Inner Work 142: On Being an Empath with Dr. Judith Orloff
Inner Work: A Spiritual Growth Podcast
Josephine Hardman
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
My special guest for this episode is Judith Orloff, MD, the "godmother of the empath movement." Dr. Orloff is a psychiatrist, empath, and intuitive healer. She is also a New York Times bestselling author and UCLA psychiatric clinical faculty member. Her books include The Empath's Survival Guide, Thriving as an Empath, and Emotional Freedom.
Dr. Orloff has written a new book called Affirmations for Empaths: A Year of Guided Journaling. In this episode, we talk about:
- what it means to be an empath
- the challenges of being an empath, especially if you were not heard or acknowledged for your gifts as a child
- how to survive in our modern world as empaths
- Dr. Orloff's new book and how affirmations can help you heal and fully claim your gifts of empathy & intuition
You can purchase Dr. Orloff's new book here: https://www.soundstrue.com/products/affirmations-for-empaths-1
And visit her website here: https://drjudithorloff.com
To explore my (Josephine's) work and services, please head over to www.josephinehardman.com or write to me@josephinehardman.com
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| 0:00.0 | This is Inner Work, a spiritual growth podcast, a place to explore our spiritual concepts, |
| 0:19.3 | tools, and practices to deepen your healing and awakening. |
| 0:24.1 | I'm your host, Josephine Hartman, a certified intuitive healer and a Kashik records practitioner and |
| 0:30.5 | teacher. I'm honored that you're here and happy to serve as a guide or companion on your path for a little while. |
| 0:38.7 | To check out my services and courses, please visit josephinehardmann.com. |
| 0:52.9 | For this episode of Inner Work, I have the pleasure of interviewing Judith Orloff, a leading voice in the fields of medicine, psychiatry, and intuitive development, as well as a New York Times bestselling author and UCLA psychiatric clinical faculty member. Her books include the empaths |
| 1:13.8 | survival guide, thriving as an empath, guide to intuitive healing, and second sight. She has just |
| 1:20.8 | written a new book, Affirmations for Empaths, so we'll be chatting about that today. So Judith, |
| 1:27.4 | thank you for being here. Oh, I'm very excited to be here. |
| 1:31.8 | Excellent. Yeah, me too. And I think, you know, maybe to get started, it's important to clearly define the terms of the conversation. And maybe we can start with that term empath. So how do you define that? |
| 1:45.9 | What does it mean to be an empath? |
| 1:48.5 | Well, I'm both a psychiatrist and an empath. |
| 1:52.6 | And so I just want to start out by saying the linear mind and the empathic heart can go together. |
| 1:59.2 | So that's beautiful. |
| 2:02.4 | An empath is somebody who's very sensitive and might have been shamed all of their lives as |
| 2:08.1 | impasse as children saying that they were too sensitive or there was something wrong with them. |
| 2:14.0 | And empaths are intuitive, open, spiritual. |
| 2:18.9 | They love to connect. |
| 2:20.4 | They love nature. |
| 2:22.4 | And all these are generalizations. |
| 2:25.1 | And they like being one to one with someone or in small groups. |
| 2:29.7 | And many don't like larger groups or stadium type things. |
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