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Sensitive and Strong
By Annet van Duinen, Professional Certified Coach and International Consultant on High Sensitivity.Health & FitnessMental Health
Sensitive and Strong episodes
- The HS man, a conversation with Tom Falkenstein about the Highly Sensitive man — Sensitive and Strong
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Tom and I had a great conversation about his book, The Highly Sensitive Man’ and all other kinds of things about sensitive men. ---
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1 hr - Worrying — Sensitive and Strong
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The Sensitive and Strong podcast, where sensitivity is a strength, and being a Wild Sensitive is a path to power, is hosted by Annet van Duinen, co-author of The Wild Sensitive, Unlocking the power of the Highly Sensitive High Sensation Seeker. This podcast is for Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) and Sensitive Sensation Seekers who are ready to live boldly, feel deeply, and lead authentically.
In each episode, you’ll find grounded insights, soulful conversations, and practical tools to help you embrace your sensitivity, elevate your emotional well-being, and connect with others who walk this path.
Stuck in a cycle of worry? You’re not alone, and you’re not powerless.
In this episode, we take a closer look at why we worry, especially as Highly Sensitive People, and how to break free from the patterns that keep your mind spinning.You’ll learn simple, effective tools and science-backed strategies to calm your nervous system, shift your focus, and stop overthinking everything. It’s time to replace chronic worry with clarity, presence, and peace of mind.
Tune in and take the first step toward a quieter, calmer inner world.
Explore more at: www.wildsensitive.com
Join the Wild Sensitive Village: A soulful sanctuary for HSPs and HSP-HSSs, filled with resources, community, and inspiration. Opening September , 2025.About Annet van Duinen:
Annet is a professional coach, author, and speaker devoted to helping Highly Sensitive People discover their inner compass. With a background in personal development, and community building, she blends science with soul to empower HSPs to thrive in a fast-moving world.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/annet.vanduinen/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/annet.vanduinenLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annet-van-duinen-wild-sensitive/
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21 min - How to accept your struggles? — Sensitive and Strong
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The Sensitive and Strong podcast, where sensitivity is a strength, and being a Wild Sensitive is a path to power, is hosted by Annet van Duinen, co-author of The Wild Sensitive, Unlocking the power of the Highly Sensitive High Sensation Seeker. This podcast is for Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) and Sensitive Sensation Seekers who are ready to live boldly, feel deeply, and lead authentically.
In each episode, you’ll find grounded insights, soulful conversations, and practical tools to help you embrace your sensitivity, elevate your emotional well-being, and connect with others who walk this path.
How to accept your struggles?
Struggling doesn’t mean you’re failing, it means you’re human.
In this episode, we explore the often difficult but deeply healing process of accepting your struggles, especially as a Highly Sensitive Person.What does acceptance really mean? Why is it so hard? And what shifts once we stop resisting and start allowing what is?
I’ll walk you through the why, the how, and the what’s next, offering gentle reflections and encouragement to help you move forward with more compassion, clarity, and inner peace.
Listen now and give yourself permission to be exactly where you are.
Explore more at: www.wildsensitive.com
Join the Wild Sensitive Village: A soulful sanctuary for HSPs and HSP-HSSs, filled with resources, community, and inspiration. Opening September , 2025.About Annet van Duinen:
Annet is a professional coach, author, and speaker devoted to helping Highly Sensitive People discover their inner compass. With a background in personal development, and community building, she blends science with soul to empower HSPs to thrive in a fast-moving world.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/annet.vanduinen/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/annet.vanduinenLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annet-van-duinen-wild-sensitive/
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22 min - The High Sensation Seeking HSP — Sensitive and Strong
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Crave excitement but need downtime? You might be a High Sensation Seeking HSP.
In this episode, we explore the fascinating and often misunderstood experience of being both Highly Sensitive and High Sensation Seeking, two traits that seem contradictory but often coexist.We’ll dive into the four key aspects of the HSS trait, uncover the unique challenges that come with this dynamic pairing, and highlight the powerful strengths it can unlock when well understood.
