Very informative book. Full of a lot of useful information. This book will also be very useful for future reference

This a a HOW To guide on Highly sensitive Empath souls , I really enjoyed this book and see myself rereading it because it has useable practical advice from a REAL PRACTICiONAL teacher , this is a book 📖 that dives much more Deep level on living as a Empath more than the bare surface basics, you’ll receive knowledge to practice on and sure helps for Clarity on all areas on Empathy, easy to read recommend

There was a lot of content in this book that really resonated with me, and a lot that really didn't. As such, let me discuss The Everyday Empath on its merits as a type of self-help book, and then in light of my own lens so that it might inform others'.

For those who are empaths (I count myself as one of them), this book will put a name and energy to something you may not have realized is part of your identity. Too, you might even realize that that trait is a core part of your identity. Taking on the emotions of others can be exhausting, so it can be very helpful not only realize these things, but also realize that the trait as not only beneficial but also empowering, to yourself and others.

A good part of the book, in fact, is spent talking about self-care for empaths and helping them to dissect what, to them, is an automatic process. This concept of self-care, especially the way Raven Digitalis talks about it, is something that I have only recently internalized as important to my well-being, and while he is not the first to talk about self-care per se, he's the first to write about it in the context of empathy and as a way to balance out the energies we spend putting ourselves' in other peoples' shoes, at least that I know of. That alone was helpful.

I tend to judge nonfiction books, especially in the "how-to" or "self-help" vein, on the expertise of the author; the number of real-life examples given; the ability of the author to relate to the audience, and the extent to which the advice given is practical or the book feels "workbooky." Raven Digitalis knows what he's talking about (just read his GoodReads bio), and provides a number of real-life examples, although I would've liked to see more, preferably with people in a variety of circumstances. The author does relate to his audience on a regular basis, but I feel like the book would have been stronger if there were more pages in which the readers were asked to what extent they identified with what was in each chapter, if they envisioned being able to put the advice given into their lives and how, etc.

Looking at the contents of Everyday Empath through my own moral lens definitely provided another way to view this book. My lens, for example, doesn't include envisioning instances of anger or aggression as external energies that change in color as I subdue them. This is not to say that I haven't gone through somewhat similar exercises with my therapist, but when mention of "chakras" was made, I realized that things outside my normal realm of knowledge and experience were being introduced. I find value in reading books and other materials by those not of my own belief systems so that I can understand those people better, but when "spells" cast during the waning cycle of the moon were mentioned as a way of transforming negative thinking and its resulting behavioral patterns, I realized I was even farther out of my comfort zone than normal.

For those of you who are familiar with those terms, and who are empaths, this book may be of great value to you then. For me, it took a little longer to read because of my unfamiliarity with them.

I received a copy of this book for a fair and honest review. I was pleased to find out this author was from my home state. I picked this book because I could relate to it. I loved the activities and getting a better and complete understanding of what an empath is and what that means. It helped me focus in on a few things. I used to wonder why I would get so emotional involved in things. Ihave a better understanding and that is helping me look to the future. That is something that I needed.

(3.5 stars) This book was a guide to self care tailored to Empaths on a journey to spiritual enlightenment. I enjoyed the different exercises and guided meditations and have bookmarked some to do at a later time. Overall I don’t think any of the information is new or life changing but it is a concise resource for empaths and the struggles we deal with day to day.

This book on empathy contains the usual information one would expect regarding the empath experience. However, I was pleasantly surprised with the number of practical “experiments” and exercises provided in the book for empaths. I believe empaths young and old will find value in this book.

If you've ever questioned if you are an empath, or what being an empath means than this is the book for you. It starts at the beginning by first helping you discover whether you self identify as an empathy and what your abilities as an empath are. It really helps with empath self care by teaching how to protect oneself from negative energies using shielding techniques, and grounding for when things are a little too much, as well as many other helpful tips, techniques, and exercises. Highly recommended.

This truly is an "everyday" style book with easy to follow techniques to help you understand and enhance your empath abilities. I LOVED the tone and writing style. I felt like it was a conversation and I was receiving advice from a good friend. It was casual and simple to follow without a lot of jargon and technical talk. I particularly enjoyed the step by step instructions on how to complete various tasks. Great book to start learning about your energies as an empath!

When reading The Everyday Empath, I felt the author was talking to myself. Especially on the section describing what sort of qualities, emotions, and other characteristics are normal in empaths. It was like it was describing me to the smallest detail.

