I've had a huge path of discovery of myself these past two years. I'm 42 and only learned that Empath is a real thing, and that I am one, just a year ago. I have recently escaped an abusive marriage with a narcissist, and am learning more about what it means to be an Empath.

Thanks to my poor social skills and the isolation of a 15 year abusive marriage, I had never met anyone like me until about a year and a half ago. She is an Empath too, and convinced me it was real. I would have called it hippy mumbo jumbo just a two years ago. But it explains so much about who I am and why I am the way I am.

That bring said, I'm also ADHD.

Everyone here says that meditation is an important part of emotional management. But.... I've never been able to meditate. I just can't shut my brain off. The idea of making you mind go blank is completely alien to me. It's simply something I've never been able to do.

Does anyone have advice for tools to manage your emotions when you can't blank your mind to meditate?