If you’ve ever felt like you’re too much and not enough at the same time, this episode is for you.
Tune in to discover how to navigate life with more balance, boldness, and self-compassion as a Wild Sensitive.
Explore more at: www.wildsensitive.com
Join the Wild Sensitive Village: A soulful sanctuary for HSPs and HSP-HSSs, filled with resources, community, and inspiration. Opening September , 2025.About Annet van Duinen:
Annet is a professional coach, author, and speaker devoted to helping Highly Sensitive People discover their inner compass. With a background in personal development, and community building, she blends science with soul to empower HSPs to thrive in a fast-moving world.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/annet.vanduinen/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/annet.vanduinenLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annet-van-duinen-wild-sensitive/
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36 min - What keeps us from thriving? — Sensitive and Strong
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The Sensitive and Strong podcast, where sensitivity is a strength, and being a Wild Sensitive is a path to power, is hosted by Annet van Duinen, co-author of The Wild Sensitive, Unlocking the power of the Highly Sensitive High Sensation Seeker. This podcast is for Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) and Sensitive Sensation Seekers who are ready to live boldly, feel deeply, and lead authentically.
In each episode, you’ll find grounded insights, soulful conversations, and practical tools to help you embrace your sensitivity, elevate your emotional well-being, and connect with others who walk this path.
What’s really holding you back from thriving?
In this episode, we dive into the powerful role our thoughts play in shaping our daily experiences, especially as Highly Sensitive People.You'll learn about common unhelpful thought patterns that quietly sabotage your confidence, peace, and growth. More importantly, you’ll discover how to recognize, challenge, and shift those patterns to create more space for calm, clarity, and alignment.
It’s time to stop surviving and start thriving from the inside out.
Tune in for grounded insights and practical tools to help you break free from limiting thoughts and step into a life that feels more like you.
Explore more at: www.wildsensitive.com
Join the Wild Sensitive Village: A soulful sanctuary for HSPs and HSP-HSSs, filled with resources, community, and inspiration. Opening September , 2025.About Annet van Duinen:
Annet is a professional coach, author, and speaker devoted to helping Highly Sensitive People discover their inner compass. With a background in personal development, and community building, she blends science with soul to empower HSPs to thrive in a fast-moving world.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/annet.vanduinen/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/annet.vanduinenLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annet-van-duinen-wild-sensitive/
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20 min - What you think, you become — Sensitive and Strong
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The Sensitive and Strong podcast, where sensitivity is a strength, and being a Wild Sensitive is a path to power, is hosted by Annet van Duinen, co-author of The Wild Sensitive, Unlocking the power of the Highly Sensitive High Sensation Seeker. This podcast is for Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) and Sensitive Sensation Seekers who are ready to live boldly, feel deeply, and lead authentically.
In each episode, you’ll find grounded insights, soulful conversations, and practical tools to help you embrace your sensitivity, elevate your emotional well-being, and connect with others who walk this path.
Your thoughts shape your reality, so what happens when they start working against you?
In this episode, we explore the powerful connection between your thoughts, your emotions, and your overall well-being, especially as a Highly Sensitive Person.You'll learn how habitual thought patterns can fuel anxiety, self-doubt, and overwhelm, and how to begin shifting those thoughts into ones that truly support your peace, clarity, and confidence.
I’ll share practical tools and gentle mindset shifts to help you quiet the mental noise, reframe unhelpful narratives, and build a healthier, more empowering inner dialogue.
A calming, eye-opening episode for anyone ready to become more intentional with their inner world.
