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The Everyday Empath: Achieve Energetic Balance in Your Life
Deepen Your Understanding of Empathy, Develop Your Gifts, and Discover Emotional Balance
Enrich your knowledge of empathy and improve your empathic abilities with this captivating, easy-to-use guide. The Everyday Empath offers a well-rounded view of what it means to experience high levels of empathy in daily life. Featuring exercises, examples, and insights, it's an essential resource to have on your shelf.
Explore empathic self-care and how to spiritualize your empathy through daily meditation, prayer, shrines, vision boards, and more. Learn about the importance of creative expression and astrological shifts. Find out how to share your gifts with friends, family, and your community. From science to spirituality, this book shows you how to achieve personal balance and reveals new ideas that will help you thrive in your empathic life.
Enrich your knowledge of empathy and improve your empathic abilities with this captivating, easy-to-use guide. The Everyday Empath offers a well-rounded view of what it means to experience high levels of empathy in daily life. Featuring exercises, examples, and insights, it's an essential resource to have on your shelf.
Explore empathic self-care and how to spiritualize your empathy through daily meditation, prayer, shrines, vision boards, and more. Learn about the importance of creative expression and astrological shifts. Find out how to share your gifts with friends, family, and your community. From science to spirituality, this book shows you how to achieve personal balance and reveals new ideas that will help you thrive in your empathic life.
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216 pages, Paperback
First published March 8, 2019
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Raven Digitalis
22 books70 followersRaven Digitalis (USA) is an award-winning author best known for his “empath’s trilogy,” consisting of The Empath's Oracle, Esoteric Empathy, and The Everyday Empath, as well as the “shadow trilogy” of A Gothic Witch’s Oracle, A Witch's Shadow Magick Compendium, and Goth Craft. Originally trained in Georgian Witchcraft, Raven has been an earth-based practitioner since 1999, a Priest since 2003, a Freemason since 2012, and an empath all of his life. He holds a degree in cultural anthropology from the University of Montana, jointly operated a nonprofit Pagan temple for sixteen years, and is also a professional Tarot reader, editor, card-carrying magician, and animal rights advocate.
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January 11, 2019
'The Everday Empath' by Raven Digitalis is a manual for those who identify as empaths or for those who suspect they might be empaths. This books covers all the bases from defining what an empath is, to coping strategies, to outlining the benefits of being an empath, and everything in between. The main message throughout was that the key to surviving in today’s world as an empath begins with living a balanced life by cultivating self-care.
What I particularly liked about this book was that it teaches you how to become more self-aware, so it’s not about hating your empathic abilities or placing the blame on other people for the way you feel. In this sense, this was a self-empowering book that made me feel proud and confident being an empath. There were many exercises outlined in the book to help cope with the emotional tsunami’s of being an empath. I thought some of them were stronger than others because some seemed very ritualistic and complicated such as doing a lot of visual work while trying to stay present in interactions. A standout technique were the protective shields. This is an innovative technique that makes energy protection creative and fun. I also thought the cord cutting exercise was unique and more hands on compared to other cord cutting techniques.
Overall this book is a must read for those who are struggling with being an empath because you will finish this book feeling less burdened and overwhelmed by your gifts and you will come to understand that emotional equilibrium is in fact achievable.
What I particularly liked about this book was that it teaches you how to become more self-aware, so it’s not about hating your empathic abilities or placing the blame on other people for the way you feel. In this sense, this was a self-empowering book that made me feel proud and confident being an empath. There were many exercises outlined in the book to help cope with the emotional tsunami’s of being an empath. I thought some of them were stronger than others because some seemed very ritualistic and complicated such as doing a lot of visual work while trying to stay present in interactions. A standout technique were the protective shields. This is an innovative technique that makes energy protection creative and fun. I also thought the cord cutting exercise was unique and more hands on compared to other cord cutting techniques.
