Being a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) is a fairly new identifier to describe anyone who is highly responsive to their environment. This high responsiveness can appear in a variety of ways and different arenas of our lives - physically, emotionally, in relationships, simply going about our days and interacting with the world around us.

In 1996, American clinical research psychologist Dr. Elaine Aron wrote her seminal book The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive in a World That Overwhelms You, and it was in this book that term HSP was coined. Author Jenn Granneman joins me to talk about her new book on this topic of HSP, a book that includes new research that furthers supports Dr. Aron's findings, as well as exploring history revealing that this gift has always been with us, we just didn't identify it until recently, and welcoming in specific insights and tools to elevate this awesome gift that can indeed deep the quality of our entire life.

Jenn Granneman's book, who she co-authored with Andre Sólo, Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World was released on February 28, 2023, and quickly became a bestseller in the category of Popular Psychology Studies and was recently chosen by Amazon's editor's as the Editor's Pick for Non-Fiction.

Today she joins me to talk about what HSP is, the misconceptions, how being HSP is actually a source of strength, how to approach relationships and the work place as well as talking about why she hopes this book starts a Sensitive Revolution.

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Explore Jenn Granneman's websites on HSP and Introversion below, as well as other links you might be interested in:

• Sensitive Refuge, blog centered on the topic of thriving as an HSP
  • Recent post: 27 Things You Do Because You're a Highly Sensitive Person

• Jenn Granneman on IG: @jenngranneman
• Introvert, Dear, blog centered on the topic of thriving as an Intovert
  • The Secret Lives of Introverts: Inside Our Hidden World, book
  • episode #171: The Secret Lives of Introverts, my conversation with the author Jenn Granneman: The Simple Sophisticate podcast

• Podcast Episodes you might be interested in:
  • episode #44: The Many Gifts of Being HSP
  • episode #315: Being in Love, Being HSP and Being at Peace with Ourselves and the One We Love

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