Explore more at: www.wildsensitive.com
Join the Wild Sensitive Village: A soulful sanctuary for HSPs and HSP-HSSs, filled with resources, community, and inspiration. Opening September , 2025.About Annet van Duinen:
Annet is a professional coach, author, and speaker devoted to helping Highly Sensitive People discover their inner compass. With a background in personal development, and community building, she blends science with soul to empower HSPs to thrive in a fast-moving world.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/annet.vanduinen/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/annet.vanduinenLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annet-van-duinen-wild-sensitive/
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24 min - A conversation with Jacquelyn Strickland — Sensitive and Strong
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The Sensitive and Strong podcast, where sensitivity is a strength, and being a Wild Sensitive is a path to power, is hosted by Annet van Duinen, co-author of The Wild Sensitive, Unlocking the power of the Highly Sensitive High Sensation Seeker. This podcast is for Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) and Sensitive Sensation Seekers who are ready to live boldly, feel deeply, and lead authentically.
In each episode, you’ll find grounded insights, soulful conversations, and practical tools to help you embrace your sensitivity, elevate your emotional well-being, and connect with others who walk this path.
How much is too much, and how little is not enough?
In this thoughtful conversation with Jacquelyn Strickland, co-founder of the HSP Gathering Retreats and longtime advocate for Highly Sensitive People, we explore the art of finding and maintaining optimal levels of stimulation as an HSP.We discuss why getting this balance right is essential for your energy, well-being, and confidence, and how to tune into what you need in a world that often overwhelms.
A must-listen for every HSP seeking more clarity, calm, and alignment.
Learn more about Jacquelyn’s work at: jacquelynstrickland.com
Explore more at: www.wildsensitive.com
Join the Wild Sensitive Village: A soulful sanctuary for HSPs and HSP-HSSs, filled with resources, community, and inspiration. Opening September , 2025.About Annet van Duinen:
Annet is a professional coach, author, and speaker devoted to helping Highly Sensitive People discover their inner compass. With a background in personal development, and community building, she blends science with soul to empower HSPs to thrive in a fast-moving world.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/annet.vanduinen/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/annet.vanduinenLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annet-van-duinen-wild-sensitive/
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47 min - HSP’s and Relationships — Sensitive and Strong
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The Sensitive and Strong podcast, where sensitivity is a strength, and being a Wild Sensitive is a path to power, is hosted by Annet van Duinen, co-author of The Wild Sensitive, Unlocking the power of the Highly Sensitive High Sensation Seeker. This podcast is for Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) and Sensitive Sensation Seekers who are ready to live boldly, feel deeply, and lead authentically.
In each episode, you’ll find grounded insights, soulful conversations, and practical tools to help you embrace your sensitivity, elevate your emotional well-being, and connect with others who walk this path.
Ever felt unseen, misunderstood, or like you’re walking on eggshells in your relationships?
As Highly Sensitive People, we often adapt so much to our surroundings that we lose touch with who we really are. In this episode, we explore the challenges of navigating relationships, whether romantic, familial, or social, when it doesn’t feel safe to fully be ourselves.I’ll share insights on why this happens, how to recognize the patterns, and most importantly, how to reclaim your voice, your needs, and your authentic self in connection with others.
A gentle, empowering invitation to show up more fully, without shrinking who you are.
Explore more at: www.wildsensitive.com
Join the Wild Sensitive Village: A soulful sanctuary for HSPs and HSP-HSSs, filled with resources, community, and inspiration. Opening September , 2025.About Annet van Duinen:
Annet is a professional coach, author, and speaker devoted to helping Highly Sensitive People discover their inner compass. With a background in personal development, and community building, she blends science with soul to empower HSPs to thrive in a fast-moving world.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/annet.vanduinen/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/annet.vanduinen
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annet-van-duinen-wild-sensitive/
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25 min - Overwhelm — Sensitive and Strong
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Overwhelm is a part of every Highly Sensitive Person’s life, but how we handle it can change everything.
