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Confessions of a hyper-empath

13 mins | May 8, 2022
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It’s overwhelming being one, but you can also harness it for good. You might be familiar with the feeling of empathising with someone else's emotions, whereby you are at least able to recognise some moods in other people. But there is even a deeper layer to that, where the "sensation of taking on someone else’s experience is unmistakable." Joanna Cannon discovers more about this 'hyper' state from hyper-empaths themselves.

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