What it Means to be an Empath with Dr. Judith Orloff

Life, Death & The Space Between with Dr. Amy Robbins

Dr. Amy Robbins

Deathanxiety, Religion & Spirituality, Healing, Consciousness, Spirituality, Self-improvement, Mentalhealth, Education, Life, Death, Wellness

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🗓️ 25 August 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AN EMPATH with DR. JUDITH ORLOFF

“If you are empathic, you must develop skills to not take on the suffering of the world.” – psychiatrist Dr. Judith Orloff

Episode Summary:

Are the woes of the world weighing especially heavily on you lately? Are you feeling burned out? Is it all just too much?

If so… you may be an empath.

Psychiatrist Judith Orloff, MD asserts that we are the keepers of an innate intuitive and empathic intelligence so perceptive that it can help us heal — and prevent illness. These qualities are too often disenfranchised from conventional health care. Dr. Orloff is a New York Times bestselling author and is on the UCLA psychiatric clinical faculty. Her mission is proving the links between physical, emotional, and spiritual health.

She has written 8 books. Her newest, “Affirmations for Empaths” is a weekly journal helping sensitive, caring, empathic people reflect and flourish.

Listen in to hear how Dr. Orloff bridges psychiatry and spirituality.

Topics We Discuss:

[3:18] How Dr. Orloff’s combines traditional medical skills with her empathic gifts and intuition. Her new workbook, and how she intends you to use it to expand into more natural ways of you being you.

[10:02] Dr. Orloff’s working definition of “empath”. Her first book has a 20 question self-assessment to determine if you are an empath.

[12:15] Empaths feel overwhelm from large crowds and from not being understood. Most empath are introverts, but empaths can also be extroverts.

[16:40] Affirmations are a useful tool for establishing new neural pathways, for soaking the subconscious with new ideas. This is not spiritual bypassing.

[21:08] Dr Orloff asserts, and Dr. Robbins agrees, you may never get over the fears, the anxiety, and the negative messages. Rather, you learn how to tame them and learn skills to manage them.

[22:26] The importance of meditation as a spiritual practice.

[23:37] How Dr Orloff incorporates intuition in her psychiatry work. She listens with her linear mind, while listening with her intuition and empathy.

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Find Dr. Orloff at her website.

Her latest book, “Affirmations for Empaths” is available on Amazon and wherever books are sold.

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0:00.0	before you listen to today's episode i'm just asking you to give this recording a little bit of
0:08.0	grace there are quite a few glitches in the sound and i had just had several storms where trees
0:16.8	had fallen down and taken out power lines i was was out of electricity. I did not have electricity
0:21.9	for 24 hours. And if you can believe the horror in this, I did not have the internet for five days.
0:28.8	And let me tell you, you don't realize how much you rely on the internet until you don't have
0:33.6	the internet's reliant. So I attempted to start recording via hotspot. It did not work very well.
0:41.1	So I had to run over to my girlfriend's house because she had internet and record there. So it's a
0:48.1	little bit glitchy. It's not the best sound quality. So I apologize for that. It's rocky in places, for sure, but it is
0:56.0	absolutely worth your time to listen to. And this was a recording in an episode that I had been
1:00.9	so looking forward to recording. And it carries so many incredible messages of self-knowing
1:06.6	and self-acceptance. So please just give me a little grace and recognize that you just sometimes
1:14.1	got a role with it in life. So here you go with today's episode with Dr. Judith Orla.
1:22.5	Hi, I'm Dr. Amy Robbins and welcome to life, death, and the Space Between podcast.
1:28.8	I'm a licensed clinical psychologist and medium.
1:31.7	And here we explore life, death, consciousness, and what it all means.
1:38.0	Transforming the face of psychiatry, Judith Orlock, MD, asserts that we are the keepers of an innate, intuitive, and empathic
1:46.0	intelligence so perceptive that it can help us heal and prevent illness.
1:51.4	Yet these qualities, along with spirituality, are the very aspects of our wisdom often
1:56.5	disenfranchised from our conventional care.
1:59.8	Dr. Orloff is accomplishing for psychiatry what physicians like Dean Ornish have done for
2:05.1	mainstream medicine.
2:06.6	She is proving that the links between physical, emotional, and spiritual health can't
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