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An Introduction to Human Design for Highly Sensitive People
The Happy Highly Sensitive Life Podcast
01/20/22 • 36 min
At Happy Highly Sensitive Life, you’ve seen me cover living as an HSP from a lot of different angles. As a multi-passionate person, I'm always following my intuition to discover and explore from a variety of perspectives.
If you’re wondering what’s on the horizon for Happy Highly Sensitive Life in 2022, this space will be evolving to explore living as an HSP through the lens of Human Design.
You may be wondering why Human Design is relevant for HSPs.
I know you come here for ideas, strategies and tips for living a life of greater ease that lights you up. You’re seeking answers and solutions for your life.
And if you’re feeling stuck and you’re not sure why a strategy works for someone else, but not for you, here’s why.
You are unique and you need solutions that are personalized, not one size fits all.
That’s where Human Design comes in.
Human Design is a personality assessment tool that synthesizes the ancient systems of astrology, the Hindu Chakra System, the Chinese I Ching, and the Kabbalah with genetics, biochemistry, quantum mechanics and astronomy. Your Human Design chart is based on your birth information and creates an image of your unique personality makeup.
Human Design is especially useful for HSPs.
We often struggle with fatigue. Human Design shows you how you can tap into sustainable energy and how you’re meant to work and rest to create a life that allows you to thrive.
We often question and second-guess ourselves. Human Design shows you how to tap into your inner knowing and wisdom to make decisions that are aligned for you. And that living in alignment expands your energy.
We take in the energy of other people. I’m often asked to talk about how to set boundaries and to share strategies for living as an empath or for dealing with difficult relationships.
Human Design provides insight into how you absorb energy from others, why conflict feels magnified, and how you experience pressure that can lead you to say yes when you want to say no.
Once you know how you take in the energy of others, you can learn to work with the energy in a new and different way.
I’ll explore these subjects in depth in the new year, through the lens of Human Design.
Seeing yourself through the lens of Human Design is so confirming. And, as I’ve studied to become a Human Design practitioner, I’ve repeatedly had moments of deeply seeing myself that have allowed me to develop more self-compassion for who I am and for how my life has progressed.
I have come home to myself with a level of self-trust I’ve never known before.
As an HSP, I know first hand that questioning and second-guessing yourself can be consuming. And that’s why I want other HSPs to have a chance to learn about their Human Design.
In the latest episode of the podcast, I’m talking about how to get started with learning about your Human Design.
You will discover...
- How to run your free Human Design chart and the basic components of the chart.
- The 5 Types, their unique purpose, energy configuration, and their corresponding Strategy for navigating life in an aligned way.
- An overview of personal Authorities, and how to tap into your inner wisdom to make decisions that are aligned.
- How to get started with living by your Design.
If your intuition says it’s a fit, I hope you’ll join me for the next evolution of Happy Highly Sensitive Life and the podcast.
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The Key to Creating a Life that Lights You Up as a Highly Sensitive Person
The Happy Highly Sensitive Life Podcast
05/31/21 • 41 min
In this first episode of the Happy Highly Sensitive Life podcast, I share my experience of growing up, navigating quarter-life, and adulting as a highly sensitive person.
If you’re feeling lost or confused about the direction of your life, this episode will leave you feeling seen and more hopeful for the future.What you will learn in this episode:
- How I ended up getting a tattoo in college (and why I regret it)
- The fantasy I had about how I could escape from adulting in the midst of my quarter-life crisis
- Why and how I gave myself permission to stop working as a therapist
- My journey to find meaningful work that’s not draining
- How to move beyond the fear that other people will judge you for your decisions
- Why making pros and cons lists won’t help you make decisions that make you happy, and what to do instead
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Links + Resources Mentioned in this Episode
The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You book by Dr. Elaine Aron, PhD
Take The Highly Sensitive Person Quiz by Dr. Elaine Aron, PhD
How to Cope with Your Feelings as a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)
The Happy Highly Sensitive Life Podcast
09/16/21 • 26 min
As HSPs, we are big-hearted people. For many of us, our parents, family, teachers and coaches didn’t know what to make of our strong feeling nature.
To get by, I learned to push down my emotions. Bypassing my feelings worked until I entered a more complicated phase of life and had to deal with roommates, serious relationships and a full-time job.
I was often a big jumble of emotions, not sure how I felt. And when I knew what I felt, I didn’t know if I had a right to say it. Worried that I would appear needy or high maintenance, I pulled away until my feelings just blew over and I got over it. But the problems kept festering under the surface with no real resolution, so they kept coming up repeatedly.
Looking back, the first thing I needed was a way to make sense of my feelings. And no matter how much progress I’ve made with learning to be with my feelings, from time to time I’m still not sure what’s happening with me emotionally.
