Why are you here? The story behind the Empath Community...

[Elise Lebeau]

If you're relatively new to our Empath Community, you probably don't know that this web site was created at the request of my Spirit Guide, Ted. It came through as such a profoundly powerful urge that I cried my eyes out when I finally hit the switch and turned the site on.

But, because I could not see the whole path ahead of me, I started to feel how this was just a "drop in the bucket". I had suffered hell for years because I did not know what I was or what to do about it. And I felt that creating this unknown web site about an even less known situation, that of being an Empath, was likely to end up a waste of time, with me and maybe a couple of other people who had found it by accident.

But Ted insisted. Which surprised me because he never pushes me. So I figured this was important and kept coming back in the forums, even though I was mostly talking to myself...I religiously answered every post, sharing whatever information I had gathered about being an Empath.

I never publicized it. I never expected much from it. I was basically following instructions that this was, somehow, needed.

But people did find this place... And they mostly all had the same questions: What is this? How I can stop hurting from it? What can I do with it?

So Ted stepped in again and requested that I write the Empath Resource page and Survival Program (both of which you can find on the Resource tab).

I won't lie to you, this was not an easy process for me. I am a working mom with 2 jobs. So this was all happening at night when my son was asleep, during the 2 hours of consciousness I had before crashing into bed.

And yet when I look around here, I can see that something is happening.
I get several emails a week from people who's lives have been permanently changed for the better because of this community and the Empath Survival Program.

So I would like to join Ted in thanking you for being here.
This place would not exist without you.

Thank you to our new members who are probably confused and suffering. Your question allows us to share what we know and, in this very process, we all grow and learn. Thank you also for reaching out to other new members, so that they may feel welcomed here.

Thank you to the "veterans" who have been around for a while and who keep coming back to share their knowledge, support and challenges. You are the pillars of our community and I am profoundly grateful for your desire and ability to contribute selflessly to the well being of our fellow Empaths.

Being an Empath is not always pretty. It's not all rainbows and lollipops. But we all do our best to navigate these tumultuous waters while holding on to each other. Thank you for being that "other".

in amazingly love for every Empath in our community,
Elise & Ted

[KENNETH MORRIS]

I have joined some sites, in my search and from what you write above, this to has being my experience although me and my wife, have being upset by extreme external influences by a person who for sometime we could not figure out or adhere to as he called himself several attributes of being in touch with spirit, not one of them gave us any real answers to what was happening in are own life's long before he came on the scene, we might be able to help him more than he wanted to help us, if we knew how. But as I think, I may have already mentioned I'm a strong believer in what is otherwise known as psychic vampirism

[Rebecca S]

Hi there. I just found this and signed right up. I am crying as I write this as I feel like I can now find the tools to get control over this gift I have been given. Some days it is a true blessing and others a curse. Thank you so much for starting this community. I hope to make some friends here and to learn so much.

[Deb B.]

Thank you for starting this. It is wonderful to see a place after searching all week for somewhere i can talk to real people.

[Jane Justice]

Thank you for starting this website!! I will say that I am grateful to find other like me. I now do not feel so isolated and alone.

So why am I here? I think that I am seeking help in trying to control my abilities and also help my empathic son. This trait seems to be very prevelant in both sides of my family. So I got the double whammy in the DNA dept. I would consider myself a clairvoyant Empath. But my abilities were not truly known to me until this point in my life. I am 37 and I have had long bouts of depression in my life due to being such a highly sensitive individual. I am very creative (Painter, photographer, costume designer) have always been interested in ancient cultures and metaphysics. I never really understood my attraction to certain things or why I have always been so intuitive about places, people, animals and yes, even inanimate objects. If people around me are sick, depressed, sad, I too feel the same way. I am also affected by weather changes. I am like a human barometer. I know when a storm is coming and can often predict the weather ahead of time.

I have been through a lot of tragedy and hard knocks in my life. I always felt as if life just never treats me fairly. In 4 years I lost my husband, my father and nursed my mother through a 4 year battle with cancer and was with her when she died this past July. I have had trouble with personal relationships with men because of my ablities. I tend to be a "caretaker", overly generous and I let them treat me badly. Including the last one...but that's a whole story by itself.
I do think that this concentrated time of grief and strife that I have gone through has actually made me more aware and accepting of my abilities, it's made me stronger, capable of learning to control and shield others from hurting me with their strong emotions. I used to hate small confined spaces, elevators, crowds etc. It's gotten better for me, still a struggle, but better. Recently Ihave met someone who has sought out my intuitive empathic abilities. He is also going through some kind of spiritual awakening of some sorts. MY Clairvoyance is telling that my job with him is to help him realize that he is also an empath. So I am here because I am still learning what role my abilities are to play in my life, how to control the overwhelming emotions I feel from people and to help my son (Who has Asperger's), understand and control his abilities. I don't want him to struggle like I have for the last 37 years!

Jane