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Interviews, audio versions of articles, excerpts from podcasts from psychologists, artists and others on thriving as an artist, creativity research, high sensitivity, emotional health and more. From the Creative Mind series of sites by Douglas Eby.
Short episodes with interviews and other audio material from psychologists, therapists, artists on topics related to developing creativity, being highly sensitive, improving emotional health and more. Also see episodes at https://thecreativemind.net/the-creative-mind-audio-podcast/
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Being an empath or highly sensitive person with Julie Bjelland and Judith Orloff
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Julie Bjelland is a psychotherapist and author specializing in high sensitivity. This is a brief excerpt from an episode of her HSP Podcast in which she interviews psychiatrist and empath Judith Orloff. Topics in the full interview include: What is an empath and what are the neuroscience findings explaining the empath experience? What is the differ…
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How Training Can Help You Thrive with a Highly Sensitive Nervous System
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"It makes a big difference in your life when you learn how to balance your sensitive nervous system." High sensitivity therapist and author Julie Bjelland notes : "You don't have to suffer so much in the world. I used to be somebody that suffered a lot with anxiety and depression and just overwhelm and feeling like I couldn't do everything that nee…
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How to Manage Our Energy, Negative Thoughts, and Overprocessing as HSPs
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Julie Bjelland is a psychotherapist specializing in high sensitivity, and author of many resources to help highly sensitive people (HSPs) worldwide. In this excerpt of one of her podcast episodes, she is joined by Willow McIntosh, the founder of Inluminance and leader of the High Sensory Intelligence movement. In her Show Notes, Julie Bjelland writ…
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Most people experience some trauma - Therapist Crystle Lampitt
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Crystle Lampitt is a mental health therapist and trauma specialist. The first part of this audio is from her video presentation "The myth of self-sabotage" for the Trauma Super Conference. The second audio is from her TED Talk "Sad, Sick, and Stuck: Rethinking Mental Health." Lampitt notes most people are likely to experience some type of trauma in…
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How to manage low energy, negative thoughts, and overprocessing as HSPs with Willow and Julie
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The human mind is wired to look out for us which can often mean thinking worst-case scenarios and a negative view of things. It takes conscious effort to maintain a positive outlook for us all, which of course is not always easy. As HSPs we sometimes have a tendency to turn our powerful cognitive processing ability in on ourselves. When this is cou…
Author Elizabeth Gilbert (“Eat, Pray, Love” and “Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear”) is one of the speakers at the Self-Acceptance Summit produced by Sounds True. Host Tami Simon: Let’s start right with self-acceptance as a topic that you care about – why is this an important topic to you personally Elizabeth Gilbert: Well, I mean I’ve kind of…
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Emotional Wounding and Supporting Ourselves as a Highly Sensitive Person
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Julie Bjelland, a psychotherapist and author specializing in helping Highly Sensitive People, notes "life can hit us with a bunch of emotional wounds or hard times - all impacting both our physical and mental health." Here is an excerpt of the notes about her HSP Podcast episode: Episode 149: Emotional Wounding Support During Hard Times with Julie …
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Emotional Wounding Support During Hard Times with Julie & Willow
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HSPs high on my Sensitivity Scale tend to absorb the world's pain. Plus life can hit us with a bunch of emotional wounds or hard times all at impacting both our physical and mental health. Examples of Emotional Wounding… Painful world events and images seen on the news Social media, discrimination, hatred… Death or pain of loved ones including anim…
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Perspectives on Trauma - Evan Rachel Wood and Sia
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Actor and activist Evan Rachel Wood speaks with Trevor Noah on The Daily Show about surviving trauma and speaking out. Singer, songwriter, voice actress and director Sia (Sia Furler) talks with Dr. Gabor Maté for the Talks on Trauma interviews. See related article for more comments by artists and psychologists, videos, plus links to resources to re…
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Discovering You Have an Environmental Sensitivity - Managing Overwhelm and Important Decisions with Andrea Weber
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Realizing you have environmental sensitivities to things like chemicals, EMFs or mold can be overwhelming. Many people don't know much about these sensitivities, what to do, where to go for help or how to explain what's happening and this can lead to additional stress and emotional burden on top of what is already being experienced with physical sy…
