In Season 2 Episode 20 Josh and Jessi begin to share the story of their country property. A recent purchase that occurred in the middle of covid it has been a beautiful manifestation of many a prayer over the years. With the ultimate goal of restoring the microbiome of the old 1950s home and the ancient land, these two have embarked on a learning process that is keeping them humble and in a state of trust. As Sensitives, they are moving through this process with a heightened state of awareness and intention regarding the safety and health of the environment. Part one is their personal experince separate and together of finding, financing, and landing their first property. Hop in to hear about their considerations, reflections, and advice now that they've been through it! If you're interested in sourcing or curating your own healthy home, this series is for you.

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Season 2 Episode 19 discusses the impact of intense stories on Sensitives. Through all forms of media we can encounter overactivating stories. How do you handle watching violence, death, pain, fear, shock or panic? Often these are the very experinces we avoid in real life and yet they can so easily find us through everyday shows and social media. How do we process the emotional highs and lows, the nervous system shifts, and the social implications of our strong responses? How do we avoid overactivation? How do we comunicate our needs without feeling like too much or a kill joy when invited to share in an experince with others. Jessi offers from her personal experience - what works, what's challenging, and what she is still learning. Read more on this over on the Mêrfleur Journal.

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Season 2 Episode 18 is out first ever attempt at an experimental book club! Join Jessi as she reads through impactful books and offers her personal call outs and take aways for you as a Sensitive. Pick up a copy of the current read - When the Body Says No or download the audible version. Together with Jessi we will move through chapters 1-8 and uncover the impact of emotion repression on our sensitive bodies. A powerful read and one of Jessi's new all time favorites, this is not one to miss. Grab a drink and curl up in a cozy chair as Jessi guides us through and motivates us all to finish this life altering read!

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Season 2 Episode 17 is what you need to hear right now. Jessi shares how you may be blocking yourself from fully healing. You experience a chemical and emotional high from stressful living, the high of your body's alarm mode. How do we as Sensitives uniquely find ourselves addicted to the very lifestyle that makes us unwell? Jessi shares the kinds of stressors that will overactivate Sensitives and explains why we can be so easily impacted with an illustration of a protective pillow. She also describes the physical chemicals and societal norms that keep us returning to the drug of our alarm mode. She reviews the primal drive we have to seek approval from our guardians and how this too can keep us from jumping off the necessary cliff and doing the hard work of healing.

Jessi gets into the nitty gritty of how we as empaths deny ourselves the core needs, repress our emotions, and choose to "serve" others as an escape. A dip into family trauma and personal capacity leads us into reviewing what we are open to clearing and healing in our lifetime. She spends the second half of the talk discussing the physical impact of stress addiction. She shares the lab measurements she uses in her health practice to review and analyze stress resilience and how allopathic and functional medicine treat and approach the results. Jessi shares her personal theory around the connection between stress addiction, overactivation, and the label of ADHD.

She leaves you with steps to take if you are beginning to realize you do have an addiction to stress and casts the vision of how it will feel to be in your healing calm state. Let's together slowly step away from our society's programing and bring in more of what's good and affirming and healing into the world.

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Season 2 Episode 16 is a direct and loving conversation between an introvert and extrovert, Jessi and her dear friend Anne Buehner! Long time friends, they've traveled through many life season together, navigating moments of misunderstanding, miscommunication, and straight up confusion. With raw transparency, they share their experiences and learnings, where they fall in the spectrum of introversion and extroversion, and how to honor each others differences with clear communication. Anne gives introverts helpful feedback, like how they can graciously turn down invites without overexplaining or projecting. Jessi shares her outgoing introvert/social hermit tendencies and how she's begun to release fears and embrace her unique needs with ease and grace. Together they offer a rare glimpse into a loving relationship between two sides of the energy spectrum. Ultimately, Anne and Jessi show us that however we gain energy and express ourselves in the world, we need each other. We are truly better together.

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Season 2 Episode 15 is Jessi's personal definition of herself and those who also do not fit perfectly into the extreme boxes of introvert or extrovert, social or unsocial, loud or quiet. She discusses how she embodies it all. Energy levels, capacity, environment and who is on the scene can shift her self-expression greatly. Are you also more in the middle of the spectrum? If so, this episode will be alot of yes! I'm not alone! Finally, someone gets it... Labels and boxes can be helpful up to a point, but do not discount the validity of your unique features and giftings within and around them. This episode goes out to all of Jessi's fellow social hermits!

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Season 2 Episode 14 reviews the concept of labels, why they can be helpful and when to use or not use them. Jessi goes over the difference between the term introvert and extrovert and discusses the variances between empaths and and the skill of empathy. She clarifies how she personally defines and utilizes the term sensitive in this space and explains the difference between those with innate sensitivity and those who develop sensitivities. An episode of language, definition, and understanding, listen in if you have found in the past you struggle to fit in to pre-defined boxes or have a hard time understanding those in the middle, the grey, the undefinable. You are welcome here!

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Season 2 Episode 13 invites on Jessi's husband of 10 years, Josh Agadoni, to casually share their experince with partnership. Both sensitives, one moderately and one highly, these two have navigated personal pain, differing values, family expectations and much more to create a unified and tender marriage. Whether you're single or partnered this peek into their story offers hope and exemplifies lessons you can tuck away for contemplation. While in no way claiming perfection, these two do have some years under their belt and have lots to share. A small toe dip into their deep pool, this episode is one of many that Josh and Jessi hope to share as they continue to naviagte and curate healthy partnership as sensitives.

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In Season 2 Episode 12 Jessi walks through her perspective on curating and building a business as a sensitive. From the start of her nutritional therapy practice to now, 3+ years later, she shares what it's like to interact with the societal norms and trends, how to navigate all the marketed formulas, and how to filter the networking aspect. With honetsy and raw examples from her own process, she demonstrates that it is possible to be a sensitive entrepeneur and find a form of success and peace within it. Jessi leaves us with a glimpse into her vision, describing what's next for Merfleur, her practice, this podcast, and more.

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Season 2 Episode 11 closes out our mini-series on embracing sensitivity in all areas of our lives. Jessi spends this episode sharing her unique background around exercise. From childhood play, to young adult sports teams, to a college eating disorder, to a deeply held punishment mentality, to the strong hold it had over her self-worth, she sets the context for sensitive-based movement recommendations. She explains why she stepped out of intense, contracting, and pain-focused forms of exercise and leaned into breath-filled, expanding rhythmic movement. A very personal episode, Jessi invites us into her own experience of healing this layer of health and shows us how to cultivate our own authentic form of movement that aligns with our sensitive nature. If you've ever felt like the exercise styles of others give you opposite results or if you feel trapped in an unhealthy mentality around movement and body image, you may find comfort and encouragement by listening in on this episode.

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