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Julie Bjelland, a psychotherapist and author specializing in helping Highly Sensitive People, notes "life can hit us with a bunch of emotional wounds or hard times - all impacting both our physical and mental health."

Here is an excerpt of the notes about her HSP Podcast episode: Episode 149: Emotional Wounding Support During Hard Times with Julie Bjelland and Willow McIntosh, the founder of Inluminance and leader of the High Sensory Intelligence movement.

Examples of Emotional Wounding…

    Painful world events and images seen on the news

    Social media, discrimination, hatred…

    Death or pain of loved ones including animals and even trees.

    Negative self talk and self-criticism

    Medical or mental health challenges

Resources & Links Mentioned in the full Episode

HSP Practitioners Directory

'Tips & Tools to Thrive' Topic in the Sensitive Empowerment Community

Brain Training Course

Find the full length episode of this HSP Podcast, plus a list of "loving ways to support yourself" by Julie Bjelland, in my article Emotional Wounding as a Highly Sensitive Person – How to Help Ourselves.

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Actor and activist Evan Rachel Wood speaks with Trevor Noah on The Daily Show about surviving trauma and speaking out.

Singer, songwriter, voice actress and director Sia (Sia Furler) talks with Dr. Gabor Maté for the Talks on Trauma interviews.

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See related article for The Daily Show video interview with Wood, plus quotes from artists and psychotherapists, and resources for healing: How Dealing With Intense Emotions and Trauma Can Release Your Creativity.

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Healthy self-confidence can be an issue for anyone, of course, but may be especially challenging for us as a highly sensitive person.

Here are excerpts from the Show Notes for the original podcast episode with Julie Bjelland and Willow McIntosh:

We often hear how important it is that we believe in ourselves, yet what if we are struggling to make something happen? It is all too easy to slip into self-doubt and a spiral of negative beliefs.

One of the greatest resources we have as HSPs is our commitment to our growth and development. Also, our tenacity to pursue our personal evolution and what is most important to us in the world.

When it comes to believing and trusting ourselves there are some very useful tools and techniques we can use that help us to access this in any and all circumstances.

For instance, when we allow ourselves to look back over our lives we will see that have evolved and we have grown through many challenges.

There is a great deal of evidence of us finding a way and being successful. Even if those examples may not be to the degree we wanted, the evidence is there nonetheless.

In this episode, we take a look at why it is important not to be over-critical when we are in transition or doing our best to achieve something important.

Instead by recognizing the deeper truth of our ability we can access and develop a reliable source of trust and belief in ourselves.

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See full podcast episode and much more in article How to build your confidence as a highly sensitive person.

Learn about articles, books, podcasts, free and paid courses, a private community and more to help Highly Sensitive People thrive by Julie Bjelland, LMFT at her site Sensitive Empowerment. 
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Dr. Natasha Fallahi is a mind-body health expert and functional medicine practitioner.

Based on her years of research and personal experience, she notes there are 6 Sensitivity Types — mental, emotional, physical, chemical, social, and energetic.

Also, 5 health issues that indicate you might be a Highly Sensitive Person: Chronic fatigue, Overstimulation, Autoimmunity, Anxiety, and Gut imbalance.

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But she also writes:

"Despite popular belief, being a HSP (highly sensitive person) is a blessing- not a curse.

"Being highly sensitive allows you to view and experience the world in a very different light than other individuals."

This audio is an excerpt from a previously published video webinar featuring Dr. Fallahi for The Shift Network.

Learn more about her work at her site.

Two Related podcast episodes:

How Can Highly Sensitive People Manage Anxiety?

How to Live Better With Sensory Overload

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How Can High Ability Adults Understand and Ameliorate Their Anxiety?

"Exceptionally bright human beings are infinitely more than the sum of their complex intellects and remarkable talents."

From description on a page for the Let’s Talk 2e Adult Conference, for the presentation "The Role of Anxiety in the Lives of Gifted Adults: Origins, Manifestations, and Amelioration" with Patricia Susan Jackson, M.A., R.C.C.

