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"Highly sensitive people (HSPs) experience the world differently and we also need to take care of ourselves in unique ways.

"This episode will help validate your experience in the world and provide useful tips to support a higher level of wellness."

Highly Sensitive Psychotherapist Julie Bjelland, LMFT, writing about an episode of her HSP Podcast.

Hear the full episode, and see list of Resources & Links Mentioned in Episode, in article "Conscious Living and Wellness for Your Life as a Highly Sensitive Person." 

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What is Twice exceptional or 2e? Julie Skolnick explains "This is a person identified as gifted with a learning difference or learning disability.

"Now, why did I say person? Why didn't I say kid? Well, because we don't outgrow our giftedness or our 2e-ness. It's something that's with us throughout our life and something we need to understand and manage and love so we can live our best lives."

The audio here is from two of her videos: "What is Twice Exceptional / 2e?" and "Emotion Regulation and the Twice Exceptional Profile."

See the videos and much more about the program she hosts in my article How To Thrive More as a High Ability Adult – the Let’s Talk 2e Adult Conference. 

Julie Skolnick M.A., J.D. is "the Founder of With Understanding Comes Calm, LLC, through which she passionately guides parents of gifted and distractible children, mentors 2e adults, trains teachers on how to understand and address 2e strengths and struggles."

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"Everyone has experienced trauma."

Keesha Ewers, PhD continues in a post: "Trauma can be experienced as physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Research tells us that the physical kind is much easier to recover from than the other three types.

"In addition to the four kinds of trauma, there is also TRAUMA and there is trauma. I call capital “T” trauma the kind you usually think about when you hear the word trauma: physical violence, sexual abuse, emotional and mental and spiritual neglect/abandonment, and undernourishment.

"This is the kind of trauma I studied in my 2013 Healing Un-Resolved Trauma (HURT) Study. I found that the initial wound along our developmental map created architectural changes in the brain, nervous system and our belief and behavior patterns."
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The first part of this audio is from her video "The Impact on Your Health from Stressful Childhood Events."

One of the related resources by Dr. Ewers is The Adverse Childhood Experience Quiz - "Do you ever wonder the ways in which your childhood may be impacting your life today? This is a way to quantify some of your traumas from early life."

The 2nd part of the audio is from a video about her program "You Unbroken."

Dr. Ewers summarizes: “This program consists of me guiding you through videos, worksheets, and audio recordings through a trauma healing program for emotional freedom. Make sure you know that you might also need a therapist.

"The program gives you the tools you need to become attuned and aware of your emotional world and will help you stay that way in spite of the inevitable stressful situations in your life."

Learn more about You Unbroken. 

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Dr. Keesha Ewers is "board certified in functional medicine and Ayurvedic medicine. She is a doctor of sexology, a trauma-informed psychotherapist, a family practice advanced registered nurse practitioner with a specialty in integrative medicine, a conscious dying doula and the founder and medical director of the Academy for Integrative Medicine Health Coach Certification Program."

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Julie Bjelland, a sensitivity expert and psychotherapist, talks with Willow McIntosh about why highly sensitive people (HSPs) can "often feel like we are in constant battle with ourselves internally."

Bjelland explains:

"It is almost like interference with our own energy and well-being. Whilst this sounds counterintuitive to our own happiness we can often be unaware of how much we are doing it.

"The cause of this is often as a result of feeling we needed to hide our true feelings as children in order to protect ourselves. The trouble is as adults this no longer serves us and can have a great cost to our health, well-being, and personal success."

This is a brief audio excerpt from a much longer video interview - which you can view in this article (which also has links to resources): Why can we feel resistance to ourself as a highly sensitive person?

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Artist and Mentor Nicola Newman says "My passion is supporting Creative Hearts to build loving relationships with themselves, express their creativity, trust their inner wisdom and carve out a life that’s personally meaningful and fulfilling to them."

Here is an excerpt of one of her podcast episodes. Her Show Notes include:

Often when we begin a new creative project, we have a vague, or sometimes very upfront, fear of failure attached.

