Highly sensitive individuals often face misconceptions about their emotional depth. The podcast dives into what defines sensitivity, exploring genetic and environmental influences. Listeners learn how sensitivity links to empathy, creativity, and neurodivergence. Practical tips are shared on how to navigate relationships while embracing sensitivity as a strength. The importance of creating supportive environments for sensitive souls is emphasized, along with an invitation to shift the narrative around emotional awareness. It’s a heartfelt discussion on leveraging sensitivity as a superpower!
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High Sensitivity Is More Than It Seems
Being highly sensitive is more than just crying or overreacting.
It involves experiencing the world with heightened intensity, both joy and pain.
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Two Types of Sensitivity
There are two types of sensitivity: reactive/environmental and internal/personality.
Highly Sensitive Persons (HSPs) possess long-standing, trait-based sensitivity, a term coined by Elaine Aron.
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Assess Your Sensitivity
Take the Highly Sensitive Person Scale to assess your sensitivity.
This questionnaire, developed by Elaine Aron, helps identify HSP traits.
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In this book, Dr. Elaine Aron provides insights and practical advice for individuals who identify as highly sensitive persons (HSPs). The book includes self-assessment tests to help readers identify their particular sensitivities, ways to reframe past experiences positively, and tips on managing over-arousal. It also explores how high sensitivity affects work and personal relationships and offers techniques to enrich the soul and spirit. Aron emphasizes the importance of recognizing and valuing sensitivity as a trait that carries both strengths and weaknesses, and she provides strategies for HSPs to cope with the challenges and maximize the benefits of their sensitivity.
The life of the highly sensitive person is often misunderstood. Highly sensitive aren't just people who cry too much or get overwhelmed, take things too personally: they actually take in so much of the world that it can be too much. They feel everything, from joy to sadness, so immediately and profoundly. They are also so in tune with the emotions of all those around them that sometimes it can be too much. Today we break down the psychology of the highly sensitive person, including:
What are the core assessment criteria for identifying if you're highly sensitive?
What causes someone to be highly sensitive?
The genetic, personality, parental and temperment contribution
The link between sensitivity, IQ, EQ and creativity + the gentle superpower of sensitive people
Do highly sensitive people have more empathy?
The link between neurodivergence and sensitivity
How to explain your sensitivity to others
How to make the world work for your gentle, feeling soul, and so much more!
This episode is FULL of tips, research and studies. Listen now!
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