In this episode, we talk about… Traditional leadership vs Sensitive leadership Areas HSPs are needed Challenges and solutions to HSPs in leadership From the Sensitive Empowerment Community here were qualities that HSPs named about Traditional Leadership vs Sensitive Leadership… Traditional Leadership Alpha Dominant Patriarchal Intimidating Unhealthy Instills shame Often makes people feel smaller People do things out of fear or shame Loudest ones valued Quiet ones lost Sensitive Leadership Kind-hearted and supportive Empathetic, Compassionate Helps you learn from mistakes without judgment Puts together great teams, knows the gifts in others, and how to bring out their best They empower and guide, and instill a desire to want to do better Believes in the greater mission, can often see the whole picture and bring out passions in others Good listener Efficient Instills confidence Human-centered, heart-centered helps to nurture and build, rather than just profit More open-minded and accepting The glue that holds others together Increased awareness and perspective Choose directions for the greater good, rather than doing things the way they always have done Challenges to become a leader as expressed by HSPs we spoke with… Fear of imbalance in time and energy Pressure High expectations Too much responsibility Solutions Lead in areas you are passionate about Paradigm shift: do it your way! Maintain boundaries Protect your energy & Grounding work Fierce self-care the HSP way Mindset shifts Create structure that works for an HSP Work smarter and more efficiently (HSPs good at that) Increase collaboration Can’t do it all because you care the most, need a talented team for support Stand shoulder to shoulder with others relaying our ideas The best leaders aren’t perfect, they’re those who care about, support and mentor, and guide. Join continued discussions and feel supported in the Sensitive Empowerment Community!  Explore more episodes at HSPpodcast.com

As an HSP we have a series of natural abilities. Abilities that we sometimes overlook and assume that everyone has. Heightened levels of intuition, creativity, and empathy can be incredibly useful for a range of purposes. These gifts can help us to guide others, to facilitate situations and also give us important information. Sometimes we can take for granted the advantages these can give us and even gloss over how powerful they can be. In fact it is these abilities that makes us stand out, especially in terms of our own self recognition. Join us this week as we explore the intelligence these skills give us and how we can best use them for our own development and in order to be of the best service we can be for others. See all our episodes at HSPpodcast.com 

Dr. Judith Orloff shares:  "As a psychiatrist and an empath, I am fascinated by how the phenomenon of empathy works. I feel passionately that empathy is the medicine the world needs right now. Empathy will be the deciding factor between war and peace, between hatred and tolerance. We need to grow larger than our smaller selves and egos to be empathic in our lives. Empathy is the game-changer. It is the trait that will ultimately save the world. I feel passionately that empathy is the medicine the world needs right now. Empathy will be the deciding factor between war and peace, between hatred and tolerance. Empathy is the game changer. It is the trait that will ultimately save the world. There is a powerful connection between your emotions, intuition, and empathy. The magic comes when you learn how to tap into each of them to fully access your sensitivities without going on overload or becoming drained.  In this talk Dr. Orloff answers these questions: As a conventionally trained physician, you are also an empath. What is an empath and what are the neuroscience findings explaining the empath experience? What is the difference between an HSP and an Empath? What are the different types of empaths and the gifts? How can empaths stop absorbing the emotions and physical symptoms of others and develop self-protection techniques so we can enjoy the gifts of sensitivity? Why are empaths misdiagnosed with sensory processing disorder, major depression, and panic attacks? What is the correct diagnosis? What is your greatest vision for the role of empaths in this world, in your lifetime and beyond and how can we as a collective support and continue your important voice in this field? Judith Orloff, MD is the New York Times best-selling author of The Empath’s Survival Guide: Life Strategies for Sensitive People. Her latest book Thriving as an Empath offers daily self-care tools for sensitive people along with its companion The Empath’s Empowerment Journal. Dr. Orloff is a psychiatrist, an empath, and is on the UCLA Psychiatric Clinical Faculty. She synthesizes the pearls of traditional medicine with cutting edge knowledge of intuition, energy, and spirituality. Dr. Orloff also specializes in treating highly sensitive, empathic people in her private practice. Dr. Orloff’s work has been featured on The Today Show, CNN, Oprah Magazine, the New York Times. Dr. Orloff has spoken at Google-LA and has a popular TEDX talk. Her other books are Emotional Freedom and Guide to Intuitive Healing. Explore more information about her "Awakening Your Intuitive Healing Power" 7-module online course and speaking schedule on www.drjudithorloff.com. -- Julie Bjelland is a Psychotherapist specializing in high sensitivity, host of The HSP Podcast, and Founder of the Sensitive Empowerment Community, whose mission is to create a paradigm shift where sensitivity is embraced, valued, and honored. Julie offers multiple essential resources for educating, inspiring, and empowering HSPs. Register for her free Masterclasses, take the Sensitivity Quiz and profoundly transform your life in her courses and community. Her HSPs in Business Group is designed to support and empower sensitive people to grow heart-centered businesses, share their voices, and be part of the change the world needs. JulieBjelland.com❤️🌈❤️ (she/her) Explore all the episodes of The HSP Podcast at HSPpodcast.com