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"I need my stress to achieve." - No, "Stress makes you stupid.” Emily Fletcher of Ziva Meditation
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Emily Fletcher – founder of Ziva Meditation – notes “Stress is actually keeping you from performing at the top of your game. “I tend to work with a lot of high performers. “My CEO clients will say ‘Emily, my stress is the thing that gives me my cutting edge, that’s the thing that keeps me, you know, competitive and in the game’ – and my actors will…
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How to Believe and Trust in Ourselves as a Highly Sensitive Person
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Healthy self-confidence can be an issue for anyone, of course, but may be especially challenging for us as a highly sensitive person. Here are excerpts from the Show Notes for the original podcast episode with Julie Bjelland and Willow McIntosh: We often hear how important it is that we believe in ourselves, yet what if we are struggling to make so…
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Creative People, Insecurity and Gaining Confidence
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Do feelings of insecurity and self-doubt impact our creativity? Of course. In this audio and the related article, artists and psychologists express perspectives on our common feelings of insecurity and self-doubt – and how to improve our confidence. Actor Annette Bening thinks we benefit from some insecurity. In a video interview, actor Jessica Cha…
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Believing and trusting in ourselves as HSPs with Willow and Julie
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We often hear how important it is that we believe in ourselves, yet what if we are struggling to make something happen? It is all too easy to slip into self-doubt and a spiral of negative beliefs. One of the greatest resources we have as HSPs is our commitment to our growth and development. Also, our tenacity to pursue our personal evolution and wh…
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Six kinds of sensitivity and overwhelm with Dr. Natasha Fallahi
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Dr. Natasha Fallahi is a mind-body health expert and functional medicine practitioner. Based on her years of research and personal experience, she notes there are 6 Sensitivity Types — mental, emotional, physical, chemical, social, and energetic. Also, 5 health issues that indicate you might be a Highly Sensitive Person: Chronic fatigue, Overstimul…
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High Ability Adults and Anxiety - P. Susan Jackson
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How Can High Ability Adults Understand and Ameliorate Their Anxiety? "Exceptionally bright human beings are infinitely more than the sum of their complex intellects and remarkable talents." From description on a page for the Let’s Talk 2e Adult Conference, for the presentation "The Role of Anxiety in the Lives of Gifted Adults: Origins, Manifestati…
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Hierarchy of Needs and 2e Gifted Adults with Scott Barry Kaufman
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The Let’s Talk 2e Adult Conference hosted by Julie Skolnick was an online event with presentations by 16+ experts “sharing powerful strategies on everything from dating to self-advocacy.” In this short clip from the full presentation (about 1 hour) Julie Skolnick introduces psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman for his talk "The New Hierarchy of Needs a…
Susan K. Perry, Ph.D. is author of the books “Loving In Flow,” the Los Angeles Times Bestseller “Writing In Flow,” other nonfiction books, many articles and essays, and a novel. She is also a social psychologist with expertise in relationships, and is a writing consultant and online instructor. This is an excerpt from our much longer interview: Sus…
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Imi Lo conversation with Douglas Eby on Sensitive, Intense, Creative People
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Imi Lo works with emotionally intense and highly sensitive people, and is the author of books Emotional Sensitivity and Intensity, and The Gift of Intensity: How to Win at Life and Love as a Highly Sensitive and Emotionally Intense Person. Imi is the founder of Eggshell Therapy and Coaching, working with intense people from around the world. Listen…
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Our Overly Activated Emotional Brain as a Highly Sensitive Person
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“Highly Sensitive People have particular brain differences that make us more susceptible to high stress, overwhelm and even anxiety. “Thankfully there is a way to train your HSP brain so you can live your fullest life.” Sensitivity expert Julie Bjelland, LMFT adds, “What’s important to understand is…think of it as having two parts of your brain: th…
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Redefining Masculinity. How the HSP and LGBTQ+ Community Can Influence and Lead us With William Allen. Hosted by Willow McIntosh
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William writes...“On many occasions, Dr. Elaine Aron has written that Highly Sensitive People were designed by nature to perform an evolutionary function. We are the wise counselors, the cautious advisors, and the thoughtful and empathetic souls who aid the human race. We are at an important juncture in human history. A form of exploitative and dom…
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Wild animals may recover from stress better than humans do. Why?
