Welcome to the fifth episode of the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane Elizabeth Aston and Elisha May!

We are High Sensory People, which means that like 20-30% of the world’s population, we were born with the genetic trait now referred to as High Sensory Intelligence®. The scientific name of the trait is Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) but it’s commonly known right now as being highly sensitive. We are passionate about raising awareness about the HSP trait and reframing it from being highly sensitive to High Sensory. 

In this week’s episode we talk about having high standards and perfectionism:

Thank you so much for joining us!

We would love to hear from you so please let us know below  if you have any comments, questions, or ideas for future episodes.

You can also get in touch with us at [email protected] 

You can find out more about us and the work we do at janeelizabethaston.com and elisha-may.com

Find out more about High Sensory Intelligence® and how we became High Sensory Coaches with Willow McIntosh at Inluminance

You can find resources and courses for HSPs on Julie Bjelland's website

We are eternally grateful to Dr. Elaine Aron for all of her research and for bringing this trait to the attention of the world. You can find out more and do the original HSP test on Dr. Elaine Aron’s website.

Thank you to Nathan Wills for the wonderful original music. 

Welcome to the fourth episode of the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane Elizabeth Aston and Elisha May! 

We are High Sensory People, which means that like 20-30% of the world’s population, we were born with the genetic trait now referred to as High Sensory Intelligence®. The scientific name of the trait is Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) but it’s commonly known right now as being highly sensitive. We are passionate about raising awareness about the HSP trait and reframing it from being highly sensitive to High Sensory. 

In this episode, we talk about the importance of managing our environments at home and at work to support our High Sensory Intelligence.

This includes discussion about where we live, the importance of getting enough sleep, and ways we have found to make travel easier for us, and the importance of unstructured time to rest and recharge ourselves as High Sensory People. We talk about the vital role spending time in nature plays for us in helping us to stay in balance so that we can make the most of, and enjoy our High Sensory abilities.

We, like many HSPs, have found that self-employment or running our own businesses suits us better than working for others because we can control our work environment and also our work schedule. It’s important to build in breaks as we need them, but HSP work very efficiently, and given the right conditions, we can often achieve more in 4 hours than a non-HSP can get done in twice the time. Finally, we touch on some of the ways in which people have been valued at work in the past, and why this needs to change in order to get the best out of High Sensory People.

Thank you so much for joining us!

If you have any comments, questions, or ideas for future episodes, we’d love to hear from you. And please subscribe, like and review our podcast!

You can also get in touch with us at [email protected] 

Find out more about us and the work we do at janeelizabethaston.com and elisha-may.com

Find out more about High Sensory Intelligence® and how we became High Sensory Coaches with Willow McIntosh at Inluminance 

You can find resources and courses for HSPs on Julie Bjelland's website

We are eternally grateful to Dr. Elaine Aron for all of her research and for bringing this trait to the attention of the world. You can find out more and do the original HSP test on Dr. Elaine Aron’s website.

Thank you to Nathan Wills for the wonderful original music. 

Welcome to the third episode of the High Sensory People podcast with Jane Elizabeth Aston and Elisha May! 

We are High Sensory People – HSP – which means that like 20-30% of the world’s population, we were born with the genetic trait now referred to as High Sensory Intelligence®. The scientific name of the trait is Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) but it’s commonly known right now as being highly sensitive. We are passionate about raising awareness about the HSP trait and reframing it from being highly sensitive to High Sensory. 

In this episode, we talk about the vital importance of self-care for us as High Sensory People, and why it’s not selfish – because when we take care of ourselves, everyone benefits.

Although we need to prioritise self-care to show up authentically in the world and for our gifts to shine, some of us have found it difficult to do this. Because we spent so many years knowing what everyone around us needed, we may have put other people’s needs above our own, to our detriment, and ultimately everyone else’s too. Or we might not even have known what our needs were until we got too exhausted and unwell to carry on the way we were.

We talk honestly about our experiences and how we have learned, through trial and error, to take care of our high sensory selves. For example, building in plenty of downtime; alone time and time to rest, reset and restore, has been transformative because when we’re balanced and able to live in our truth, we can really shine. These days, we know when we’re not prioritising self-care enough, because we can read and respond to the signs. And when we put ourselves and our self-care needs first, it puts us in touch with the truth of who we are and what we are here to do in the world, and ultimately, everyone benefits from that.

Thank you so much for joining us!

Please let us know if you have any comments, questions, or ideas for future episodes. 

You can also get in touch with us at [email protected] 

You can find out more about us and the work we do at janeelizabethaston.com and elisha-may.com

Find out more about High Sensory Intelligence® and how we became High Sensory Coaches with Willow McIntosh at Inluminance

You can find resources and courses for HSPs on Julie Bjelland's website

We are eternally grateful to Dr. Elaine Aron for all of her research and for bringing this trait to the attention of the world. You can find out more and do the original HSP test on Dr. Elaine Aron’s website.

Thank you to Elisha's brother, Nathan Wills, for the wonderful original music. 

Welcome to the second episode of the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane Elizabeth Aston and Elisha May! 

We are High Sensory People, which means that like 20-30% of the world’s population, we were born with the genetic trait now referred to as High Sensory Intelligence®. The scientific name of the trait is Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) but it’s commonly known right now as being highly sensitive. We are passionate about raising awareness about the HSP trait and reframing it from being highly sensitive to High Sensory. 