In this episode, I explore why HSPs are more prone to overwhelm and how to build the resilience needed to move through it with more ease, clarity, and self-compassion.You'll get practical tips, gentle mindset shifts, and simple strategies to help you manage overwhelm when it hits, and prevent it when possible. Whether you're in the middle of a tough moment or looking to create more spaciousness in your day-to-day life, this episode is here to support you.
🎧 Tune in and learn how to protect your energy without shrinking your life.
The Sensitive and Strong podcast, where sensitivity is a strength, and being a Wild Sensitive is a path to power, is hosted by Annet van Duinen, co-author of The Wild Sensitive, Unlocking the power of the Highly Sensitive High Sensation Seeker. This podcast is for Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) and Sensitive Sensation Seekers who are ready to live boldly, feel deeply, and lead authentically.
In each episode, you’ll find grounded insights, soulful conversations, and practical tools to help you embrace your sensitivity, elevate your emotional well-being, and connect with others who walk this path.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/annet.vanduinen/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/annet.vanduinenLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annet-van-duinen-wild-sensitive/
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35 min - A conversation with Dr. Elaine Aron — Sensitive and Strong
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A conversation with Dr. Elaine Aron on sensitivity, empowerment, confidence and how our thoughts can influence our perception of our world. ---
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About Sensitive and Strong
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Welcome to Sensitive & Strong, a podcast exploring sensitivity, sensation seeking, and what it means to live deeply, courageously, and authentically.
The podcast began…
in 2021 with Annet van Duinen, who created Sensitive & Strong as a place to explore the experience of being a Highly Sensitive Person through interviews, personal stories, research, and meaningful conversations.
Then, in episode 23, Randy Grasser joined Annet as a guest.
At the time, neither of them knew where that conversation would eventually lead.
What began as one interview grew into many more conversations, a relationship, a shared body of work, and eventually the development of Wild Sensitive, their exploration of the intersection between Sensory Processing Sensitivity and High Sensation Seeking.
Today, Sensitive & Strong brings those two paths together.
Sensitive & Strong
Hosted by Annet, and sometimes joined by Randy, these interview-style episodes feature conversations with guests who bring their own knowledge, perspectives, experiences, and stories to the world of sensitivity.
The aim is to empower sensitive people to understand sensitivity as a natural and neutral human trait. With the right skills, tools, self-awareness, and emotional regulation, sensitive people can become strong, grounded, resilient, and fully engaged with life. The goal is not to retreat from the world, but to develop the confidence and capacity to meet it.
Wild Sensitive Conversations
In Wild Sensitive Conversations, Randy and Annet sit down together for open, honest, and often unconventional discussions about what happens when deep sensitivity meets High Sensation Seeking.
This is the territory of the Wild Sensitive, the Highly Sensitive Sensation Seeker (HSP-HSS), where sensitivity intersects with curiosity, intensity, novelty, adventure, and a desire to engage deeply with life.
These conversations move beyond familiar labels and coping advice to explore relationships, identity, emotions, beliefs, personal growth, and the paradox of being both deeply sensitive and drawn toward sensation.
Sometimes they agree. Sometimes they see things differently. Sometimes one question opens the door to an entirely new way of looking at sensitivity, sensation seeking, or life itself.
One podcast. Two styles of conversation. One place to explore what it means to feel deeply and live fully.
Sensitive & Strong is hosted by Annet van Duinen, Professional Certified Coach (PCC), pioneering author, and International Consultant on High Sensitivity, trained by Dr. Elaine Aron.
Wild Sensitive Conversations is hosted by Annet together with Randy Grasser, author, professionally certified Life Guide, and co-founder of Wild Sensitive. Randy brings a grounded, adventurous, and often unconventional perspective to conversations about sensitivity, identity, emotional strength, and engaging fully with life.
Together, Annet and Randy invite you beyond old labels and limiting ideas about sensitivity and sensation seeking.
Together, they bring you the Wild Sensitive.
Learn more at:
https://wildsensitive.com
https://annetvanduinen.com
https://randygrasser.com