Coming Out as an Empath

The same sensitivity and awareness that causes increased pain, also empowers empaths to know deeper and richer levels of solitude, sabi, and mono no aware. They see all kinds of beauty and they tend to see it everywhere. They feel deep connections in natu

For a long time I didn't have a positive image of empaths. I blame Gem.

Gem was a reluctant hero on an episodes of the original Star Trek series. At the age of 13 I watched in a state of wrapped attention as superior elder aliens tested her to see if she could develop her empathic healing abilities.

Gem

My abiding feeling towards Gem for many years was a …