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This is a short excerpt from a free video: Why Your “Survival Brain” Knows How to Face Trauma and Heal. [Follow link to register and listen to the full video.] Producer Sounds True summarizes: "In this free video session, you'll learn about: * A Closer Look at the “Fight-Flight-Freeze” Response - Why animals in the wild experience traumatic events …
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Halle Berry on Trauma and Healing and Women Fighters
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Halle Berry comments about her movie ‘Bruised' and how it relates to abuse and trauma: "It viscerally impacts me. I’ve seen this. I grew up with a very abusive father who was alcoholic, very much like our Desi character. I know that man. That could have been my father or my uncles. "But what I also know about these people is they’re not bad people.…
Topics in our interview include * the use of mood-altering substances, esp. marijuana and alcohol, by writers and other artists * the genius myth stereotype * how the idea of a creative muse impacts creative self-direction * how positive and negative moods relate to creative thinking James C. Kaufman, PhD is a Professor of Educational Psychology at…
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Meditation for the Sensitive: you are wonderful as you are
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Do you know how special you are as a sensitive person? You are valuable and wonderful, just as you are. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/julie-bjelland/message
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Trauma Healing and Not Being a Prisoner to Our Nervous System
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Dr. Jeffrey Rutstein is a clinical psychologist, and an expert in the treatment of trauma. This is a brief excerpt from an hour long podcast interview with Tami Simon, founder of Sounds True. Dr. Rutstein talks about how being in a "state" impacts creative thinking and emotional health and life in general. Hear the full interview and see excerpt vi…
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How to Live With Pressure in an Arts Career
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When you follow your passions into an arts career, you can find many creative and emotional satisfactions, even financial rewards, but artists also experience unique challenges and pressures. “Actresses are made to feel entirely dependent in order to do the work they love.” Actor, Director Olivia Wilde “I slowly started to fall into pressure, but I…
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Judith Orloff, MD on Transforming Strong Emotions
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Judith Orloff MD is a NY Times bestselling author of multiple books, and is "a psychiatrist, an empath and intuitive healer, and is on the UCLA Psychiatric Clinical Faculty. "She synthesizes the pearls of traditional medicine with cutting edge knowledge of intuition, energy, and spirituality and passionately believes in the power of integrating thi…
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Melora Hardin on Being Creative and Multitalented
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Melora Hardin has wide-ranging passions as an artist, including acting, directing, dancing, writing and singing. She says of her multiple talents: “I’m always very very keen to keep my eyes and heart and ears open to opportunities to be creative. “That’s really my reason for being on this Earth, is to find more and more opportunities to be creative…
This is a brief audio excerpt from a much longer video class by Julie Bjelland - Register free for Sensory Overload & The Highly Sensitive Person. Also see article with a related podcast episode "HSPs & Sensory Overload" plus videos and more: How to Live Better With Sensory Overload as a Highly Sensitive Person. Support the show (https://thecreativ…
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Psychologist Cheryl Arutt on Emotional Health and Creative People
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“Creating art has always been a way to channel emotional intensity…” Psychologist Cheryl Arutt Dr. Arutt thinks that actors and other artists who are willing, in their creative work, to delve into the really “messy” feelings of being human (shame, devastations, disappointments, betrayals, traumas and more), probably have a relationship with those f…
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How Can Highly Sensitive People Manage Anxiety?
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"Imagine there is a motor inside you. Most people whose motor is too fast experience feelings of anxiety." - Sensitivity expert Julie Bjelland. One of her free Masterclasses: Highly Sensitive People and Anxiety. See much more in article - How to Relieve Stress and Anxiety When You’re a Highly Sensitive Person. Support the show (https://thecreativem…
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Exploring our Shadow Self with Caroline Myss
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"Think of the shadow as the parts of yourself that you don't know much about, that circumstances in life activate so that you can find out a lot about...the shadow is neither good nor bad." * Why is it so important to understand your Shadow’s contents?" * How can the Shadow can also manifest as a protector? This audio is from a free 3-part video se…
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Redeeming Our Inner Demons - An interview with psychologist Stephen Diamond
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Dr. Diamond talks about some of the shadow emotions and thinking we may have learned to disown or bury, which can interfere with our creative lives. See much more on this topic in article Make friends with our shadow self to be more creative. Support the show (https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=4G29Z9ADZN26W)…
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Psychology, neuroscience and Creativity with Shelley Carson, PhD
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Listen to full-length interview, plus see videos and much more, in article Shelley Carson on enhancing our creative brain. > NOTE: this is a Private article for subscribers - follow link to learn more about memberships. Support the show (https://thecreativemind.net/the-creative-mind-community/)By Douglas Eby
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Do you feel in resistance to yourself as an HSP?
