title: The Mature Empath: Stages of Developing Your Psychic and Empathic Gifts
author: Tracy Roe
description: Tracy Roe, MA, LCPC, is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, Usui Reiki Master, and inter-spiritual minister through Alliance of Divine Love.
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  # Chapter 1
  
  
  
  
  
  When a person has spent her entire life in the same small town, she starts to
  think she knows everything there is to know about it. That she has seen and
  heard and done it all, and no matter what happens, it is nothing that hasn’t
  been seen or heard or done before.
  
  
  
  
  
  I believed that about my Indiana hometown. I did … right up until the day I
  met my witchy boss, Felicity Dow, and began to discover the truth about Stony
  Mill’s not-so-hidden dark side. Along the way, I also unearthed a few truths
  about myself.
  
  
  
  
  
  My name is Maggie—Margaret Mary-Catherine O’Neill, actually, but I’m not a
  formal kind of girl—and one of my personal truths recently discovered is that
  I am an empath. A bona fide, natural-born intuitive capable of sensing
  emotion, both past and present, in the air around