The book covers basics about know what an empath is, to how to live and cope with your gift. Protecting yourself and other techniques that are easy to comprehend.

Although I think that the whole book has something important to share, the section that impacted me the most is the teachings on how to protect yourself as an empath from absorbing other's bad energy. This has been a problem of mine for a while. I almost felt as if the negative energy would partially leave the origin and glue to me. Anyways, what I'm trying to say here, is that the teachings have been useful to me.

The exercises featured in The Everyday Empath are for beginners, intermediate, or advanced in knowledge. So this book is sure to help you grow as you practice the teachings.

Is very refreshing to find a section on mindfulness, as this can be beneficial to anyone, empath or not. And the psychological and psychiatrical experts are also very interesting to find in a book that would be considered esoteric or new age. I love to find this blend of science and spirituality in books I read, and I was very pleased to have encountered that aspect in this book as well.

I also admire that the author cares for the readers. In the depression and anxiety section, the suicide hotline is included. Something that might be taboo, but yet the author made sure to include it, and if it helps one person, then I think is worth to have it in the book. You never know who will be reading it, and finding more help in the pages of the book beyond the teachings included.

I have read the author's previous work and found each book of hers very enlightening and educational. I like the quality of her writing which is very straightforward. I was pleased to receive this for review from the publisher and Net Galley. My opinion is my own.
As a Empath Sensitive I appreciated how the author teaches us to live with our gift. It is of utmost importance as a Empath to learn of shields, self care and boundaries. The author teaches this as a matter of importance to the reader and teaches us how to protect ourselves while embracing our gift.
The techniques taught here are very accessible, and give the reader resources we need to survive.
It is important to note that the author teaches us how not to absorb other's energy and emotions and to have the ability to care for our gift, ourselves while being joyful in life . She teaches us that it is possible to manager our gift and bring light to the world. This will alter your life and your view of your life as a empath as it did for me.

I appreciate all the different strategies for self care and will be utilizing the techniques and this book for many years to come. I highly recommend this book for your education in being an Empath Sensitive. Very well done to the author. This book is quite simply life changing.

I absolutely enjoyed this book. I felt it covered all aspects of being an empath. It is very comprehensive. I voluntarily read this book via NetGalley in exchange for my honest opinion.

I've been wondering if I'm an empath for a while so when I saw this on NetGalley, I had to snap it up, what better way to find out if I am? Well, this was the perfect book for me. Not only does it cover the basics, like what is empathy but it goes into ways to protect yourself with shields, how to turn negative feeling into positive ones, even some shadow work. I was very overwhelmed with all the information in this book - in the best way!

I've never read anything else by this author but I plan to change that, because I love the writing style and how much they seem to know about this topic. I will say that some of the exercises in this book that aren't beginner friendly but something to work towards, which is fine by me, I have some things to do now and some for later.

Overall, I just really love this book, I don't have a single bad thing to say about it.

The Everyday Empath, by Raven Digitalis, focuses on the intersection of empathic abilities with daily life. It mostly covers the management of empathy (shielding, grounding, etc).

Self-care for empaths and the emotionally sensitive takes center stage in the book. Mr. Digitalis makes it clear that empathic self-care can have positive repercussions for those around you and the world at large. It delves a bit into using one’s empathic abilities proactively, too.

I read Mr. Digitalis’s first book on empathy, Esoteric Empathy, almost immediately after it was released. I enjoyed the blend of spiritual speculation and practical psychological advice in that one. This one (a companion to the earlier book) covers more basic, less speculative material, and might best be read prior to Esoteric Empathy.
Prior to Mr. Digitalis’s books, my experience with self-identified empaths tended to come from Facebook. And on Facebook? A lot of claims about esoteric empathy are just people projecting or looking for a magical excuse for emotional lability.

That said, empathy, in both the ordinary and esoteric senses, is very much a real facet of human existence. It’s worthy of significant scholarship from an occult perspective considering the influence of emotions on magical praxis.

To be frank, Mr. Digitalis’s work on empathy in an esoteric context is a breath of fresh air. You will not find much in the way of self-pity or aggrandizement here - Mr. Digitalis is unfailingly down-to-earth, while also willing to draw sharp lines around what he does, and does not, see as productive for empaths. I found his work incredibly genuine, useful, and sensible.