We don’t want to “get it wrong”.

We don’t want to look like a fool or be embarrassed by what we create.

We want people to be impressed!

And we want to have the reassurance that it will all work out.

However, what I’ve found after years of making things, whether it’s been producing documentaries, renovating a house, making a website, writing a book, building a heart-led business, or making a painting is this, you’ve got to trust the process.

But what does that mean – trust the process?

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Learn about her resources for creatives in my article Trust the Creative Process With Artist and Mentor Nicola Newman.

including her free seven-day Art of Creative Living introductory course

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This is a short audio clip from the video for an episode of the HSP Podcast by sensitivity expert and therapist Julie Bjelland on "Understanding the Polyvagal Theory of stress and how stress impacts your biology as an HSP."

From the Show Notes for podcast:

Here are some questions answered in this event:

1. What is Polyvagal Theory and how might it help HSPs to understand it?

2. How might regulating the nervous system lower the challenges of sensitivity?

3. How can HSPs leverage Polyvagal Theory to enable their unique creative genius to thrive?

See much more - including the full video conversation with Sukie Baxter - in my article How Polyvagal Theory Helps Highly Sensitive People Deal With Stress

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The first part of this audio with Dr. Ron Siegel is from his Talks at Google presentation titled "The Science of Mindfulness."

He notes, "It turns out that in recent years, neurobiologists, clinical researchers, and mental health professionals have discovered that a number of ancient practices, like mindfulness, that have been refined over the last 2,500 years or so, are extremely useful for helping us to work with all sorts of everyday emotional difficulties, everything from anxiety and depression to serious difficulties like chronic pain or, perhaps, relational conflict."

The second part is from "Healing Through Mindfulness" - a downloadable program produced by Sounds True.

Ronald D. Siegel, PsyD, is assistant professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School.

He is presenting on the topic "Mindfulness and the evolution of anxiety" at the Anxiety Super Conference November 28th - December 4th, 2022. Follow link to article with videos and more info.
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"It makes a big difference in your life when you learn how to balance your sensitive nervous system."

High sensitivity therapist and author Julie Bjelland notes :

"You don't have to suffer so much in the world. I used to be somebody that suffered a lot with anxiety and depression and just overwhelm and feeling like I couldn't do everything that needed to be done in the world.

"It is something that makes a big difference in your life when you start to learn how to balance the sensitive nervous system because it changes everything.

"I wouldn't be doing any of the things that i'm doing today if I hadn't learned how to balance my own nervous system."

This is a short excerpt from her much longer video about her course Brain-Training for the Highly Sensitive Person - "Techniques to Reduce Anxiety &  Overwhelming Emotions."

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Julie Bjelland is a psychotherapist and author specializing in high sensitivity. This is a brief excerpt from an episode of her HSP Podcast in which she interviews psychiatrist and empath Judith Orloff.

Topics in the full interview include:

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?

Listen to the full interview and see links in article:
How does empathy work? How is it related to high sensitivity?

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"I’ve kind of been a student of self-acceptance my whole life because I’ve had to be."

Author Elizabeth Gilbert (“Eat, Pray, Love” and “Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear”) was one of the speakers at the Self-Acceptance Summit produced by Sounds True.

Host Tami Simon: Let’s start right with self-acceptance as a topic that you care about – why is this an important topic to you personally

Elizabeth Gilbert: Well, I mean I’ve kind of been a student of it my whole life because I’ve had to be, because its absence – it’s moments of absence – in my life have brought me the darkest pain I’ve ever been in.

And the only way out of that pain of the absence of self-acceptance was to claw, study, fight, beg and inch my way toward it.

And it’s been what I’ve been up to for a long time, and it’s something that I still have to work on.

And there are times where I lose it. I’d have to find my way back to it again and again and again – which of course always means finding your way back to your heart – it’s the only place you’re ever gonna find it.

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Hear the full length interview and many others:
Self-Acceptance Summit recordings

Article with more details, quotes, videos: The Self-Acceptance Summit

A related article: Elizabeth Gilbert on fear and courage and being creative.

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