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bee_phe's review
2.0
i am highly sensitive, always have been, and working on cultivating a healthy spiritual practice. recently this book was recommended to me by 2 people so i gave it a read to see what it was all about and i uuuuhhhhh i hated it.
it was compassionately written and helped me understand myself in some ways. however i found it repetitive and problematic in a lot of places. i didnt care for the multiple implications that "your feelings are other people's responsibility." there were suggestions in it that genuinely made me nauseous, like the stories of empathic people making ridiculous requests of others. (for example, berating a friend for having a heated conversation on the phone in front of said empath, when it would be far more appropriate for the empath to simply leave the situation)
i think the message is universal: be kind, take care of yourself and others, do the work, live in compassion and love. but the tone of the book really seemed to emphasize "otherness" which is not what i want to see in a book with heavy spiritual leanings. i really wanted to like it and use it as a manual to help me live from my compassionate heart space in a grounded way, but it honestly just made my skin crawl a lot of the time.
it was compassionately written and helped me understand myself in some ways. however i found it repetitive and problematic in a lot of places. i didnt care for the multiple implications that "your feelings are other people's responsibility." there were suggestions in it that genuinely made me nauseous, like the stories of empathic people making ridiculous requests of others. (for example, berating a friend for having a heated conversation on the phone in front of said empath, when it would be far more appropriate for the empath to simply leave the situation)
i think the message is universal: be kind, take care of yourself and others, do the work, live in compassion and love. but the tone of the book really seemed to emphasize "otherness" which is not what i want to see in a book with heavy spiritual leanings. i really wanted to like it and use it as a manual to help me live from my compassionate heart space in a grounded way, but it honestly just made my skin crawl a lot of the time.
fischers_reads's review
medium-paced
5.0
I’ve never been seen so much in my life! Growing up I was always told I was “too sensitive” or that I needed to not let things affect me like they do. The beginning of this book I highlighted so much. Towards the end I didn’t feel like I connected to being those type of empaths. Regardless, I enjoyed this book and I felt like the author explained things perfectly!I’m
ashleyhosmer's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
5.0
aya_the_papaya's review
2.0
Way too unscientific and fluffy for me, but had a few good nuggets. Didn't finish the whole book to be fair, but that in itself says a lot.
holly_keimig's review
2.0
This book has some good tips. I did find myself relating to several of the topics mentioned in this book and feel like I have some empathetic tendencies for sure. That said, there was a lot of moments where it was less scientific/self-help focused and more new age. I also had the sense the whole time that if you did not agree with the author on something, you were thought of as "wrong" which really made it hard for me to stomach some of the advice. A good introduction to people who haven't had any introduction to empathy before, but I feel there are likely better books out there for those of a more scientific background to understand and deal with their empathy.