I consider myself to have slightly higher than normal empathic abilities when it comes to other people, but full-blown paranormal empathy in terms of animals. That sounds weird, but it’s not all that uncommon for empaths to have a “specialty” like that. For me, it seems to be part of my therianthropy, but it is not hard to see that many empaths, therian or not, do have a sort of focus or specialty.

Mr. Digitalis doesn’t talk terribly much about such specialties, though - the book is suitable for most empaths, especially those just beginning to understand the phenomenon.

The section in this book on different types of shields is absolutely golden, and very creative. It’ll be helpful for any empath, and also anyone interested in energy work. There’s a discussion of elemental shields and also using crystal imagery when shielding. I found the latter extremely helpful for me personally, and the former is pretty cool, too.

The chapter on rhythms and cycles was particularly pertinent to me, and I was glad that Mr. Digitalis acknowledges such things vary. So many spiritual books assume the reader keeps to a “normal” sleep schedule, but not so here! Mr. Digitalis himself admits to being a night owl, and admits that we’re all different.

There’s some talk of astrological cycles, too - frankly, I think more could be written about this, and it wasn’t covered in nearly enough depth in the book. I thought the inclusion of basic astrological data (what Mercury, Venus, etc signify) was a bit superfluous. I mean, as I said, much more could be written about it, and it seemed a bit silly to just cover such a small amount of information. If you’re already well-versed in astrology, you can skip this part, either way.

Many of the exercises in mindfulness that Mr. Digitalis describes would not be out of place in a cognitive or dialectical behavioral therapy regimen. Its appropriate and heartening, then, that he delivers a nice, woo-free perspective on mental health and empathy. He admits that things like talk therapy and medication can be useful, even to the most gifted of empaths.

Even more refreshingly, he also clarifies that such things can help develop empathic gifts, honing them rather than shutting them down. In the current climate, with so much misinformation about psychology and psychiatry in the esoteric community, this is quite heartening to read.

I give this book four out of five stars. It is a good primer for beginners and a stepping-stone to more advanced understanding. The book’s main flaw is that it tries to cover far too much information in a short span. Nevertheless, it’s a good read and a welcome addition to any witch’s bookshelf, with creative exercises, vivid visualization ideas, and thought-provoking commentary.

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Great book about how to work with our emotions and feelings. There are many encouring words in text for a new hope when things are looking "oh not so well" so that we can say for ex. "no woman, no cry". Emotion is very important in our lives even though sometimes it seems that isn't so, for ex. in music, composers who were not enough involved in feelings when composing may not expect great success with their music in a long run. And this is book exactly about that in all spheres of our life, how to guide your life in more emotional way. Sometimes text seems little incomplete with techniques and makes us to ask "why?" but in general this is an interesting book. Thanks Llewellyn!

'The Everday Empath' by Raven Digitalis is a manual for those who identify as empaths or for those who suspect they might be empaths. This books covers all the bases from defining what an empath is, to coping strategies, to outlining the benefits of being an empath, and everything in between. The main message throughout was that the key to surviving in today’s world as an empath begins with living a balanced life by cultivating self-care.

What I particularly liked about this book was that it teaches you how to become more self-aware, so it’s not about hating your empathic abilities or placing the blame on other people for the way you feel. In this sense, this was a self-empowering book that made me feel proud and confident being an empath. There were many exercises outlined in the book to help cope with the emotional tsunami’s of being an empath. I thought some of them were stronger than others because some seemed very ritualistic and complicated such as doing a lot of visual work while trying to stay present in interactions. A standout technique were the protective shields. This is an innovative technique that makes energy protection creative and fun. I also thought the cord cutting exercise was unique and more hands on compared to other cord cutting techniques.

Overall this book is a must read for those who are struggling with being an empath because you will finish this book feeling less burdened and overwhelmed by your gifts and you will come to understand that emotional equilibrium is in fact achievable.

I absolutely adored this book. The writing was impeccable; both incredibly informative and down-to-earth, making the book easy to read and totally relatable. It was literally everything that I was needing in this moment; I'm fairly certain I highlighted and bookmarked every other page. I am so thankful to the author for putting this book out there. A new favorite on my bookshelf, a definite recommend, and one that I will reach for again and again.

I was really swept off my feet reading The Everyday Empath. I connected on a very personal level to much of the information. I found the exercises to be extremely helpful, and I think other sensitive people will, too. I definitely recommend if you believe yourself to be an empath, or know people who may be. It helps explain so much and give ways of dealing. Interesting read!

Book: “The Everyday Empath: Achieve Energetic Balance in Your Life” by Raven Digitalis, Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd., 2019.

