Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Kristy Robinett, author of several books, including It's a Wonderful Afterlife, Born Under a Good Sign, and the new Embrace Your Empathy.
What is Empathy?
Empathy: Noun: The ability to understand and share the feelings of another
What is an Empath?
Empath: Noun: Empath originates in science-fiction literature. Much like emotional telepathy, the term is first cited in Scottish author J.T. McIntosh's 1956 "The Empath," a story about paranormally empathetic beings, called empaths.
The original Star Trek TV series helped spread the word with its 1968 "The Empath," an episode about a deaf woman with the ability to both experience and