Dr Judith Orloff is a psychiatrist on the UCLA Psychiatric Clinical Faculty, a New York Times bestselling author of The Empath’s Survival Guide: Life Strategies for Sensitive People and has been called ‘the godmother of the empath movement’.
Empath? A term that has become popular in recent years to describe ‘highly sensitive people’ who have a higher than normal degree of empathy, the theory being that some children are born…