What NOT to tell that empath in your life

Don’t be too sensitive.

Let me toughen you up to protect you from the outer world.

You’re immature. Let me show you how grown-ups are supposed to act.

If you’re reading the above, I have a hunch you would never say such things, right?

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Being a Highly Sensitive Person is a well-documented scientific fact. If people are born as HSPs, they will never, ever be non-HSPs.

Sure, they can be made into stressed-out, cringing, neurotic HSPs. But that won’t make them one whit less sensitive, deep down.

Empaths are different from HSPs. You can definitely learn to recognize an empath. Resources for Highly Sensitive Persons are completely different.

An HSP might benefit a great deal from techniques for Empath Empowerment. But empaths will not have their more specialized problems solved with standard ways to address the concerns of HSPs.

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Being an empath is also completely different from being co-dependent. It’s important to recognize that codependency is a problem but being an empath isn’t… at least once that empath gets skills.

And, in the words of the great James Taylor song, “That’s why I’m here.”

You can’t change an unskilled empath into a Skilled Empath. But you can steer that empath in your life towards becoming skilled, either through this website or the resources available through this website.

Tough Love for empaths

Just because you don’t bully an empath, or disrespect an empath, or consider it sheer nonsense about being born as an empath… that doesn’t mean you are obligated to be taken advantage of, either.

Click here for some practical ideas about Tough Love for empaths.