diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index 0eea20c..dda61df 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import path from 'path';
 import {readFile} from 'fs/promises';
 import {pathToFileURL} from 'url';
 import camelcase from 'camelcase';
-import {findUp} from 'find-up';
+import {up as findUp, any as findAnyUp} from 'empathic/find';
 import resolveFrom from 'resolve-from';
 import getPackageType from 'get-package-type';
 
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ function camelcasedConfig(config) {
 
 async function findPackage(options) {
 	const cwd = options.cwd || process.env.NYC_CWD || process.cwd();
-	const pkgPath = await findUp('package.json', {cwd});
+	const pkgPath = findUp('package.json', {cwd});
 	if (pkgPath) {
 		const pkgConfig = JSON.parse(await readFile(pkgPath, 'utf8')).nyc || {};
 		if ('cwd' in pkgConfig) {
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ async function applyExtends(config, filename, loopCheck = new Set()) {
 export async function loadNycConfig(options = {}) {
 	const {cwd, pkgConfig} = await findPackage(options);
 	const configFiles = [].concat(options.nycrcPath || standardConfigFiles);
-	const configFile = await findUp(configFiles, {cwd});
+	const configFile = findAnyUp(configFiles, {cwd});
 	if (options.nycrcPath && !configFile) {
 		throw new Error(`Requested configuration file ${options.nycrcPath} not found`);
 	}
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 8ee2d70..b441efa 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 	"homepage": "https://github.com/istanbuljs/load-nyc-config#readme",
 	"dependencies": {
 		"camelcase": "^9.0.0",
-		"find-up": "^8.0.0",
+		"empathic": "^2.0.0",
 		"get-package-type": "^0.1.0",
 		"resolve-from": "^5.0.0",
 		"yaml": "^2.8.3"