Empathy is the ability to experience or embody the feelings of another person. Empathy goes beyond sympathy, which is defined as caring and understanding for the suffering of others. This is not to say that sympathy is not an important emotion. Often times these words are used similarly and even interchangeably (incorrectly so) but, as you can see, differ subtly in their emotional meaning. Do you have your own definition or way of delineating between empathy and sympathy?

Today the ladies look at Empathy and Sympathy, why its important for your own self care to understand the subtle differences between the two, and some of the many ways to utilize both appropriately. 

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