Ep 8 - Why Do I Feel Lazy and Unmotivated All the Time? You Might Be a HSP

You care deeply about your life, your work, your people - and yet some days you physically cannot make yourself do the thing. Then comes the guilt, and that familiar inner voice: you're just being lazy. If that sounds like you, this episode is going to change how you see yourself.

In this week's episode, I'm sharing why highly sensitive people burn out more easily, the moment in Asia when my own body "closed the shop" on a Friday night, and how to tell the difference between laziness, HSP burnout, and something that needs more support.

Tune in to learn:

• The real reason you can't bring yourself to do the things you actually care about
• Why HSP burnout is so often mistaken for laziness (and why the guilt is the giveaway)
• The high-achiever trap that keeps sensitive women stuck in repeating burnout cycles
• Five signs your "laziness" is actually a nervous system in functional freeze
• A two-minute practice you can do right now to signal safety to your body

Check out the [blog post that accompanies this episode](ADD URL: blog post)

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Other links mentioned in this episode:

• My meditations and somatic tracks on Insight Timer. 
• Why HSPs Need Embodiment Practices

If you're a highly sensitive, high-achieving woman who's ready to stop surviving and start living a life that finally feels like yours, then I'd LOVE to help you…

✨ Start with the free Awaken Your More Challenge

💖 Ready to go deeper? Meant for More is my 1:1 coaching experience for women moving from burnout into peace, power and purpose.

Ep 07 - How to Build Confidence as a Highly Sensitive Person

Everywhere you look, someone seems more confident than you. Louder, bolder, chattier, seemingly radiating energy while you overthink every word you said three days ago. If you're a highly sensitive person, it's easy to believe confidence is something everyone else got given and you missed out on.

In this week's episode, I'm sharing my own story of being labelled a "shrinking violet" as a child, the rebellious years I spent trying to outrun my sensitivity, and what actually built my confidence in the end - because it wasn't becoming louder.

Tune in to learn:

• The childhood label that shaped how I showed up for decades - and how I unlearned it
• Why so many HSPs become high achievers, and why success never quite satisfies
• The Buddhist-rooted practice that strips away comparison at its core
• Small daily moments that quietly build your confidence muscle (no stage required)
• The mindset flip that turns your sensitivity from liability into your greatest edge

Check out the blog post that accompanies this episode: HERE 

Tracks mentioned in this episode:

• Morning Mindfulness for an Overthinking Mind
• Putting Down Perfectionism

My links:
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If you're a highly sensitive, high-achieving woman who's ready to stop surviving and start living a life that finally feels like yours, then I'd LOVE to help you…

✨ Start with the free Awaken Your More Challenge - your first step towards peace, power and purpose.

💖 Ready to go deeper? Meant for More is my 1:1 coaching container for women moving from burnout into peace, power and purpose.

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Ep 6 - How to choose a job if you're a HSP

Ever wondered why you can't just settle into a job like everyone else seems to? If you're a highly sensitive person, the career struggle isn't a flaw in you - it's a mismatch between who you are and the conditions you've been trying to function in.

In this week's episode, I'm sharing the 7 steps that took me from burning out in corporate PR and teaching to building work that actually fits who I am - including the exact questions to journal, the three-column exercise I swear by, and why your intuition belongs in every career decision.

Tune in to learn:

• Why HSPs burn out in jobs that look perfect on paper
• The identity questions to answer before any career questions
• How to work out which activities drain you and which sustain you
• My three-column non-negotiables exercise (including the HELL NO column)
• How to flip the interview and assess them instead

Check out the blog that goes with this HERE

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Other links mentioned in this episode:

• Guided meditation for empaths on Insight Timer

If you're a highly sensitive, high-achieving woman who wants to step into peace, power and purpose, I'd LOVE to help you…

✨ Start with my free 5-day challenge, Awaken Your More - your first step to reconnecting with who you actually are.

💖 Ready to go deeper? Meant for More is my 1:1 coaching experience for becoming a woman led by purpose, not pressure.

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If you're a highly sensitive person who's spent years in talk therapy and still can't shake the 2am spirals, the dread in your chest, the sense that you understand everything and yet nothing's actually changed, this episode is for you.

In this week's episode, I'm sharing why talk therapy alone often isn't enough for HSPs, and what embodiment practices do differently. I'll walk you through my own journey with somatic healing, the research behind why our nervous systems process things so much more deeply, and the practices that have genuinely shifted things for me and my clients.

Tune in to learn:

• Why talk therapy can leave HSPs feeling insightful yet still stuck
• The nervous system science behind why our anxiety is sensory and emotional, not just thought-driven
• What a "bottom-up" approach to healing actually means, and why it works when talking doesn't
• My top embodiment practices for HSPs, from somatic touch to dance to yoga
• How breathwork sends your vagus nerve a message of safety

Check out the blog post that accompanies this episode: [BLOG POST URL]

My links:
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If you're a highly sensitive, high-achieving woman who's ready to stop surviving and start living a life that finally feels like yours, then I'd LOVE to help you…

✨ Start with the free Awaken Your More Challenge — five days to reconnect with what you actually want.

💖 Ready to go deeper? Meant for More is my 1:1 coaching container for women moving from burnout into peace, power and purpose.

There's enormous pressure to have a calling, a clear sense of what you're here to do — and for sensitive, intuitive people that pressure lands differently, because meaning actually matters to us. In this episode I'm getting honest about why you can tick every box on paper and still feel like something's missing, and what I've learned about the difference between the life you build and the life you're actually living.

