Hello and welcome to enlightened empaths, your community for the spiritually awakened

Empaths, where we discuss, explore and connect with fellow Empaths,

healers, intuitiveuitive, and Seekers.

Welcome Empaths. We're so happy that you are able to join us once again.

We are super excited to bring a new guest to you all

who has just written an incredible book

called The Way of the Empath.

So before we dive into the book, let me tell you a little bit about our guest today. Elaine Clayton is an artist and author illustrator of several books for children and adults on intuitive intelligence.

She's an intuitive reader, a Reiki master,

and teacher of intuitive empathic development.

She has taught in Premier Independent Schools

in Atlanta, Boston,

in New York City, and as a visiting author artist

in cities around the US.

Elaine studied at the School of Visual Arts

in New York, where she earned a master of fine arts. Her editorial art includes work for the New York Times, the New York Times book review, and books by Pulitzer Prize wedding author Jane Smiley and Arthur Gregory McGuire. She's on the show with us today to discuss her latest book,

The Way of the Empath,

how compassion, empathy, and intuition can heal your world.

Elaine, welcome to the show. We're happy to have you with us. Thank you so much. I'm really happy and super excited to be here with you. Oh, we are too. You know, it's so often that we find people either in healing professions like nursing or in the world of art who tend to be called to this world of empaths.

How do you feel those two go hand in hand? Did you always know you were in empath or did the artwork come first?

Well, I try not to be too hard in a definition of what is an impact because then it becomes who's an

impact and who isn't, you know, and it's sort of, doesn't make me feel good to do that. So more so what I would say is we're all somewhere on a kind of

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