Overall this book is a must read for those who are struggling with being an empath because you will finish this book feeling less burdened and overwhelmed by your gifts and you will come to understand that emotional equilibrium is in fact achievable.
February 28, 2019
I've been wondering if I'm an empath for a while so when I saw this on NetGalley, I had to snap it up, what better way to find out if I am? Well, this was the perfect book for me. Not only does it cover the basics, like what is empathy but it goes into ways to protect yourself with shields, how to turn negative feeling into positive ones, even some shadow work. I was very overwhelmed with all the information in this book - in the best way!
I've never read anything else by this author but I plan to change that, because I love the writing style and how much they seem to know about this topic. I will say that some of the exercises in this book that aren't beginner friendly but something to work towards, which is fine by me, I have some things to do now and some for later.
Overall, I just really love this book, I don't have a single bad thing to say about it.
I've never read anything else by this author but I plan to change that, because I love the writing style and how much they seem to know about this topic. I will say that some of the exercises in this book that aren't beginner friendly but something to work towards, which is fine by me, I have some things to do now and some for later.
Overall, I just really love this book, I don't have a single bad thing to say about it.
April 5, 2019
I have read the author's previous book Esoteric Empathy, and while it was quite helpful to me as am empath, it was also a bit over my head at times. This new one was more accessible, and again provided me with a ton of resources and techniques to keep in my empath tool box.
Raven writes with a friendly tone, and explains complicated concept in a straightforward manner. He provides citations and resources in places where the reader may need or want to seek further information.
What I appreciate most about Raven's writing for empaths is that he is not instructing us on how to merely survive bring an empath, but to see it as the gift it truly is. He reminds us that we are not simply sponges for others' emotions and energy, and that we have a responsibility to spread our joyful light and possess the ability to transform others' energy within us and release it into the world at a higher frequency. This was all mind blowing stuff to me at first. To say it has changed my life is an understatement. I no longer see being an empath as a burden at any time, which I used to occasionally. Now I feel as if I have a super power and am continually striving to learn more and practice different strategies for self care, keeping in mind my sensitive without any shame or guilt.
Many thanks to NetGalley for an advanced digital copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
Raven writes with a friendly tone, and explains complicated concept in a straightforward manner. He provides citations and resources in places where the reader may need or want to seek further information.
What I appreciate most about Raven's writing for empaths is that he is not instructing us on how to merely survive bring an empath, but to see it as the gift it truly is. He reminds us that we are not simply sponges for others' emotions and energy, and that we have a responsibility to spread our joyful light and possess the ability to transform others' energy within us and release it into the world at a higher frequency. This was all mind blowing stuff to me at first. To say it has changed my life is an understatement. I no longer see being an empath as a burden at any time, which I used to occasionally. Now I feel as if I have a super power and am continually striving to learn more and practice different strategies for self care, keeping in mind my sensitive without any shame or guilt.
Many thanks to NetGalley for an advanced digital copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
February 9, 2020
This a a HOW To guide on Highly sensitive Empath souls , I really enjoyed this book and see myself rereading it because it has useable practical advice from a REAL PRACTICiONAL teacher , this is a book 📖 that dives much more Deep level on living as a Empath more than the bare surface basics, you’ll receive knowledge to practice on and sure helps for Clarity on all areas on Empathy, easy to read recommend 👍🏻
September 8, 2019
There was a lot of content in this book that really resonated with me, and a lot that really didn't. As such, let me discuss The Everyday Empath on its merits as a type of self-help book, and then in light of my own lens so that it might inform others'.
For those who are empaths (I count myself as one of them), this book will put a name and energy to something you may not have realized is part of your identity. Too, you might even realize that that trait is a core part of your identity. Taking on the emotions of others can be exhausting, so it can be very helpful not only realize these things, but also realize that the trait as not only beneficial but also empowering, to yourself and others.
