Understanding Life as an Empath: My Journey and How to Thrive Discovering my life as an empath. As a young child, I always felt different, out of place, and as though I didn’t truly belong anywhere. I didn’t understand why I felt so deeply or why every emotion seemed to cut me like a dagger straight to my soul. My mind was a constant whirlwind of chatter, and I worried about everything—every single little thing I could possibly worry about. That relentless storm of thoughts and emotions never seemed to end. For years, I carried the weight of feeling like…