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As HSPs we can often feel like we are in constant battle with ourselves internally. Almost like interference with our own energy and well-being. Whilst this sounds counterintuitive to our own happiness we can often be unaware of how much we are doing it. The cause of this is often as a result of feeling we needed to hide our true feelings as childr…
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Growing a Heart-Centered Online Business - Intro to free class
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"So many gifted HSP healers are struggling financially and yet the potential for financial freedom in a heart-centered online business is big right now. "I want to teach you what I did and provide you resources that can help you grow a business that you love, that helps people, and that gives you financial freedom." - Sensitivity expert and entrepr…
Our self-concept, positive self-regard and simply confidence, are key influences on how fully we realize our talents and live our lives. What can we do to nurture healthy self-esteem, self-appreciation, self-compassion? Therapist, author and speaker Marisa Peer finds “One of the biggest and most common issues people face is the belief that they are…
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Strategies to Reduce Anxiety for Highly Sensitive People
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Why are we more vulnerable to anxiety as a highly sensitive person? Sensitivity expert Julie Bjelland explains, “Anxiety or high stress is actually pretty common for highly sensitive people. “Much of it has to do with an overloaded sensitive nervous system.” “When the nervous system doesn’t get time to turn off, even away from someone’s energy in t…
"What is the definition of the Shadow? Why is it so important to understand your Shadow’s contents?" This audio is from a free series by Sounds True, from video 1: The Sacred Path of the Shadow with Caroline Myss.
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Simple Self-Care for Sensitive Souls, part of the Empaths, Sensitives & Intuitives Summit
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This interview is part of the Empaths, Sensitives & Intuitives Summit a free online event. For more information, and to register free, click here. This recording is a copyright of The Shift Network. All rights reserved. The modern world is often overwhelming and stressful for those with sensitive nervous systems. You often suffer from the challenge…
I invite you on my camping trip to meditate with me in the woods, with a campfire, next to a creek. You'll hear different sounds of nature and the outdoors. I hope it helps you feel relaxed and at peace, the same way I did in nature. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/julie-bjelland/message…
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Julie Bjelland on challenges and self-care for highly sensitive people
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Melissa Schwartz interviews Julie Bjelland, LMFT. Learn more about the program in article The Empaths, Sensitives and Intuitives Summit.
This audio is from the much longer video conversation in a Summit - learn more in article The Empaths, Sensitives and Intuitives Summit.
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Wendy De Rosa on early boundaries and survival
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See more in article The Empaths, Sensitives and Intuitives Summit.
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How to Reduce Anxiety as a Highly Sensitive Person
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“Anxiety or high stress is actually pretty common for highly sensitive people. Much of it has to do with an overloaded sensitive nervous system.” Learn more in article How Highly Sensitive People can deal with anxiety – a free Masterclass.
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Living Better With Sensory Overload as a Highly Sensitive Person
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"Sensory overload is when our senses take in more information than our brain can keep up with processing." Sensitivity therapist and author Julie Bjelland adds that as highly sensitive people, "We take in more data than the majority." Hear full podcast, see videos, and read about what causes overload and suggestions for managing it, in How to Live …
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Do you have guilt or shame around being sensitive? A discussion with Julie and Willow
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Guilt and shame tend to be a big problem for HSPs. For the purposes of this episode, we are going to discuss this in relation to the trait of high sensitivity. Guilt Culprits: We often try to please people. We don’t want to experience their disappointment. We try to do the right thing. We might feel guilty for setting boundaries, taking alone time,…
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Let's Talk 2e Adult Conference - intro by Julie Skolnick
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This Conference hosted by Julie Skolnick is an online event with recordings of presentations by 16+ experts on being a gifted and twice exceptional adult. Learn more in article "How To Thrive More as a Gifted Adult - the Let’s Talk 2e Adult Conference" https://highability.org/7639/
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Thriving With a Highly Sensitive Nervous System
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“Highly Sensitive People have particular brain differences that make us more susceptible to high stress, overwhelm and even anxiety." Sensitivity expert and author Julie Bjelland, LMFT adds, “Thankfully there is a way to train your HSP brain so you can live your fullest life.” See more in article How Can Brain Training Help Highly Sensitive People …
