Judith Orloff

A weekly journal for relection on 52 affirmations to help sensitive, caring, empathic people flourish. Each week's offering is an affirmation followed by pages for writing, drawing, and dreaming. Dr. Judith Orloff invites readers to work with each affirmation for a week—to meditate on it, contemplate it, and live it in their daily lives.

A Year of Guided Journaling

Affirmations for Empaths

Latitude Tamarind

I really liked this book, against all odds (ie: I do not find the term “empaths” useful). This book doesn’t even really define what it means by ‘empaths’, and often what they mean is something more like “autistic” or even just “sensitive to stimuli” (see the Highly Sensitive Person diagnosis, which in my unprofessional opinion is just autism or even PTSD). This book is set up as a journal, so it introduces an affirmation and then it has several pages for journaling with small prompts. I find this really helpful because the number 1 problem I have with “try telling yourself an affirmation” is that I feel like all affirmations either feel fake or I can’t come up with my own. I also liked that a lot of these affirmations can count as goals for a week, such as “I tune in to my energy level throughout the day. I know how I am feeling and respect my body’s needs”. This affirmation feels Particularly Autistic to me: “I empower myself as an empath every time I decrease stimulation in the face of sensory overload.” Some of these feel a little, uhh, weird to me, such as “My natural empathy makes my body, mind, and spirit, strong and resilient.”, especially because I think you could replace “natural empathy” with literally anything else, but also if you picked up this book you know what I signed up for. I personally will be replacing it with ‘my autism’ or ‘my self’. Four stars.

Affirmations for Empaths A Year of Guided Journaling

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