Empaths, Empathy, and Emotional Labor

Have you been labeled oversensitive? Are you drained by crowds? Do you startle easily? Then you might be an empath! In this week’s episode, the hosts continue their conversation about emotional labor by looking more closely at how being an empath might impact that labor and increase the exhaustion caused by it. They relate it to the broader notion of empathy and its relationship to social justice. The hosts end the discussion by responding to twenty empath questionnaire questions and considering the usefulness of the concept. For anyone interested, the questionnaire can be found here:

https://drjudithorloff.com/quizzes/empath-self-assessment-test/

The episode also references the following article:

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/six_habits_of_highly_empathic_people1

 

The opening and closing song, "Vienna Beat"  by  Blue Dot Sessions  is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial License and shared through the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blue_Dot_Sessions/RadioPink/Vienna_Beat