In this episode, we talk about the High Sensory trait now referred to as High Sensory Intelligence® and our experiences of being High Sensory – or HSPs. This includes some of the biological and brain differences between High Sensory People compared to others without the trait, such as a more active and reactive nervous system, and in the brain, a more active amygdala and insula, and how these mean that we experience life very differently to non HSPs.

We chat through the DOES acronym devised by Dr. Elaine Aron to describe the trait in terms of D = depth of processing, O = overstimulation, E = emotional reactivity and empathy, and S = sensing the subtle. You can find links to her research and books, as well as her HSP test and her test for the high sensation seeking (HSS) aspect of the trait that we mention at Dr. Elaine Aron’s website 

 We share some of our past experiences of not managing the trait very well, especially before we knew about it, as a result of overstimulation and overwhelm, and some of the self-care strategies that we have found to be most helpful for us.

We also talk about some of the profound joys of being High Sensory, including feeling our emotions very deeply, being naturally able to understand and empathise with others, to form deep connections and also how, when we come to understand and work in harmony with the trait rather than battle against it, we may be able to experience the world around us in ways which can be profoundly magical and moving.

Thank you so much for joining us!

If you have any comments, questions, or ideas for future episodes, we’d love to hear from you.

You can also get in touch with us at [email protected] 

Find out more about us and the work we do at janeelizabethaston.com and elisha-may.com

Find out more about High Sensory Intelligence® and how we became High Sensory Coaches with Willow McIntosh at Inluminance 

You can find resources and courses for HSPs on Julie Bjelland's website

We are eternally grateful to Dr. Elaine Aron for all of her research and for bringing this trait to the attention of the world. You can find out more and do the original HSP test on Dr. Elaine Aron’s website.

Thank you to Nathan Wills for the wonderful original music. 

Welcome to the very first episode of the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane Elizabeth Aston and Elisha May!

We are High Sensory People, which means that like 20-30% of the world’s population, we were born with the genetic trait now referred to as High Sensory Intelligence®. The scientific name of the trait is Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) but it’s commonly known right now as being highly sensitive. We are passionate about raising awareness about the HSP trait and reframing it from being highly sensitive to High Sensory. We want to increase the visibility of the trait, change how the world sees High Sensory People, and inspire and empower all HSPs.

In this episode, we cover three introductory topics to introduce ourselves, and the High Sensory trait. We talk about how we discovered we are High Sensory People, how being HSP impacted our lives before we knew about it, and how life changing it was when we each found out that we were born with a genetic trait that means we’re wired differently to the majority.

We also explain why we called this podcast High Sensory People, and why we prefer the terms High Sensory to highly sensitive, because we believe that it doesn’t do justice to the extraordinary qualities and abilities that we have as High Sensory People.

We believe that High Sensory People are so needed in the world, but the trait is not well known, and can be misunderstood. We want to help to change that, and we would love you to join us on this journey!

Thank you to Elisha’s brother Nathan Wills for the wonderful original music. 

Don’t forget to subscribe, and do let us know if you have any comments, questions, or ideas for future episodes. 

Or get in touch with us at [email protected] 

You can find out more about us and the work we do at janeelizabethaston.com and elisha-may.com

Find out more about High Sensory Intelligence® and how we became High Sensory Coaches with Willow McIntosh at Inluminance

You can find resources and courses for HSPs on Julie Bjelland's website

And finally,  an apology…

We say in the show that Dr. Elaine Aron said that she wished she had never used the word “sensitive” to describe the SPS trait. However, this may not actually be true, so please accept our apologies for this misquote. We are eternally grateful to Dr. Aron for all of her research and for bringing this trait to the attention of the world. You can find out more about her wonderful work, and do the original HSP test on Dr. Elaine Aron’s website.

Welcome to the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane Elizabeth Aston and Elisha May!

We are High Sensory People, which means that like 20-30% of the world’s population, we were born with the genetic trait now referred to as High Sensory Intelligence®. The scientific name of the trait is Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) but it’s commonly known right now as being highly sensitive. 

We are passionate about raising awareness of the HSP trait and reframing it from being highly sensitive to High Sensory. We want to increase the visibility of the trait, change how the world sees High Sensory People, and inspire and empower all HSPs.

High Sensory People process the information around them very deeply through all their senses and naturally perceive things that many people miss. We share many similarities in how we experience the world, but we each have our own unique version of High Sensory Intelligence. 

Because we process information so deeply, it can be challenging to give ourselves what we need to thrive, rather than just survive, in a world that’s not set up for High Sensory People. But it can be overwhelming, especially before we understand how the trait can work for us, and how resilient we really are. What has sometimes in the past felt like our biggest weaknesses, can in fact, when harnessed effectively, become our greatest strength and source of power.

We are not scientific experts, but we’ve got our lived experience of this trait and we want to share this with you so that the trait is better known and understood. High Sensory People bring so many gifts that the world needs now, more than ever. 

We would love you to join us on this journey!

Do let us know if you have any comments, questions, or ideas for future episodes. You can get in touch with us at [email protected] 

You can find out more about us at janeelizabethaston.com and elisha-may.com

Find out more about High Sensory Intelligence® and how we became High Sensory Coaches with Willow McIntosh at Inluminance

You can find resources and courses for HSPs on Julie Bjelland's website

We are eternally grateful to Dr. Elaine Aron for all of her research and for bringing this trait to the attention of the world. You can find out more and do the original HSP test on Dr. Elaine Aron’s website.

Thank you to Nathan Wills for the wonderful original music.

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