The description continues:

"Gifted adults have the inborn capacity for extraordinary cognitive, affective, physical and intuitive functioning.

"They have a core substrate of advanced and accelerated functions within the brain which is enhanced or inhibited by their interface in the environment.

"Due to their innate differences from the norm, there may be a gross lack of fit and absent or inadequate opportunities for them to develop holistically, without injury.

"Yet, it is every gifted person’s birthright to live a fully actuated “switched-on” life.

"We will examine guiding principles, habits, mindset and skills that contribute to a life well-lived for this extraordinary populace.

"Central to this discussion will be recognizing the complex role of anxiety in their lived experiences."

Learn about this and other recordings from the Let’s Talk 2e Adult Conference - which "provides highly relevant and relatable sessions addressing:
Self Awareness
Personal Fulfillment
Professional Fulfillment
…to help gifted and 2e adults find joy and meaning in their lives."

See video clips with some speakers and learn more in article:

How To Thrive More as a High Ability Adult – the Let’s Talk 2e Adult Conference

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The Let’s Talk 2e Adult Conference hosted by Julie Skolnick was an online event with presentations by 16+ experts “sharing powerful strategies on everything from dating to self-advocacy.”

In this short clip from the full presentation (about 1 hour) Julie Skolnick introduces psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman for his talk "The New Hierarchy of Needs and 2e."

From the Conference summary:

Over 70 years ago, Abraham Maslow put forward an integrated theory of human motivation that still captures the public imagination.

In this talk, I will present a revised hierarchy of needs that is supported by recent research, and incorporates Maslow’s writings on the importance of self-transcendence, which preoccupied him the last few years of his life.

I will tie my revised hierarchy of needs to the basic needs that are important for 2e adults to gain agency and momentum toward living a more self-actualized life.

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The live Conference is over, but recordings are available.

The Let’s Talk 2e Adult Conference "provides highly relevant and relatable sessions addressing:
Self Awareness
Personal Fulfillment
Professional Fulfillment
…to help gifted and 2e adults find joy and meaning in their lives."

Also see my post for info including some short intro videos (including one with Dr. Kaufman): How To Thrive More as a High Ability Adult – the Let’s Talk 2e Adult Conference.

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Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D. is a cognitive scientist and humanistic psychologist. He is the founder and director of the Center for the Science of Human Potential, and the author of several books, including Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization.

He is also host of The Psychology Podcast, the most popular psychology podcast in the world.

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Susan K. Perry, Ph.D. is author of the books “Loving In Flow,” the Los Angeles Times Bestseller “Writing In Flow,” other nonfiction books, many articles and essays, and a novel.

She is also a social psychologist with expertise in relationships, and is a writing consultant and online instructor.

This is an excerpt from our much longer interview: Susan K. Perry on writing and flow.

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In our interview, she talks about the ‘busy mind’ and being distractible, and how that may be different in writing fiction, compared with nonfiction.

Also, about how fear impacts writing, and helpful attitudes to have about ourselves when creating.

book: Writing in Flow: Keys to Enhanced Creativity

Also see her Psychology Today blog Creating in Flow: The world of creativity—with a twist of rationality.

Susan K. Perry’s site BunnyApe.

In another interview, she commented, “Novelists have more fun.

"Or, to be accurate, those who are open to being their most creative selves have a much pleasanter time than I do when I’m writing an article to a formula, to please some editorial committee, or mainly to pay the bills.”

I asked her: Have you found all that true in writing your novel?

Susan K. Perry: "I wish I could say it’s all been jolly fun. Maybe if after the tenth revision I’d managed to sell the book quickly, I would look back on it differently. But it’s been hard work to make it as good as I feel it is now.

"What’s different is that I feel as though I’ve captured something important to me between the covers of “Kylie’s Heel.”

"I learned so much during this long process that I’m truly glad I dared to write fiction."