A good part of the book, in fact, is spent talking about self-care for empaths and helping them to dissect what, to them, is an automatic process. This concept of self-care, especially the way Raven Digitalis talks about it, is something that I have only recently internalized as important to my well-being, and while he is not the first to talk about self-care per se, he's the first to write about it in the context of empathy and as a way to balance out the energies we spend putting ourselves' in other peoples' shoes, at least that I know of. That alone was helpful.
I tend to judge nonfiction books, especially in the "how-to" or "self-help" vein, on the expertise of the author; the number of real-life examples given; the ability of the author to relate to the audience, and the extent to which the advice given is practical or the book feels "workbooky." Raven Digitalis knows what he's talking about (just read his GoodReads bio), and provides a number of real-life examples, although I would've liked to see more, preferably with people in a variety of circumstances. The author does relate to his audience on a regular basis, but I feel like the book would have been stronger if there were more pages in which the readers were asked to what extent they identified with what was in each chapter, if they envisioned being able to put the advice given into their lives and how, etc.
Looking at the contents of Everyday Empath through my own moral lens definitely provided another way to view this book. My lens, for example, doesn't include envisioning instances of anger or aggression as external energies that change in color as I subdue them. This is not to say that I haven't gone through somewhat similar exercises with my therapist, but when mention of "chakras" was made, I realized that things outside my normal realm of knowledge and experience were being introduced. I find value in reading books and other materials by those not of my own belief systems so that I can understand those people better, but when "spells" cast during the waning cycle of the moon were mentioned as a way of transforming negative thinking and its resulting behavioral patterns, I realized I was even farther out of my comfort zone than normal.
For those of you who are familiar with those terms, and who are empaths, this book may be of great value to you then. For me, it took a little longer to read because of my unfamiliarity with them.
For those who are empaths (I count myself as one of them), this book will put a name and energy to something you may not have realized is part of your identity. Too, you might even realize that that trait is a core part of your identity. Taking on the emotions of others can be exhausting, so it can be very helpful not only realize these things, but also realize that the trait as not only beneficial but also empowering, to yourself and others.
A good part of the book, in fact, is spent talking about self-care for empaths and helping them to dissect what, to them, is an automatic process. This concept of self-care, especially the way Raven Digitalis talks about it, is something that I have only recently internalized as important to my well-being, and while he is not the first to talk about self-care per se, he's the first to write about it in the context of empathy and as a way to balance out the energies we spend putting ourselves' in other peoples' shoes, at least that I know of. That alone was helpful.
I tend to judge nonfiction books, especially in the "how-to" or "self-help" vein, on the expertise of the author; the number of real-life examples given; the ability of the author to relate to the audience, and the extent to which the advice given is practical or the book feels "workbooky." Raven Digitalis knows what he's talking about (just read his GoodReads bio), and provides a number of real-life examples, although I would've liked to see more, preferably with people in a variety of circumstances. The author does relate to his audience on a regular basis, but I feel like the book would have been stronger if there were more pages in which the readers were asked to what extent they identified with what was in each chapter, if they envisioned being able to put the advice given into their lives and how, etc.
Looking at the contents of Everyday Empath through my own moral lens definitely provided another way to view this book. My lens, for example, doesn't include envisioning instances of anger or aggression as external energies that change in color as I subdue them. This is not to say that I haven't gone through somewhat similar exercises with my therapist, but when mention of "chakras" was made, I realized that things outside my normal realm of knowledge and experience were being introduced. I find value in reading books and other materials by those not of my own belief systems so that I can understand those people better, but when "spells" cast during the waning cycle of the moon were mentioned as a way of transforming negative thinking and its resulting behavioral patterns, I realized I was even farther out of my comfort zone than normal.
For those of you who are familiar with those terms, and who are empaths, this book may be of great value to you then. For me, it took a little longer to read because of my unfamiliarity with them.
October 21, 2025
The Everyday Empath is meant to be read along with Esoteric Empathy (2016) but can also be worked through as a standalone title.
It begins by explaining empathy – or how we feel and relate to others before ourselves. This is the book that I wish many politicians would (be made to) read.