Sensitive people feel things deeply and often experience a hurting heart. Whether someone said something that hurt us, or we are around others being hurt or we feel the pain of injustice let this meditation guide you toward healing your beautiful heart. You might like to save this meditation for easy access and quick support during a time when your heart might be hurting. ❤️

Join us for a generative discussion on how we can leverage the power of music in our everyday lives to help us feel, heal, and thrive. This special session will include an immersive sound bath meditation to experience the power of sound healing in practice. As highly sensitive people, we feel the world more acutely than others. And yet, we live in a culture that fears emotion. Often, we deny, repress, and hide our emotions, feeling like there is something wrong with us when we experience anger, anxiety, frustration, insecurity, overwhelm, and more. Left unexpressed, our emotions can accumulate into dis-ease, physically, psychologically, emotionally, and spiritually. But the truth is, we must feel in order to heal. Music is a powerfully under-utilized resource to help us regulate and process our emotions so that we can increase our resilience for uncomfortable feelings and life stressors, release pent up and painful emotional energy, and ultimately calm our nervous systems to regain internal balance. Join us to experience it for yourself! We want all HSP's to know that this powerful resource of music and sound healing can be used regularly to help them cultivate emotional resilience and nervous system regulation in their lives. AND that it can help us to tap more deeply into our superpowers for empathy, intuition, and creativity so that we can share our gifts more fully with the world. Ada Ketchie and Nathan Getzin are alchemists of the human heart, helping people cultivate greater mindfulness, healing, and self-actualization through the ineffable power of music. As co-founders of Wakes they use their expertise as musicians, storytellers, yoga teachers, healers, and coaches to create experiences that offer radical transformation of mind, body and spirit. Their mission is to help people heal what hurts, grow thriving relationships, and awaken to true and lasting presence, purpose, and resilience. They do this by creating immersive sound healing experiences, meditations, intimate concerts, retreats, individual and group coaching, and providing online resources and support. https://wakes.life ---- Julie Bjelland is a Psychotherapist specializing in high sensitivity, host of The HSP Podcast, and Founder of the Sensitive Empowerment Community, whose mission is to create a paradigm shift where sensitivity is embraced, valued, and honored. Julie offers multiple essential resources for educating, inspiring, and empowering HSPs. Register for her free Masterclasses, take the Sensitivity Quiz and profoundly transform your life in her courses and community. Her HSPs in Business Group is designed to support and empower sensitive people to grow heart-centered businesses, share their voices, and be part of the change the world needs. JulieBjelland.com❤️🌈❤️ (she/her)

Lena Laki Lena Laki is a German-born indie-folk singer/songwriter based in Athens. Her Debut EP "Take Me With" has received radio play on radio stations such as BBC Radio, and acclaim from international media. Gigslutz (UK) made her the 'Discovery of the Week', hailing Lena as “One of those ultimately talented musicians it is essential to appreciate“, while Love is Pop (US) declared Lena’s material as "Magical music... nothing short of gorgeous." Her music can be described as dark and dreamy indie folk with a hint of jazz. Influences range from Leonard Cohen and Nick Drake to Radiohead and Goldfrapp. "Dream folk with a hint of gold to soothe your soul." (Phoenix Session, UK) www.lenalaki.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xALXx45iCzg https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc_2Bcdal_dXB8X0lX7F34Q Ami Indigo As a multi-passionate mama, musician, artist, and pattern-shifter I like to use my creativity in a variety of ways to inspire healing and the Inner Journey. I know I look human but let’s be totally honest…I’m actually made of wildflowers, courage, teardrops, and starlight. I’m HSP intuitive and tend to have a little extra Vata energy swirling around. My nervous system demands I go at a gentle pace and sometimes I’m annoyed having to ground my airy-faerie butt. As a narcissism abuse survivor I’ve had to do a lot of healing around people-pleasing and co-dependence. I used to believe there wasn’t anything “more sparkles” couldn’t solve until one loss after another knocked the sparkles out of me and pushed me down a dark corridor. I lost my boobs, my ovaries, my health, my mom and my dog all in very short succession. The gift in that gritty loss journey was a realization that I am valuable and worthy “As Is”…no sparkles needed. My creations are for people wanting to dwell more deeply with their divine sunshine rays and infuse self-love into their lives. I hope you find something here that helps you feel refreshed and inspires the inner journey. Links to Ami Indigo's music can be found by clicking on these links below or on your preferred streaming platform. iTunes link: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/ami-indigo/1552578073?itsct=music_box&itscg=30200&ct=artists_ami_indigo&ls=1&app=music Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3AMs1yhAP5tnZAn1bzYRM9 Ada Ketchie and Nathan Getzin from Wakes Life Ada Ketchie and Nathan Getzin are alchemists of the human heart, helping people cultivate greater mindfulness, healing, and self-actualization through the ineffable power of music. As co-founders of Wakes they use their expertise as musicians, storytellers, yoga teachers, healers, and coaches to create experiences that offer radical transformation of mind, body and spirit. Their mission is to help people heal what hurts, grow thriving relationships, and awaken to true and lasting presence, purpose, and resilience. They do this by creating immersive sound healing experiences, meditations, intimate concerts, retreats, individual and group coaching, and providing online resources and support. Stay in touch with Ada & Nathan and receive a Free Morning Musical Mediation at their website: https://wakes.life --- Join us in the Sensitive Empowerment Community www.JulieBjelland.com