If you can relate and you’re not sure how to make sense of what you’re feeling and how to handle big emotions, then the latest episode is for you.
In this episode, you will learn...
- Why emotions have been mislabeled as a liability by our culture
- How emotions can give you an advantage
- Why it’s hard to know what you’re feeling as an HSP
- 7 ways to cope with your feelings
- One daily practice that will give you an edge for coping with feelings
This episode will give you tools to handle big emotions and tap into your own resilience.
If you have a question for me about something you hear on this podcast or want to suggest a topic for a future episode, email me at [email protected].
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Links + Resources Mentioned in this Episode
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Joy of Movement by Kelly McGonigal
Episode 3, How to Cope with Intense Situations as a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)
Why You May Be Tired as an HSP and What To Do About It
The Happy Highly Sensitive Life Podcast
09/30/21 • 27 min
My first radical act of listening to my body came in grade school. I pretended to be sick so I could stay home from school for the day.
Now looking back on it, I can see I was a wiped out HSP who needed a break. The world said I needed to go, but I knew I needed to stop.
As adults, our work, school and family obligations are a lot more complicated and you may feel like the idea of taking a day off because you’re wiped out is just as bold as playing hooky as a 7-year-old.
There’s huge pressure to be hustling 100 miles an hour.
But as a highly sensitive person, when I’m bypassing my body’s fatigue, I’m absent-minded, easily overstimulated, noise sensitive and jumpy.
My sugar cravings go up since lacking energy can show up as sugar cravings. And eating sugar is more likely to lead to a blood sugar crash later, which makes me hangry and even more easily overstimulated.
I’m definitely the HSP that can’t drink caffeine to compensate for my low energy, although back in the day, I tried drinking green tea as a pick me up. But that left me anxious, jittery and more jumpy and also kept me from getting a good night’s sleep.
In this episode, I’m sharing some strategies you can build into your everyday life so you have a bit more space for rest.
And I’m also here to nudge you to think outside the norm about how you can set up your life so that you can enjoy your days more.
In the latest episode, you will learn...
- 5 things that can drain HSPs of energy
- 6 breaks to consider adding to your life and day
- 3 gentle ways to uplevel your food choices to support energy during your day, including a doable way to eat less sugar
- How to build an aligned life to counteract burnout
I hope that this episode will give you permission to pause and recharge and release the pressure to be on the go constantly.
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Links + Resources Mentioned in this Episode
Free Myers-Briggs-based personality test at 16personalities.com
Run a free Human Design Chart at GeneticMatrix.com using your birth date, time, country, city and state.
Focus-To-Do App Pomodoro Timer & To Do List
Episode 3, How to Cope with Intense Situations as a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)
Exhaustion, Hustle + Burnout: What Human Design Can Teach HSPs About Fatigue
The Happy Highly Sensitive Life Podcast
02/17/22 • 23 min
As highly sensitive people, we push ourselves hard to...
- Show up for other people even if we’re worn out.
- Be good partners, parents, employees, daughters and sons.
- Get things done even when we really need to rest
- Get out of our comfort zones to try new things.
We’re super conscientious, wanting to give our best to everyone and everything. To not let people down, even if it means sacrificing ourselves.
Exhaustion and burnout are signs something needs to give.
The messages about needing to hustle to “live the good life” have us all mixed up.
But Human Design shows us how to get back on track and how physical energy is activated.
We each have our own unique configuration for generating energy.
In this episode, you will learn...
- What the 4 Human Design motor centers show us about physical energy and energy management
- What’s really occurring if you’re constantly feeling pressured by your to-do list and why you never feel like you get it all done
- The surprising thing Human Design shows us about willpower
- How living in alignment is key to tapping into energy
- How, if you have open motor centers, your perceptions of your energy and what you can accomplish may depend on who you’re around
- How to sustainably incorporate exercise and sleep into your life
We receive so much conditioning and so many messages about how we should live hard and play hard. We see how people around us race through life, rushing from one thing to the next, surviving on caffeine and skimping on sleep and we think that’s how we should manage our energy too.
My hope is that this information will give you a new understanding of yourself and your energy. And give you permission to create a life that gives you the space and time to rest and restore in the right way for you.
Links + Resources Mentioned in this Episode
Learn about The Aligned Job Short Course for HSPs
Episode 10, An Introduction to Human Design for Highly Sensitive People
Episode 11, Got Empath Overload? What Human Design Shows You About Being an Empath + How to Cope
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If you have a question for me about something you hear on this podcast or want to suggest a topic for a future episode, email me at [email protected]
How Marya + Adam Navigate Their HSP & Empath Marriage
The Happy Highly Sensitive Life Podcast
10/14/21 • 40 min
If you’re an HSP, an empath or someone who loves an HSP or empath, and you’re looking to understand your relationship better, this episode is for you and your partner.
