as doctors and therapists who are Empaths themselves coming out with helpful books, courses and information for other Empaths, such as Dr. Judith Orloff, Dr. Christiane Northrup, and Dr. Michael R. Smith.
There were a number of quotes she had throughout the book and a couple of them really spoke to me. Here's one of them :
As a child I felt myself to be all alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things that others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know. Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.
~Dr. Carl Jung
