Embracing Your Sensitivity
Episode 5 season 5: Brooke Neilsen Yang on HSPs
If you often feel that being a highly sensitive person is a handicap, listen to this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman, as host Elizabeth Cush talks with Brooke Neilsen Yang about embracing your sensitivity and coming home to yourself.
“We tend to have abandoned ourselves by the time we’re adults.”
Show Notes:
If you grew up feeling ashamed of your sensitivity, you’re not alone. Chances are that you may have gotten signals from others, and maybe even those closes to you, that you were too sensitive, that you were overreacting, that what you were feeling wasn’t real. Maybe you sensed that you were different, but didn’t recognize that you were a highly sensitive person (HSP)—and that your sensitivity is a great trait. Instead, you may have felt embarrassed and tried to hide who you really were. After a lifetime of hiding, you might even have lost touch with your authentic self. In this episode of the Awaken Your Wise Woman podcast, host Elizabeth Cush, LCPC, a licensed professional therapist, founder of Progression Counseling in Annapolis, Md., and a mid-life women’s life coach, welcomes Brooke Neilsen Yang, a therapist and coach draws on her own healing journey to help others get past the invalidation and misunderstanding they may have experienced, to overcome the shame and to build trust in their sensitive selves.
Listen and Learn:
Why having your experiences validated (or not) makes such a difference
How the HSP label can provide a lens that might shed light on what makes you tick
Why it’s important to recognize and manage sensory overload—and how to do it
How being highly sensitive can be a parenting superpower
Tips for self-care and managing overstimulating environments
How sensitivity is like eye color or a violin—and how recognizing that can give you confidence
The benefits of forging deep connections with other HSPs
The stages of the highly sensitive person’s journey of self-discovery
How to participate in a free workshop on coming home to yourself
Learn More:
Brooke Neilsen Yang’s Intuitive Warrior coaching website
Brooke Neilsen Yang’s Therapeutic Center for HSPs website
Register for Coming Home to Yourself: Recalibration for Sensitives workshop
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April Snow on Highly Sensitive People
Resources mentioned in this episode
Finely Tuned: How to Thrive as a Highly Sensitive Person or Empath by Barrie Davenport
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