"Life of an Empath: A Journey of Depression to Spiritual Awakening" takes us on a journey of what it's like to grow from the darkness of depression and suicidal thoughts into a spiritual awakening. Joseph Sheppard uses funny stories to keep a light hearted approach to a heavy subject matter. The purpose of this book is to help people battling a variety of mental illness and to those that feel lost as well. Self discoveries and lessons learned throughout his life, Joseph Sheppard has learned to overcome his challenges and difficulties through self reflection and understanding his empathic abilities.Being born with a speech impediment, he suffered from bullying and became severely depressed and suicidal.