The Happy Highly Sensitive Life Podcast

There have been times in my life that I’ve felt different, like I didn’t fit in and I wasn’t sure why. Until I learned about the trait of high sensitivity, I just chalked it up to being an introvert in an extroverted world.
I didn’t know that my sensitivity was impacting how I was experiencing my life. And so in this episode, I talk about what high sensitivity is, and how it shows up in real life.
I deeply believe that when you’re aware of how sensitivity impacts you, you can give yourself permission to set up your life so it honors you. So you experience greater ease, happiness and satisfaction.
What you will learn in this episode:

• What is high sensitivity?
• The 4 qualities all HSPs share
• The many strengths that come with being highly sensitive
• Introverted and extroverted HSPs
• What it means to be a High Sensation Seeking HSP (HSS HSP)
• Why following your heart is essential as an HSP
• How to begin to set up your workday & home life to honor this trait
• How to give yourself permission to arrange your life to work for you

This is essential listening if you’ve recently learned you're an HSP or you're looking to more deeply understand how being an HSP impacts your life.
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Links + Resources Mentioned in this Episode
Episode 1 of The Happy Highly Sensitive Life Podcast, The Key to Creating a Life that Lights You Up as a Highly Sensitive Person
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
Take The High Sensation Seeking HSP Self-test by Dr. Elaine Aron, PhD

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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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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One of the traits of being an HSP is being empathetic. And it’s always struck me that empathy shows up differently in different people. And in varying degrees. My way of experiencing empathy may feel different than yours.

When I discovered Human Design, I finally had a framework for understanding how we empathically experience other people. I knew the information I’m sharing in this podcast episode could lead to profound self-understanding for HSPs and empaths.

When you know and understand how your empathic transmissions occur, you can lean into the strengths that come with them and use mindful awareness to reduce the emotional toll that comes from experiencing others so strongly.

This episode is inspired by the questions I’ve received from HSPs. You are living and working led by your big caring hearts. On one hand, it feels so meaningful and important and is such an honor to understand others so deeply through your empathy. And on the other hand, taking in the energy of other people can make your own emotional load feel heavier and heavier. You may feel the quality of your own life evaporating.

So in the latest podcast episode, you will discover:

• The 4 Centers in Human Design where you most powerfully take in the energy of others.
• The Center that’s responsible for analysis paralysis that also shows you how to move past it.
• Strategies for reducing the emotional toll of being an empath.
• Why I abandoned my Instagram account.
• Why decisions are not meant to be made with your mind and what to do instead to tap into your inner knowing.

My goal is always to share information that will empower you and help you see new possibilities for living a life of greater ease that lights you up, and my hope is that this information will begin to do just that.

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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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Have a question you'd like answered on the podcast? Email me at [email protected].
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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)