Empaths Are Not Rare. They’re Often Trauma Survivors.

There is something seductive about the word empath.

It sounds spiritual. Rare. Almost sacred.

It feels better to say, “I’m an empath,” than to say, “I learned to read people because I had to.”

But here is the uncomfortable truth most spiritual spaces avoid:

Many people who identify as empaths are not spiritually gifted.

They are trauma-adapted.

And that does …