Book Review by Mary Mikawoz

The book is available March 8, 2019

Raven Digitalis has been an empath all his life. He has focussed on Wiccan and pagan pursuits and is also a farmer. He now explores empathy for those who are newly grounded in it or for those would like to understand highly attuned empaths in their lives. Empathy is an emotional internalization. It is a word that is less than a 100 years old and comes from the German word to “feeling into” where you feel somebody else's emotion as your own. “Empathy is considerate, compassionate and engaging.”

Unlike sympathy which is a feeling “for” somebody, empathy is a feeling “as” somebody. The empath is “absorbing” the emotional frequency. Everyone is empathic to one degree or another. It all depends on how much you have developed it. Many spiritual people indicate that the emotional response of empathy affects our karma.

Our empathic techniques include the following points: we don't need to have all the answers, it's good to be honest, disapproval is ok sometimes, you are not a victim, put yourself first, and cultivate gratitude.

Psychics have an enhanced ability to perceive energies and are more focussed as empaths. For those with highly-developed empathy, we have the benefit of transforming or transmuting the energies by increasing the vibrations. Emotional absorption can take place while on the phone, watching TV, and reading the newspaper, in that these are examples of everyday life energy and it is everywhere. If you feel something negative, transmute its energy field to something positive. If you feel something positive, amplify that to the energy grid.

Although the empath is more compassionate, he/she may be scared and see something they don't want. Some sensitives turn to alcohol, drug abuse, addictions, video gaming and other methods of emotional disconnection. It is really a good thing to be an empath as we are helping to bring in a new aeon of ages into being. If we isolate ourselves for long periods of time, we are bringing in external negative energy without the ability to project our positive energy.

Some methods for dealing with empathy are to: look at the third eye instead of the eyes, covering up your crown chakra with a a hat or shawl, “fake it till you make it,” carry a rock or gemstone, watch your breathing, and surround yourself with like-minded empaths.

Having said all this, it is important for the empath to have boundaries and reinforce this with visualizing a shield of protection. The Mother Earth and Father Sky shield is a good grounding one. You can try a crystalline shield, an egg shield, a mirror shield, shield of iron, a cloak of invisibility, coat of arms, patterned shield, an empath's heart shield, shield of prayer, or elemental shield.

Empaths are prone to anxiety, depression and emotional imbalances. There are ways to deal with these problems or issues. An empaths purpose is to inspire unity, growth and healing. Empaths are natural healers and that is what we are supposed to do. That is one reason we should be continuing in our community doing the work of transmuting empathic energy and vibrations.

There are a number of exercises in the book. The first one is to observe people and figure out what is going on. It there a dominant personality and a submissive one? Is it a mother and child trying to work out a conflict? What is the feeling between the couple or the group? A second exercise involves you meeting and talking to your Shadow Self. A third exercise is regarding absorptive and projective empathy. A fourth exercise is self-limitation cord cutting. A fifth exercise is morning and evening rituals for empaths. A sixth exercise is a bathing cleansing. A seventh exercise is an empathic journey into art. An eighth exercise is to think globally and act locally. A ninth and final exercise is for action for animals.

Remember “We are not mere emotional sponges. We are emotional alchemists!”

As a fellow empath, I found the book a good review with some very good insights and also some good suggestions for exercises. I would recommend this book to anyone who feels they are developing feelings of empathy towards others or are into metaphysical subjects. I found the book valuable for myself and found it a good read.

The book is available March 8, 2019 when it will be released to the public.



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I have read the author's previous book Esoteric Empathy, and while it was quite helpful to me as am empath, it was also a bit over my head at times. This new one was more accessible, and again provided me with a ton of resources and techniques to keep in my empath tool box.

Raven writes with a friendly tone, and explains complicated concept in a straightforward manner. He provides citations and resources in places where the reader may need or want to seek further information.

What I appreciate most about Raven's writing for empaths is that he is not instructing us on how to merely survive bring an empath, but to see it as the gift it truly is. He reminds us that we are not simply sponges for others' emotions and energy, and that we have a responsibility to spread our joyful light and possess the ability to transform others' energy within us and release it into the world at a higher frequency. This was all mind blowing stuff to me at first. To say it has changed my life is an understatement. I no longer see being an empath as a burden at any time, which I used to occasionally. Now I feel as if I have a super power and am continually striving to learn more and practice different strategies for self care, keeping in mind my sensitive without any shame or guilt.