It’s for people who are highly in tune with their emotions, but also for anyone who has heard that they are emotionally disconnected, abrasive or selfish: the book doesn’t make anyone “feel bad” about who they are, but teaches you the responsibility to work with your own emotions in relation to others.
The Everyday Empath encourages you to feel comfortable with yourself, and to have positive interactions with the world around you. It emphasizes the importance of grounding, shielding and better understanding.
It’s not a book of spells, but leaves room for individual exercises and rituals if the reader wants to explore this.
Exercises are about the emotional or empathic self, like “Overloaded: A Bathtime Cleansing” to balance and restore your emotions. You’ll also find rituals like “Self-Limiting Cord Cutting” in Chapter 3.
The Everyday Empath talks about vision boards and shrines, too – or putting your emotions into a tangible form. A separate section urges you to find your own creative emotional outlet. It’s especially useful for anyone who doesn’t have an artistic background, but still finds it cathartic to create.
How do you cope with your emotions on a daily basis? How do others cope with your emotions on a daily basis? How do you react and act in relation to the world around you? These are all things the book makes you think about, and there’s no point where it feels like a sermon or lecture.
You’ll feel refreshed after The Everyday Empath , and like you’ve been fully recharged for what comes next. This is a self-help book in the true sense of the word – though importantly, reminds the reader that “self-help” also means helping others through empathic service.
The book ends with a list of further reading, especially useful for bookworms and knowledge-seekers. Like always, Raven’s research has been done to the letter.
A list of further reading at the end, which is great for bookworms or knowledge-seekers.
If Jesus, the Buddha and John Lennon put their thoughts about peace into the same book, this is close to what you would find.
It begins by explaining empathy – or how we feel and relate to others before ourselves. This is the book that I wish many politicians would (be made to) read.
It’s for people who are highly in tune with their emotions, but also for anyone who has heard that they are emotionally disconnected, abrasive or selfish: the book doesn’t make anyone “feel bad” about who they are, but teaches you the responsibility to work with your own emotions in relation to others.
The Everyday Empath encourages you to feel comfortable with yourself, and to have positive interactions with the world around you. It emphasizes the importance of grounding, shielding and better understanding.
It’s not a book of spells, but leaves room for individual exercises and rituals if the reader wants to explore this.
Exercises are about the emotional or empathic self, like “Overloaded: A Bathtime Cleansing” to balance and restore your emotions. You’ll also find rituals like “Self-Limiting Cord Cutting” in Chapter 3.
The Everyday Empath talks about vision boards and shrines, too – or putting your emotions into a tangible form. A separate section urges you to find your own creative emotional outlet. It’s especially useful for anyone who doesn’t have an artistic background, but still finds it cathartic to create.
How do you cope with your emotions on a daily basis? How do others cope with your emotions on a daily basis? How do you react and act in relation to the world around you? These are all things the book makes you think about, and there’s no point where it feels like a sermon or lecture.
You’ll feel refreshed after The Everyday Empath , and like you’ve been fully recharged for what comes next. This is a self-help book in the true sense of the word – though importantly, reminds the reader that “self-help” also means helping others through empathic service.
The book ends with a list of further reading, especially useful for bookworms and knowledge-seekers. Like always, Raven’s research has been done to the letter.
A list of further reading at the end, which is great for bookworms or knowledge-seekers.
If Jesus, the Buddha and John Lennon put their thoughts about peace into the same book, this is close to what you would find.
October 10, 2020
I have to preface my review by saying that there are a lot of books about empaths out there and I feel that very few of them are good. So this falls within the average range for me.
The author says several times in various ways that everyone is an empath in some way. She also calls people "developing empaths." On the other hand she makes large, sweeping generalizations about all empaths. She talks about "true empaths" and "us empaths." So just the language of what we are talking about when we discuss empaths was pretty murky.