From Private article Susan K. Perry on daring to write fiction.

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Imi Lo works with emotionally intense and highly sensitive people, and is the author of books Emotional Sensitivity and Intensity, and The Gift of Intensity: How to Win at Life and Love as a Highly Sensitive and Emotionally Intense Person.

Imi is the founder of Eggshell Therapy and Coaching, working with intense people from around the world.

Listen to our full conversation at her Eggshell Transformations podcast.

Names of psychologists I mentioned, with some related resources:

- Elaine Aron: see video and more in article How To Understand Our Personality Trait of High Sensitivity and Thrive More.

- Julie Bjelland, LMFT: Learn more about her articles, books, podcasts, courses and more to help Highly Sensitive People thrive at her site Sensitive Empowerment.

- Sharon M. Barnes, MSSW, LCSW
* Her site Therapist For Sensitive And Gifted
* Article about her program: How to Gain More Emotional Health – a Program for Creative, Gifted, Sensitive People

- Eric Maisel - see list of his books (one of the sections of my Amazon store)

- Scott Barry Kaufman - author of books including Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind.
Also see list of articles with quotes by Dr. Kaufman. 

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“Highly Sensitive People have particular brain differences that make us more susceptible to high stress, overwhelm and even anxiety.

“Thankfully there is a way to train your HSP brain so you can live your fullest life.”

Sensitivity expert Julie Bjelland, LMFT adds,

“What’s important to understand is…think of it as having two parts of your brain: there’s the emotional brain and there’s the cognitive brain. When the emotional brain is activated, the cognitive brain kind of goes to sleep.”

She adds, "We have an overly activated amygdala, for example, and that creates that fight flight freeze part where our brain doesn’t always understand that we’re not actually in danger so it sends out signals to to release adrenaline and that’s when we notice our heart racing."

Julie Bjelland notes, "Being an 'untrained HSP is really hard. I know because I used to struggle too. Before I knew about this trait of high sensitivity I walked around in the world feeling like my sensitivity was a weakness.

"I felt different and misunderstood, like there was something wrong with me. Now I get to live my life aligned in my center, feeling balanced and strong."

Julie Bjelland, LMFT is a psychotherapist, author, and founder of the online community, Sensitive Empowerment.

Visit her site to learn more about her course Brain-Training for the Highly Sensitive Person - "Techniques to Reduce Anxiety &  Overwhelming Emotions."

Also see videos, audio podcasts and more about her online course in article Brain-Training To Help Highly Sensitive People Thrive.
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This is a short excerpt from a free video: Why Your “Survival Brain” Knows How to Face Trauma and Heal.

[Follow link to register and listen to the full video.]

Producer Sounds True summarizes:

"In this free video session, you'll learn about:

* A Closer Look at the “Fight-Flight-Freeze” Response - Why animals in the wild experience traumatic events all the time...
   
* “Ignore the Stress and Just Keep Pushing” - How our human thinking brain thwarts the survival brain’s natural ability to recover from stressful events and situations

* Corrupted Memory Capsules - Why unresolved traumatic memories can cause chronic anxiety, depression, insomnia, and other symptoms—as well as how we can resolve these memory capsules

* Reclaiming Your Ability to Thrive Under Stress - How to turn on your innate ability to recover and stop  your thinking brain from overriding the process…and more."

Note - my old title - "Wild animals don't get PTSD but humans do. Why?" - does not reflect some research Dr. Stanley may not be aware of.

But her programs are designed to help us humans better understand and deal with stress and trauma.

See more links in my video clip Wild animals may recover from stress better than humans do. Why?

Elizabeth Stanley is a Georgetown University professor and creator of Mindfulness-based Mind Fitness Training (MMFT), taught to thousands in civilian and military high-stress environments. MMFT research has been featured on 60 Minutes, the ABC Evening News, NPR, and in Time magazine. A U.S. Army veteran with service in Asia and Europe, she holds degrees from Yale, Harvard, and MIT.

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