I Don't Want to Be an Empath Anymore: How to Reclaim Your Power Over Emotional Overload, Maintain Boundaries, and Live Your Best Life

by Ora North, Danielle Dulsky (Foreword by)

Overview

Do you feel all the feels—all the time? Are you fed up with the mainstream spiritual “love and light” scene that calls for constant positivity, even in the face of true loss, trauma, and pain? If so, this book is for you.

I Don’t Want to Be an Empath Anymore is a gift for the jaded empath searching for authenticity in spirituality, and spirituality in being authentic—something beyond the clichéd, positive affirmations that seem to invalidate our anger, sadness, and pain. When we feel broken—and when real damage has been done, it’s not always helpful to ignore our feelings and tell ourselves that we are perfect and whole.

In this refreshingly honest guide, shamanic practitioner Ora North offers practical exercises to help you navigate your intuition and empathic sensitivities, create much-needed boundaries, and build confidence. You’ll also learn to balance your emotions and energy, and harness the strength of your shadow side to embrace your whole self and live your best life.

Like the Japanese craft known as Kintsugi—the art of repairing broken pottery using a lacquer dusted with powdered gold—the process of acknowledging and repairing our fragmented selves can make us even more beautiful than before, cracks and all. In this book, you won’t find platitudes or attempts to whitewash your experiences. What you will find are real, practical tools and guidance to help you make the most of your unique abilities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781684034178
Publisher:	New Harbinger Publications
Publication date:	08/01/2019
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	408,406
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Ora North is a spiritual teacher, witch, and mental health advocate. While very involved in the spiritual community, North does not subscribe to the “love and light” or “good vibes only” mentality that can often whitewash or bypass the very real struggles of the marginalized. Because of this, her focus is on shadow work, and promoting the acceptance and validation of all of our feelings—not just the positive ones—as tools for growth. She is author of I Don’t Want to Be an Empath Anymore and Mood Magick.


Danielle Dulsky is author of The Holy Wild and Woman Most Wild.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii

Introduction 1

1 What the Hell Is an Empath? 9

2 No Light Without Darkness 25

3 Uncovering Core Wounds 43

4 Mastering Emotional Energy 57

5 Whose Feelings ARE These? 77

6 Working with Boundaries 93

7 Energetic Patterns in Relationships 109

8 Working Through Trauma 129

9 Epilogue 145

Resources 147

Acknowledgments 159

Interviews

North resides in Saint Paul, MN.

Editorial Reviews

Ora North has penned an instant classic. I Don’t Want to Be an Empath Anymore is the kind of book you immediately feel understood by; the kind of book that feels so perfect and obvious, you’re a little surprised it didn’t exist before it did. I devoured it and then gave it to my favorite people, because I wanted them to feel understood too.”
—Arden Leigh, creator of The Re-Patterning Project, and frontwoman of Arden and the Wolves

Arden Leigh

Ora North brings a raw and powerful look at the reality of being an empath. It’s not always glitter and unicorns; we must take a long, hard look at the wounds and shadows we hold; we must get real to heal. Ora skillfully guides us through this process so we can take off the spiritual mask and claim our true power as empaths.”
—Lisa Campion, Reiki master teacher, and author of The Art of Psychic Reiki

Lisa Campion

Ora North is the wise, witchy aunt I never had, who has arrived on the scene just when this heartbroken world needs her most. How I wish I could’ve read this bracing tonic of a book when I was sixteen, and so overwhelmed by confusing, painful emotions that all I could do was bury them. Ora reassures us in her straight-talking way that it’s never too late to witness and integrate our dark, scary feelings—and regain our equilibrium. Goddess bless her for doing this groundbreaking work, and for writing this compelling, enlightening book to empower sensitive souls like me!”
—Simone Butler, astrological consultant at www.astroalchemy.com, and author of Moon Power and Astro Feng Shui

Simone Butler

What a relief this book is! At turns fresh, familiar, frank, and funny, author Ora North manages to distill recovery models, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and shamanism into a coherent and accessible program for empathy management, self-healing, and relationship building. Don’t take the title seriously, though. After working the exercises in I Don’t Want to Be an Empath Anymore, you will not only be more comfortable being so deep in the world of emotion, you will have become adept at it and found yourself embracing what an asset your sensitivities are to yourself and others. Highly recommended.”
—Kathryn L. Robyn, healer, artist, author of Spiritual Housecleaning, and coauthor of The Emotional House

Kathryn L. Robyn

Ora tells the truth about what it means to be a deep-feeling person in this world. She blazes a way through the precarious world of self-inquiry, and she offers real-world tools that are restorative to the raw nerves of an empath. This book is a healing.”
—Erin Schroeder, The Psychic Witch, psychic teacher

Erin Schroeder

As a ‘cry of the millennial witch,’ this guidebook has much to offer those who need to effectively harness the powers of empathetic sensitivities rather than be consumed by them. The author speaks volumes to the various aspects of being an empath in our culture, such as the dangers of the ‘positive vibe only’ complacency, past trauma, and the neglect of certain emotions. She offers innovative exercises such as listing your victims and villains of your shadow self, a formula to write your own pain alchemy affirmation, throwing yourself a pity party, and creating voluntary energetic blindness. Bravo, Ms. North!!”
—Nancy Antenucci, owner of Between Worlds LLC, author of the beloved Psychic Tarot, and teacher and presenter throughout the US and internationally as faculty for the Arcana Company in Chengdu, China

Nancy Antenucci