Tune in to learn:

• Why you can achieve everything you set out to and still feel hollow — and what that disconnect is actually telling you
• The difference between your outer purpose and your inner purpose, and why mixing them up causes a very particular kind of suffering
• Why "finding your gift" isn't about searching harder or collecting more
• The questions I come back to when I've lost touch with what makes me feel alive

Check out the blog post that accompanies this episode: Found on my website

Rachel's links:

• Website: awakenwithrachel.com
• Instagram: @awakenwithrachel_
• Substack: https://substack.com/@awakenwithrachel
• Join the newsletter: https://awakenwithrachel.com/

Other links mentioned in this episode:

• Awaken Your More free 5-day challenge: https://awakenwithrachel.com/challenge/

Are you a sensitive, high-achieving woman who's ready to stop playing small and step into the life you know you're meant for? I work with women like you in my 1:1 coaching programme, Meant for More — a deep, somatic and coaching journey to help you find peace, reclaim your power, and move toward your purpose.

🌿 Meant for More 1:1 Coaching: https://awakenwithrachel.com/contact/
✨Book a discovery call: https://awakenwithrachel.com/contact/

Maybe you've always felt things more deeply than the people around you. Maybe you've been called "too sensitive" and never quite known what to do with that. In this episode I'm getting personal about what being a highly sensitive person actually looks and feels like from the inside — not from a research paper, but from my own life. If you've ever had a flicker of recognition around the HSP label, this one is for you.

Tune in to learn:

• What Elaine Aron's research actually says about highly sensitive people — and why the label is a lens, not a ceiling
• Why HSPs process the world so much more intensely than others, and what that costs you if you don't have the right tools
• The orchid vs dandelion analogy that finally helped me understand why my environment matters so much
• Why sensitive people need their work to mean something — and what happens when it doesn't
• Why depth in relationships isn't just a preference for HSPs — it's a genuine need

Check out the blog post that accompanies this episode: 

Rachel's links:

• Website: awakenwithrachel.com 
• Instagram: @awakenwithrachel_
• Substack: https://substack.com/@awakenwithrachel
• Join the newsletter: https://awakenwithrachel.com/

Other links mentioned in this episode:

• Awaken Your More free 5-day challenge: https://awakenwithrachel.com/challenge/ 

Are you a sensitive, high-achieving woman who's ready to stop playing small and step into the life you know you're meant for? I work with women like you in my 1:1 coaching programme, Meant for More — a deep, somatic and coaching journey to help you find peace, reclaim your power, and move toward your purpose.

🌿 Meant for More 1:1 Coaching: https://awakenwithrachel.com/contact/
✨ Book a discovery call: https://awakenwithrachel.com/contact/

If you're a sensitive high-achiever who keeps swinging between periods of intense productivity and total collapse — this episode is going to make a lot of things click. Burnout for highly sensitive people isn't just about doing too much. It's a nervous system crisis, a values crisis, and often the result of spending years working against yourself rather than with yourself. In this episode I'm getting personal about my own burnout cycles and sharing exactly why HSPs are wired to hit this wall harder.

Tune in to learn:

• Why highly sensitive people are more vulnerable to burnout than most — and why it often goes unrecognised
• The role perfectionism and people-pleasing play in the slow road to collapse
• Why burnout is a values crisis, not just physical exhaustion
• How the body holds the key to healing — and why mindset work alone won't fix it
• The small daily aligned actions that begin to move you out of burnout, even when you can't walk away from your job

Check out the blog post that accompanies this episode: https://awakenwithrachel.com/why-work-burnout-hits-sensitive-high-achievers-hardest/ 

Rachel's links:

• Website: awakenwithrachel.com
• Instagram: @awakenwithrachel_
• Substack: https://substack.com/@awakenwithrachel 
• Join the newsletter: https://awakenwithrachel.com/ 

Other links mentioned in this episode:

Are you a sensitive, high-achieving woman who's ready to stop playing small and step into the life you know you're meant for? I work with women like you in my 1:1 coaching programme, Meant for More — a deep, somatic and coaching journey to help you find peace, reclaim your power, and move toward your purpose.

🌿 Meant for More 1:1 Coaching: https://awakenwithrachel.com/contact/
 ✨ Book a discovery call: https://awakenwithrachel.com/contact/ 

So many sensitive, high-achieving women know they should trust themselves  but in practice, they're outsourcing decisions to everyone around them, mistaking other people's certainty for wisdom and their own quiet knowing for naivety. In this episode, I'm breaking down what self-trust actually means and why it's the foundation for everything, and the practices that genuinely build it.

Tune in to learn:

• Why self-trust and self-confidence are not the same thing — and why the distinction matters
• How your nervous system and body are the starting point for real self-trust (not mindset work)
• The overlooked connection between boundaries and trusting yourself
• How to tell the difference between intuition and anxiety as a sensitive person
• Why mindfulness is about far more than meditation — and how it quietly rebuilds your inner authority

Check out the blog post that accompanies this episode: https://awakenwithrachel.com/what-does-trusting-myself-actually-mean-a-guide-for-sensitive-people/ 

• Website: awakenwithrachel.com
• Instagram: @awakenwithrachel_
• Substack: https://substack.com/@awakenwithrachel 
• Join the newsletter: https://awakenwithrachel.com/ 

Are you a sensitive, high-achieving woman who's ready to stop playing small and step into the life you know you're meant for? I work with women like you in my 1:1 coaching programme, Meant for More — a deep, somatic and coaching journey to help you find peace, reclaim your power, and move toward your purpose.

🌿 Meant for More 1:1 Coaching: https://awakenwithrachel.com/contact/
 ✨ Book a discovery call: https://awakenwithrachel.com/contact/