My biggest concern for the book was that the organization was pretty confusing. I can kind of see what the author was trying to do, but it wasn't very clear. Exercises at the end of each chapter don't always seem to relate to the chapter itself. I couldn't figure out the point of her "everyday empathic techniques" in each chapter. She seems to think that empaths all have terrible social skills. It wasn't until page 67 that I finally figured out that the author's purpose in the book is to give empaths everyday strategies to avoid getting overwhelmed with everyday interactions. Aha! Things started to make a little sense. Although, I didn't think that assuming all empaths have terrible social skills is the best way to go about this, at least I had a better understanding of the premise of the book.
In the end, the author has some decent ideas and suggestions, but they are hard to find in the midst of all the other stuff. Honestly, most of this book would be applicable to a large portion of the population. There wasn't much that I felt was really empath-specific (which maybe was the point since the authors thinks we are "developing empaths?").
If you are new to the world of empaths, this might not be the best first book to start with. Go with something a little simpler and more straightforward. If you are experienced in the world of empaths, this book would be easier for you to read and evaluate its content for yourself.
The author says several times in various ways that everyone is an empath in some way. She also calls people "developing empaths." On the other hand she makes large, sweeping generalizations about all empaths. She talks about "true empaths" and "us empaths." So just the language of what we are talking about when we discuss empaths was pretty murky.
My biggest concern for the book was that the organization was pretty confusing. I can kind of see what the author was trying to do, but it wasn't very clear. Exercises at the end of each chapter don't always seem to relate to the chapter itself. I couldn't figure out the point of her "everyday empathic techniques" in each chapter. She seems to think that empaths all have terrible social skills. It wasn't until page 67 that I finally figured out that the author's purpose in the book is to give empaths everyday strategies to avoid getting overwhelmed with everyday interactions. Aha! Things started to make a little sense. Although, I didn't think that assuming all empaths have terrible social skills is the best way to go about this, at least I had a better understanding of the premise of the book.
In the end, the author has some decent ideas and suggestions, but they are hard to find in the midst of all the other stuff. Honestly, most of this book would be applicable to a large portion of the population. There wasn't much that I felt was really empath-specific (which maybe was the point since the authors thinks we are "developing empaths?").
If you are new to the world of empaths, this might not be the best first book to start with. Go with something a little simpler and more straightforward. If you are experienced in the world of empaths, this book would be easier for you to read and evaluate its content for yourself.
March 19, 2019
I have read the author's previous work and found each book of hers very enlightening and educational. I like the quality of her writing which is very straightforward. I was pleased to receive this for review from the publisher and Net Galley. My opinion is my own.
As a Empath Sensitive I appreciated how the author teaches us to live with our gift. It is of utmost importance as a Empath to learn of shields, self care and boundaries. The author teaches this as a matter of importance to the reader and teaches us how to protect ourselves while embracing our gift.
The techniques taught here are very accessible, and give the reader resources we need to survive.
It is important to note that the author teaches us how not to absorb other's energy and emotions and to have the ability to care for our gift, ourselves while being joyful in life . She teaches us that it is possible to manager our gift and bring light to the world. This will alter your life and your view of your life as a empath as it did for me.
I appreciate all the different strategies for self care and will be utilizing the techniques and this book for many years to come. I highly recommend this book for your education in being an Empath Sensitive. Very well done to the author. This book is quite simply life changing.
As a Empath Sensitive I appreciated how the author teaches us to live with our gift. It is of utmost importance as a Empath to learn of shields, self care and boundaries. The author teaches this as a matter of importance to the reader and teaches us how to protect ourselves while embracing our gift.
The techniques taught here are very accessible, and give the reader resources we need to survive.
It is important to note that the author teaches us how not to absorb other's energy and emotions and to have the ability to care for our gift, ourselves while being joyful in life . She teaches us that it is possible to manager our gift and bring light to the world. This will alter your life and your view of your life as a empath as it did for me.
I appreciate all the different strategies for self care and will be utilizing the techniques and this book for many years to come. I highly recommend this book for your education in being an Empath Sensitive. Very well done to the author. This book is quite simply life changing.
