Today is the start of a series of episodes we've been eagerly waiting to share with you. We're going to be engaging the stories of some of our dear friends and colleagues in order to help you—our listeners— get a better sense for how to look at and read your own story. In this episode, Dan and Rachael talk with Gwen St. John, a therapist and long-time Allender Center facilitator, about how her experience growing up shaped who she is today as someone with high sensitivity, and how this led her to become a "reader of people and the world." Listen closely to the ways Dan and Rachael engage her stories of harm with care and kindness, and how they invite her to stay in her body while recounting these stories.

Listener Resources:

• Do you relate to high sensitivity? Take a quick survey, recommended by Gwen
• Learn more about Gwen and her counseling practice
• Curious about pursuing your own story work? Learn more about and apply to Story Workshop—applications due August 31, 2021