The Art of Empathy, Part 1
Sounds True: Insights at the Edge
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The Importance of Emotional Regulation for the Autistic Spectrum
For people with heavy emotion contagion skills, emotions can feel like a battering wave after battering wave. This is what I see in my friends on the autism spectrum who are thought of as unempathic. And so that was a huge piece for me in understanding the necessity of emotion regulation for everybody, but especially for hyper empaths. So learning the language of emotions, learning to turn toward the emotions and work with them as a part of your cognition, rather than things that happen to you.
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