May 8, 2024
I’m really intrigued by the concept of being an empath, and I’d love to read a book that really deep dives into exactly what that means and looks like. Unfortunately this book felt more like someone just trying to fill the space with a bunch of common knowledge “advice” for how “empaths” can take care of themselves—which is really just basic advice for things anyone should do… eat well, exercise, take a relaxing bath, volunteer at the animal shelter. It felt like this person just wanted to write a book and had to come up with something, rather than having actual information to impart about the topic.
July 22, 2019
I loved that book and realized that being an empath is really a great gift. I struggled a lot when I realized that I could feel other peoples emotions in addition to mine. I felt overwhelmed. But not anymore. I can detach and set boundaries now. More important, I can transmute those emotions into love and compassion. Thank you.
I also loved learning about journaling about my emotions on art pieces in any form. It really helped me to express those emotions about wunderful movies that I saw, or other art pieces, and gain insights about myself and what's in my heart.
I also loved learning about journaling about my emotions on art pieces in any form. It really helped me to express those emotions about wunderful movies that I saw, or other art pieces, and gain insights about myself and what's in my heart.
March 27, 2019
This truly is an "everyday" style book with easy to follow techniques to help you understand and enhance your empath abilities. I LOVED the tone and writing style. I felt like it was a conversation and I was receiving advice from a good friend. It was casual and simple to follow without a lot of jargon and technical talk. I particularly enjoyed the step by step instructions on how to complete various tasks. Great book to start learning about your energies as an empath!
April 7, 2019
Some helpful stuff here, but also a lot of rambling & stuff that didn’t resonate for me. Probably more useful or interesting to people who are really new to the idea of empaths at all, very new to any spiritual inner work, &/or people who don’t already have a specific spiritual or religious framework in their life that they find helpful & supportive. For me, Judith Orloff’s The Empath’s Survival Guide was much more helpful.
July 16, 2019
(3.5 stars) This book was a guide to self care tailored to Empaths on a journey to spiritual enlightenment. I enjoyed the different exercises and guided meditations and have bookmarked some to do at a later time. Overall I don’t think any of the information is new or life changing but it is a concise resource for empaths and the struggles we deal with day to day. *ARC provided by NetGalley for review.
August 23, 2019
I received a copy of this book for a fair and honest review. I was pleased to find out this author was from my home state. I picked this book because I could relate to it. I loved the activities and getting a better and complete understanding of what an empath is and what that means. It helped me focus in on a few things. I used to wonder why I would get so emotional involved in things. Ihave a better understanding and that is helping me look to the future. That is something that I needed.
December 21, 2021
As an empath I am, this book provides me multiple necessary informations that I didn't know when it comes to protecting my energy and self-emotional aware. I felt a comfort within me that there's many empaths out there struggling to fight for inner peace everyday like I am. However, it didn't give me the appropriate tools and techniques in self-help levels. I have found other books out there that are more helpful for me.
This book is deserved 3 stars rating from me for the informations I gained from reading it and I felt very related from his writing in personal level.
This book is deserved 3 stars rating from me for the informations I gained from reading it and I felt very related from his writing in personal level.
March 10, 2019
This is a straight-forward, well done, and highly useful book for those who have empathic tendencies or abilities. I found The Everyday Empath to have relevant and well-informed layout and information. If you are interested in Empaths or feel you may be an Empath, I feel that this is very much a decent book to help facilitate learning, controlling, and maintaining empathic abilities.
May 15, 2024
This book was quite nice, but the author gives me a bad vibe 🤔🤔 I think it was the mention of conducting healing work without someone's consent, isn't it better to ask if they are okay/if there's anything they need then ignoring what they want? The use of "ethnic" also made me feel real uncomfortable.
April 23, 2025
This book is wonderful . From the soothing and beautiful cover to the end of the book… I always felt like the author was giving me a hug when I read his tips on how to share and hold onto good energy, as an empath.
