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my name is Elise Lebeau and i'm a professional intuitive
and an empath
I didn't use that word
for many years
because it just wasn't used in the context of
something real that can happen to people in everyday life
and this is something that happens to me in everyday life
uh... an empath
is someone who experiences the emotions of other people after all
meaning when somebody else is sad
it's not that you can sympathize with them op and imagine yourself in their
place is that you actually feel sadness
you experience it
this can happen
in away that can be very confusing
for empaths
in the sense that if you're somehow connected with someone or even
in proximity to people
for example you neighbor or a best friend is having some kind of
strong emotional response it's possible that you can
pick up on that and start feeling this way
when this started happening to me
eleven years ago
i didn't know what was going on
i was very confused
and there wasn't a lot of information
that i could fight about this. I spent eight years studying psychology
in college
and I knew that i was experiencing was dangerously close to
being psychotic made up stuff
however they were experiences that kept happening to me that would
confirm or validate that when i was experiencing had some basis in reality
and that's how i started to write articles just about my experience
and at the time i didn't see any books on empaths and
I googled that word is because I used to
watch star trek when i was little
and there was a character
that was an empath and that's what i found online
i found a lot of reference to this fictional character
i'll supply references to fictional t_v_ shows
um... there was also that there is a game role-playing game that refer
to this term
and there was a few website new age ones, that would talk about
this but i could not relate to these
so i have started to
write down
things that
i'd experienced
and
more specifically about things that helped me
and this is why
I am reaching out to you here i'm gonna tell you a few things
about
uh... my experience in hopes that if you're wondering if you're in empath, it
might help you
figure things out or faster than i did and maybe a little less emotional trauma
uh... there's two
main
tools that i'd feel helped me
in my journey
uh... not only
and understanding
but accepting the fact that
being an empath is something that
can happen to anyone
and it's something that were typically born with
uh... but there is usually
uh... moments where you realize it, i call this the awakening
you realize that something's different about you
or you realize that all those emotions that youre feeling don't allow it to you
because they don't make sense in your everyday life
and those are typical experiences of an empath
and so
i dedicated
uh...
my website
to
describing
what is the empath experience so that people can read this and answer that
question are you an empath?
and from there there is
almost a sense of relief
you know that first of all get crazy and you're not alone in this experience
there's a to tools that i developed in addition
for when you realize that something is different about you and you have
questions, a lot of questions i know i had a lot of time
and i really couldn't find people who could help me
i was alone
in my journey and understanding but this was and why was experiencing it and how
to deal with it
and so
that's how i developed first of all the empath survival program which is
seven techniques that i've used over the years uh... over and over again
to help me management experiences
Another tool that
i found extremely helpful is that
when i realized that
i was probably not alone however i didn't know how to
uh... to reach out to people who are like me i thought well maybe i should
just make a website for empaths and we'll see what happens
uh... and that's how the empath community was born
and
it's an amazing to see it
throughout the years that's been
going for six seven years now
uh... in the beginning was mostly just me
you know once in awhile somebody would join them
it was very tentative the conversations where very
uh... any always started with I am crazy ... or are you crazy?
but in time a it became more known there was more information or
websites
in the search results for impacts on google due with less and less reference
to fantasy games and science fiction characters and more and more references
to people
who were asking this question i might in fact what is this impact experience and
does it have a basis in reality
and eventually
i drew upon the experience i had and wrote
a phd thesis on empaths
where I explore that question you know
is it real?
uh... and these are all the resources that i'd want you to have
because i know how painful it was for me to be alone in this and i don't want you
to be
i wanted to have
as many shortcuts as are available
as many ways that you can moved forward right now and you can
start to feel
that you understand yourself better and also start to feel empowered that you
can do something about the experts is that you're having
to modulate to control them too
to use then in your life in the way that makes it better not worse
and that's what you'll find
uh... in
my work
basically
so i just wanted to say hi and i wanted to say and i loved you not crazy
and i'm really hoping that you can find peace
in exploring when it means to be an empath