Remedy Buzzwords: Empathy
by Taylor Cockrum, MT-BC
What’s Empathy?
Empathy is:
- The motion of understanding, being conscious of, being delicate to, AND vicariously experiencing the sentiments, ideas, and experiences of one other individual.
- The flexibility to share another person’s emotions or experiences by imagining what it could be wish to be in that individual’s state of affairs
Empathy vs Sympathy
- Whereas sympathy entails acknowledging one other’s emotional or bodily battle and displaying concern, pity, or help for them, empathy goes a step additional. i.e. “I’m sorry you’re in ache.”
- Empathy entails understanding an individual’s state of affairs by placing your self into their footwear, usually feeling feelings *with* the opposite individual. i.e. “I understand how you are feeling” or “I really feel your ache.”
Execs and Cons of Empathy
Execs:
- Permits deeper connections
- Attune to others’ feelings or experiences
- Builds belief (all forms of relationships)
Cons:
- Greater publicity to distressing data/experiences
- Secondary trauma
- Feeling overwhelmed or burned out (see compassion fatigue)
“Empathy is probably the most mysterious transition that the human soul can have, and it’s accessible to all of us, however we have now to present ourselves the chance to establish, to plunge ourselves in a narrative the place we see the world from the underside up or by way of one other’s eyes or coronary heart.”
– Sue Monk Kidd
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