January 30, 2022
It was very insightful and reminded me of things that I do and why. Helpful and educational of the how and why of an empath.
February 24, 2019
The Everyday Empath, by Raven Digitalis, focuses on the intersection of empathic abilities with daily life. It mostly covers the management of empathy (shielding, grounding, etc).
Self-care for empaths and the emotionally sensitive takes center stage in the book. Mr. Digitalis makes it clear that empathic self-care can have positive repercussions for those around you and the world at large. It delves a bit into using one’s empathic abilities proactively, too.
I read Mr. Digitalis’s first book on empathy, Esoteric Empathy, almost immediately after it was released. I enjoyed the blend of spiritual speculation and practical psychological advice in that one. This one (a companion to the earlier book) covers more basic, less speculative material, and might best be read prior to Esoteric Empathy.
Prior to Mr. Digitalis’s books, my experience with self-identified empaths tended to come from Facebook. And on Facebook? A lot of claims about esoteric empathy are just people projecting or looking for a magical excuse for emotional lability.
That said, empathy, in both the ordinary and esoteric senses, is very much a real facet of human existence. It’s worthy of significant scholarship from an occult perspective considering the influence of emotions on magical praxis.
To be frank, Mr. Digitalis’s work on empathy in an esoteric context is a breath of fresh air. You will not find much in the way of self-pity or aggrandizement here - Mr. Digitalis is unfailingly down-to-earth, while also willing to draw sharp lines around what he does, and does not, see as productive for empaths. I found his work incredibly genuine, useful, and sensible.
I consider myself to have slightly higher than normal empathic abilities when it comes to other people, but full-blown paranormal empathy in terms of animals. That sounds weird, but it’s not all that uncommon for empaths to have a “specialty” like that. For me, it seems to be part of my therianthropy, but it is not hard to see that many empaths, therian or not, do have a sort of focus or specialty.
Mr. Digitalis doesn’t talk terribly much about such specialties, though - the book is suitable for most empaths, especially those just beginning to understand the phenomenon.
The section in this book on different types of shields is absolutely golden, and very creative. It’ll be helpful for any empath, and also anyone interested in energy work. There’s a discussion of elemental shields and also using crystal imagery when shielding. I found the latter extremely helpful for me personally, and the former is pretty cool, too.
The chapter on rhythms and cycles was particularly pertinent to me, and I was glad that Mr. Digitalis acknowledges such things vary. So many spiritual books assume the reader keeps to a “normal” sleep schedule, but not so here! Mr. Digitalis himself admits to being a night owl, and admits that we’re all different.
There’s some talk of astrological cycles, too - frankly, I think more could be written about this, and it wasn’t covered in nearly enough depth in the book. I thought the inclusion of basic astrological data (what Mercury, Venus, etc signify) was a bit superfluous. I mean, as I said, much more could be written about it, and it seemed a bit silly to just cover such a small amount of information. If you’re already well-versed in astrology, you can skip this part, either way.
Many of the exercises in mindfulness that Mr. Digitalis describes would not be out of place in a cognitive or dialectical behavioral therapy regimen. Its appropriate and heartening, then, that he delivers a nice, woo-free perspective on mental health and empathy. He admits that things like talk therapy and medication can be useful, even to the most gifted of empaths.
Even more refreshingly, he also clarifies that such things can help develop empathic gifts, honing them rather than shutting them down. In the current climate, with so much misinformation about psychology and psychiatry in the esoteric community, this is quite heartening to read.
I give this book four out of five stars. It is a good primer for beginners and a stepping-stone to more advanced understanding. The book’s main flaw is that it tries to cover far too much information in a short span. Nevertheless, it’s a good read and a welcome addition to any witch’s bookshelf, with creative exercises, vivid visualization ideas, and thought-provoking commentary.
Self-care for empaths and the emotionally sensitive takes center stage in the book. Mr. Digitalis makes it clear that empathic self-care can have positive repercussions for those around you and the world at large. It delves a bit into using one’s empathic abilities proactively, too.