For the very first time, my spouse, Adam, is joining me on the show! During the pandemic, I unexpectedly discovered that he is an empath who strongly feels the emotions of other people. We talk about how I made this discovery and how it gives Adam many strengths and also contributes to perfectionism and people-pleasing that leaves him worn out.
We talk about what Adam discovered when he took Elaine Aaron’s HSP quiz for the first time and how his results differ from mine. And about how my HSP overstimulation shows up during long family events and means I need time alone, and how in my urgency to get time by myself, I’m very much not a people pleaser.
Adam talks about how he makes sense of my HSP overstimulation and I talk about my perspective on Adam’s people-pleasing and how I’m learning to be patient with his perfectionism.
This episode is inspired by questions from you, the listeners, about being in a relationship with an HSP and empath.
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If you liked this episode, please rate and review The Happy Highly Sensitive Life Podcast on Apple Podcasts. This helps other HSPs find the show.
To receive automatic updates, subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts. Or subscribe to my email newsletter to receive regular news from me and notification when a new episode goes live.
Connect with Me
Continue the conversation on Instagram.
Visit Happy Highly Sensitive Life to read my writing.
Subscribe to my email newsletter to receive regular news from me and notification when a new episode goes live.
Links + Resources Mentioned in this Episode
Free Myers-Briggs-based personality test at 16personalities.com
Run a free Human Design Chart at GeneticMatrix.com using your birth date, time, country, city and state.
Take The Highly Sensitive Person Quiz by Dr. Elaine Aron, PhD
How to Really Rest as a Highly Sensitive Person + What Human Design Says About Rest
The Happy Highly Sensitive Life Podcast
03/31/22 • 28 min
How restful are your weekends?
Do you wake up on Saturday mornings planning to do your chores and errands first to get them over with, and then, before you know it, you get to Sunday and you realize you never stopped doing tasks?
On Sunday night, you feel tense about starting a new week because you had zero time to rest and recharge.
I have been there.
Then, learning about Human Design, I discovered that the body’s most powerful energy motor, the Sacral Center, turns on in response to opportunities that light you up. And I started to rethink how I use my free time for rest, switching up my priorities to focus on doing what feels good and restorative first, before doing anything else.
We live in an anti-rest culture and are conditioned to pack our days full and to be productive 7 days of the week.
But the good news is that there’s a cultural pushback occurring. People are talking more and more about creating an anti-hustle culture. One that prioritizes well-being, really resting, and having more by doing less.
This is a movement that is good for empathic highly sensitive people, giving more acceptance to the notion that resting doesn’t mean weakness or laziness, but is instead an act of care and self-love, and an expression of how you value yourself and your physical and emotional health.
And so in the latest episode of the podcast, I’m talking all about rest. You will learn...
- What Human Design teaches us about energy and rest
- How I define rest
- 6 signs you need to rest
- Why it’s essential to prioritize real rest to remain vital, especially right now
- 2 types of rest and why you may need both
- 25 ideas for resting
I hope this episode will give you a nudge to rest in a way that works for you.
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Links + Resources Mentioned in this Episode
Episode 3, How to Cope with Intense Situations as a Highly Sensitive Person
Episode 4, How to Cope with your Feelings as a Highly Sensitive Person
Episode 10, An Introduction to Human Design for Highly Sensitive People
Episode 11, Got Empath Overload? What Human Design Shows You About Being an Empath + How to Cope
Episode 12, Exhaustion, Hustle + Burnout: What Human Design Can Teach HSPs About Fatigue
Grab my free guide to getting started with Human Design for HSPs
Grab a 50-page written guide to your unique Human Design. Receive a downloadable custom blueprint to guide you as you begin to incorporate the principles of Human Design in your life, based on your unique Human Design Chart. I custom create each guide.
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Working as an HSP: 5 Things I Wish I Knew at the Start of My Career
The Happy Highly Sensitive Life Podcast
03/17/22 • 24 min
Are you happy at work?
Work has always felt like an important part of who I am. But, I’ve also felt like a mismatch for the world of work in terms of how it left me depleted.
Perhaps you’ve felt this way too?
If you’re an empathetic person, the work that expands your energy may also contract and drain your energy.
Even work environments that say self-care is important for employees, have workplace norms that make it more difficult to get what you need.
Knowing that, in this episode, I'm sharing 5 things I wish I’d known as an HSP when I first started working.
And, how accepting that I felt “different” gave me permission to find the freedom to think differently about what I needed from work.
Also, for the first time, I share why I felt so turned upside down by working as a therapist.
I hope that this episode will give you permission to craft your work in a way that works for you. And that the resources I mention will help you care for yourself amid a busy work life.
