Finding Your Voice—replay
Episode 26: Highly Sensitive Women with April Snow
If you’re a highly sensitive person (HSP), chances are you have trouble finding your voice—and that can cause a lot of anxiety. In this episode of AYWW, host Elizabeth Cush welcomes back psychotherapist April Snow, who talks about how you can learn to trust your voice, set healthy boundaries and speak up for your needs.
“We start to doubt ourselves. We start to silence that inner wisdom, that intuition.”
Show Notes:
You pick up on things in your environment—things others don’t notice. You feel much more deeply than others do. When others can’t or won’t validate your perceptions and emotions, you begin to stop trusting yourself. That’s the plight of the highly sensitive person (HSP). In this episode, host Elizabeth Cush, life coach and therapist, and her guest April Snow, a San Francisco-based psychotherapist and highly sensitive person, delve deeper into what it means to be an HSP and an introvert, how being an HSP might make it more difficult to know and trust your voice, and how you can find your voice and start to learn to advocate for your needs in order to ease you anxiety.
Listen and learn:
The core characteristics of a highly sensitive person
Why being highly sensitive might lead you to doubt yourself and silence your voice
What it means to be an HSP and an introvert—and why it can feel exhausting and overwhelming
Why so many highly sensitive women experience anxiety
Why it’s important to set limits on how much you take on—and why it can be hard to do so
How empathy and guilt are related
The power of the pause and the reality check
Three things you should think about before saying “yes” (or “no”)
How to say “No” when saying “No” feels too hard—and why it’s OK to say “No”
Learn more:
The Empowered Highly Sensitive Person's Journal: 52 Weeks of Guided Prompts for Self-Care by April Snow
April Snow’s Expansive Heart website
“How to Set Boundaries as an HSP” by April Snow
Guided meditations on Insight Timer
Other episodes you might enjoy
Woman Worriers Episode 26: April Snow on Highly Sensitive People
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