I read Mr. Digitalis’s first book on empathy, Esoteric Empathy, almost immediately after it was released. I enjoyed the blend of spiritual speculation and practical psychological advice in that one. This one (a companion to the earlier book) covers more basic, less speculative material, and might best be read prior to Esoteric Empathy.
Prior to Mr. Digitalis’s books, my experience with self-identified empaths tended to come from Facebook. And on Facebook? A lot of claims about esoteric empathy are just people projecting or looking for a magical excuse for emotional lability.
That said, empathy, in both the ordinary and esoteric senses, is very much a real facet of human existence. It’s worthy of significant scholarship from an occult perspective considering the influence of emotions on magical praxis.
To be frank, Mr. Digitalis’s work on empathy in an esoteric context is a breath of fresh air. You will not find much in the way of self-pity or aggrandizement here - Mr. Digitalis is unfailingly down-to-earth, while also willing to draw sharp lines around what he does, and does not, see as productive for empaths. I found his work incredibly genuine, useful, and sensible.
I consider myself to have slightly higher than normal empathic abilities when it comes to other people, but full-blown paranormal empathy in terms of animals. That sounds weird, but it’s not all that uncommon for empaths to have a “specialty” like that. For me, it seems to be part of my therianthropy, but it is not hard to see that many empaths, therian or not, do have a sort of focus or specialty.
Mr. Digitalis doesn’t talk terribly much about such specialties, though - the book is suitable for most empaths, especially those just beginning to understand the phenomenon.
The section in this book on different types of shields is absolutely golden, and very creative. It’ll be helpful for any empath, and also anyone interested in energy work. There’s a discussion of elemental shields and also using crystal imagery when shielding. I found the latter extremely helpful for me personally, and the former is pretty cool, too.
The chapter on rhythms and cycles was particularly pertinent to me, and I was glad that Mr. Digitalis acknowledges such things vary. So many spiritual books assume the reader keeps to a “normal” sleep schedule, but not so here! Mr. Digitalis himself admits to being a night owl, and admits that we’re all different.
There’s some talk of astrological cycles, too - frankly, I think more could be written about this, and it wasn’t covered in nearly enough depth in the book. I thought the inclusion of basic astrological data (what Mercury, Venus, etc signify) was a bit superfluous. I mean, as I said, much more could be written about it, and it seemed a bit silly to just cover such a small amount of information. If you’re already well-versed in astrology, you can skip this part, either way.
Many of the exercises in mindfulness that Mr. Digitalis describes would not be out of place in a cognitive or dialectical behavioral therapy regimen. Its appropriate and heartening, then, that he delivers a nice, woo-free perspective on mental health and empathy. He admits that things like talk therapy and medication can be useful, even to the most gifted of empaths.
Even more refreshingly, he also clarifies that such things can help develop empathic gifts, honing them rather than shutting them down. In the current climate, with so much misinformation about psychology and psychiatry in the esoteric community, this is quite heartening to read.
I give this book four out of five stars. It is a good primer for beginners and a stepping-stone to more advanced understanding. The book’s main flaw is that it tries to cover far too much information in a short span. Nevertheless, it’s a good read and a welcome addition to any witch’s bookshelf, with creative exercises, vivid visualization ideas, and thought-provoking commentary.
March 11, 2019
I absolutely enjoyed this book. I felt it covered all aspects of being an empath. It is very comprehensive. I voluntarily read this book via NetGalley in exchange for my honest opinion.
April 3, 2019
If you've ever questioned if you are an empath, or what being an empath means than this is the book for you. It starts at the beginning by first helping you discover whether you self identify as an empathy and what your abilities as an empath are. It really helps with empath self care by teaching how to protect oneself from negative energies using shielding techniques, and grounding for when things are a little too much, as well as many other helpful tips, techniques, and exercises. Highly recommended.
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