Have you ever wondered how what you eat can impact brain structure and function? Are you curious to know what, if any role diet plays in mood? Research shows that factors such as our blood sugar levels, nutrient deficiencies, and gut microbiome imbalances can all play pivotal roles in our experience of mental health. Join us to learn about the nutrients that are essential to keeping the brain and the nervous system happy, as well as how to balance neurotransmitters. You'll also learn how to stabilize blood sugar levels to prevent symptoms of anxiety and low mood, as well as covering the fascinating link between the gut and the brain and what to eat to optimize digestion. About Anastasia: Anastasia is the founder of Whole Mind Health and is a Registered Nutritionist that specializes in nutrition and its role in mental health and neuroscience. She is passionate about empowering people with the tools to take their mental health into their own hands and has been working for the past 5 years with clients suffering from a wide range of psychiatric conditions, such as depression, generalized anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder. Anastasia believes that HSP and those suffering from anxiety and depression are often the 'canaries in the coal mine', being the first to highlight the mismatch between our biology and our toxic modern environment through symptoms of poor mental health. Anastasia has found that using personalized dietary and lifestyle approaches can be life-changing by helping individuals recalibrate and come back to their center. www.wholemindhealth.co.uk For more information about the podcast and to join the Sensitive Empowerment Community visit www.JulieBjelland.com

As Highly Sensitive People it’s easy to believe we’re bad, broken, or otherwise ill-equipped for this noisy, busy, and messy world. We often feel not quite enough. But as we deepen our roots of self-awareness and self-compassion and learn to take imperfect action toward building a life and world we want to live in, our inner critic grows quieter, we become rooted and resilient, and we realize that as HSP’s we are gifted, needed, and very much on-purpose. Krista O'Reilly-Davi-Digui lives in central Alberta and works as a Joyful Living Educator and writer. As a stubborn questioner, hopeful reformer, and a highly sensitive human in a messy world, her motto is: You're imperfect. Life is messy. Show up anyway. Her mission is to help you figure out how. https://www.alifeinprogress.ca/ ----- Explore more episodes, resources for the sensitive, and join our Sensitive Empowerment Community at www.JulieBjelland.com

Your body gives you intake within your intuition every day. It gives you extra important information,  helps with making decisions, knowing what’s right for you, if you can trust someone, and gives you cues about what you need for your health and well-being. What body cues do you observe when something isn't quite right? What does your intuition feel like when something is right for you? In what ways does your intuition help you? Intuitive healing energy can be powerful in HSPs. Believe in healing and stay open to receiving it. We have an extra level of conscious awareness and stronger intuition, giving us additional information and a deeper understanding. 4 main types of intuition Clairsentience: most common, involves feelings: physical feelings, emotional feelings, or energetic feelings. intuitive hits, pick up on other people's energies and emotions, feeling other people's energies and emotions as if they were their own. Claircognizance: thoughts that seem to just drop into your head. Suddenly, you just know, like an intuition "download" Clairaudience: sounds like someone talking in your mind, calm and clear. Clairvoyance: It can look like a flash of a mental image or scene and is often symbolic or metaphorical. How to strengthen and tap into your intuition Quiet the mind, focus on the breath, and listen to and scan your body every day. Balance the sensitive nervous system, giving yourself daily alone time, time in nature, meditation, mindfulness, and slowing down Protect your energy and separate your energy from others (Grounding/Shielding) Practice boundaries around anyone that lowers your vibration. Consciously spend time in positive spaces with higher vibrational energy. Be around others who support your gifts Tune into the body. Are you sending loving energy to your body? Are you talking to your body with self-love? Are you taking care of your physical body with love? Are you moving your body in healthy ways? These are all conscious ways to open even more to our intuition. Listen to your body If your body is tired, rest. If your body needs something, pay attention, and prioritize that need. We don't help the world by taking on its pain. Separate, ground, and protect your energy. Develop tools for what you need. Be compassionate and loving with yourself. Send positive energy into your body every day. Trust and value your intuition. Explore all our episodes, comment on episodes, leave us messages, and share episodes at www.HSPpodcast.com

Gently detoxify the body and mind with ancient tools of Ayurveda.  Our body is like a magnificent machine that benefits much like a car does when it gets an oil change and a tune-up.  Feel more energy, improve your digestion, and feel cellular bliss! Ancient Ayurveda detoxification therapies for HSP's is gentle and doable. Rose shares: HSP's can really benefit from a seasonal cleanse, and that it does not have to be a harsh cleanse, that the effectiveness of the cleanse does not have to difficult, it can be blissful and gentle to get the desired results. Rose Carol has been Ayurveda Health Practitioner specializing in the detoxification therapies known as pancha karma since 1989.  She is also an LPC and integrates Ayurveda in her counseling as a way to create emotional bliss and balance.  www.ayurvedahealthcoach.com We invite you to join us for further discussions on this event in our Sensitive Empowerment Community.