Links + Resources Mentioned in this Episode
Episode 3, How to Cope with Intense Situations as a Highly Sensitive Person
Episode 4, How to Cope with your Feelings as a Highly Sensitive Person
Episode 11, Got Empath Overload? What Human Design Shows You About Being an Empath + How to Cope
Join The Aligned Job Short Course for HSPs. Until March 31st, use promo code SPRINGBREAK to take $10 off and join the class for just $38.
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How to Live in Alignment with Your True Self as a Highly Sensitive Person
The Happy Highly Sensitive Life Podcast
01/06/22 • 27 min
I used to lose myself in my relationships.
When I was in my 20s. I’d become quiet and censor myself around other people. I held back from saying what I thought. I tried to blend in and become a matching replica of the people around me because I felt different - like an old soul.
At some point, I noticed I was shrinking down. And holding back from being my true self.
Once I noticed it, I set out to live with greater congruence and authenticity. And since then, year after year, there’s one word that captures my intention for how I want to live, and that word is “alignment”.
As HSPs, it’s not hard to get disconnected from yourself. As energy readers, we absorb and feel influenced or pressured by the energy around us. By the fast decision makers, the fast movers, the seemingly fearless ones. We see how other people operate and think we’re supposed to operate in the world like them.
We feel the pressure to feel less, to act quickly, to be extroverted, or super social, and to adopt a live hard, play hard lifestyle. It’s easy to think we need to live the way we see other people living. Maybe we’ve even been told we need to toughen up and be less sensitive.
I used to think I wasn’t assertive enough and that I was too much of a people pleaser. I just needed to stand my ground more and be stronger and then I wouldn’t lose myself in relationships.
But I’ve shifted my understanding of this dynamic with the help of a tool that explains why I become a mirror of the people around me. And gives insight about what to do about it.
So in this episode, you will learn:
- What it means to live in alignment
- How it causes daily distress to live out of alignment
- Two qualities to embody that can help you live in alignment
- One tool that can help you understand why and how you take in the energy of other people so you can notice when it happens and stay centered in yourself
If you’re an empath or think of yourself as a people pleaser, this episode will give you a new perspective about how you absorb the energy of others, and what you can do to stay centered in yourself. I hope that it will help you view yourself with compassion, release self-judgment, and feel good being yourself.
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If you have a question for me about something you hear on this podcast or want to suggest a topic for a future episode, email me at [email protected].
Links + Resources Mentioned in this Episode
Run a free Human Design Chart at Genetic Matrix
Grab my free guide to getting started with Human Design for HSPs.
Visit the Show Notes
How to Survive a Social Gathering as a Highly Sensitive Person
The Happy Highly Sensitive Life Podcast
11/11/21 • 27 min
If you’re a highly sensitive person, then you know that socializing isn’t always an easy-breezy low-stress thing.
Because you’re a deep processor, when you’re in a group social setting, there’s a lot to tune into that can feel chaotic and overstimulating. Especially if you're in a new environment around new people.
Moving into a new social situation, going to holiday gatherings, parties, or weddings, requires a survival plan going in.
When I am going to a get-together, I approach socializing like running a marathon. You wouldn’t go into a 26-mile race or a party without a solid plan to make it through.
When I was in college, I survived social situations by drinking. But several years ago, I pretty much stopped drinking, even at parties. I hated how it made me feel the next day, and a single drink turned me into a quiet ghost in the corner. That was the opposite of the effect I was going for.
Without alcohol, I was anxious and felt like I was walking into a function naked. Unexpectedly, because alcohol wasn’t clouding my powers of observation, I learned a few things about how to survive and have more fun at social gatherings.
In this episode, I’m sharing what I learned that you can use to make it through a social gathering, whether or not you’re drinking.
In the last podcast episode of this year, you will learn...
- How to physically and mentally prepare to socialize
- What to do if you regret saying yes to an invitation at the 11th hour
- How to feel more confident and practice mindful socializing
- After a night out, what you can do to stop beating yourself up for something you said or did
I want you to have tips and strategies going into the holiday season to enjoy the events that you decide to attend. And also to give yourself permission to do only what feels aligned and lights you up.
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If you have a question for me about something you hear on this podcast or want to suggest a topic for a future episode, email me at [email protected].
Links + Resources Mentioned in this Episode
How to Cope with Intense Situations, Episode 3, The Happy Highly Sensitive Life Podcast
How to Cope with Your Feelings as a Highly Sensitive Person, Episode 4, The The Happy Highly Sensitive Life Podcast
This Science-Backed Mantra Will Help You Shine Under Pressure When All Eyes are on You
The Willpower Instinct by Dr. Kelly McGonigal
How to Have a Good Day by Caroline Webb
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