58: What is an Empath? With Caroline of The Happy Sensitive

The Highly Sensitive Person Podcast

Kelly

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🗓️ 13 February 2016

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

I've heard the word "empath" a lot, but didn't truly understand what it meant. I thought it maybe simply referred to people who experienced a lot of empathy....? But that didn't seem right. When searching for a simple explanation about empaths, I came up empty, until I found this great article on Caroline's website, The Happy Sensitive. It was then I knew that I just had to get Caroline on the podcast to help explain empaths!

In this episode, we discuss:

What is and isn't an empath
The struggles and benefits of being an empath
The difference between an empath, trained empath, and clair-sentient
Energy and spiritual levels versus practical, psychological level

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Highly Sensitive Person Podcast, a twice monthly podcast for people who experience the world intensely.
0:10.0	Join me on a journey of acceptance of our highly sensitive person traits.
0:16.0	Welcome to the HSP Podcast. I'm your host, Kelly. Today I am excited to have a special guest with me. This is Caroline from the Happy Sensitive at the Happy Sensitive.com. Caroline helps highly sensitive people and empaths to get out of overwhelm and feel lighter by teaching them ways to work with their
0:38.9	sensitivity instead of trying to shut it down. And I'm so happy to chat with Caroline today
0:44.9	because I've personally found it kind of challenging to truly understand what an empath is.
0:51.8	If you haven't heard the word empath before, an empath is different than simply a person
0:57.5	with empathy. There's a lot more to it than that. So today, Caroline, is going to help me better
1:02.8	understand this concept. And maybe some of you listening will identify with it too and think,
1:08.7	wow, that's totally me. So thank you so much for speaking with me today,
1:13.8	Caroline. Hi. Yeah. It's great to be here. So I'd like to start by asking a little bit about you. Can you
1:20.1	tell me what led you down this path to becoming a coach for empaths? Right. So I used to work as a
1:27.4	teacher at a local university here in the
1:30.0	Netherlands. And I had just started to learn, like come across this concept of highly
1:36.7	sensitive people and was researching it a little bit. But basically I had no, no idea of what was
1:42.7	going on with me. And I would go home at the end of the day and I would be like my brain and my body
1:48.6	would be filled with everybody's problems.
1:51.0	And I didn't really understand why.
1:53.1	And there was also this thing where I was just more aware of what other people were dealing
1:57.3	with than most other people seemed to be.
1:59.9	So I was the first one who could kind of see like, oh, this colleague is coming down with a flu
2:05.1	or this person is not really happy about something.
2:08.0	And then sometimes I talk to somebody else about it and they'd be like, what are you
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