What is Empathy?
Empathy shines the light of compassion on those seemingly scary places and allows the feelings longing to be heard amidst the pain and fears to have a voice.
Empathy connects the mental thoughts and stories with the feelings and where they live in the body. Empathy supports awareness of the body and helps us feel how the thoughts impact our body.
Compassionate listening helps the yearnings and longings of the heart surface.
EMPATHY IS THE DOORWAY TO OUR INNOCENCE, our inner beauty, our truth and our vulnerable tenderness, – to what we really want and need.
In the process of empathy, the client’s negative thoughts and expressions are translated into a language of the heart. As the client feels heard and understood, they deepen into compassion for themselves.
Like divers, together we find the gems and pearls hidden within the stormy, murky waters.
Through empathy and compassion, minds and feelings move from contraction into curiosity- from tension into expansion-from despair into new possibilities.