10: Animals & HSPs
The Highly Sensitive Person Podcast
Kelly
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2014
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
I got a dog about 6 months ago--it's the first time I've ever cared for an animal in my life. It's been a fulfilling and fun experience.
In Episode 10 of the Highly Sensitive Person Podcast, I talk about how HSPs can have deep connections to animals due to our empathy and ability to pick up on non-verbal signals.
Resources mentioned in the podcast: This post by Dr. Elaine Aron about what HSPs can get from animals.
Related Posts on HighlySensitivePerson.net:
- Could I handle having a dog?
- Follow-Up: My First Experience Taking Care of a Dog
- Anger is an emotion, too (about getting angry at my dog)
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| 0:00.0 | This is the highly sensitive person podcast, a weekly podcast for people who experience the world brighter, louder, and more intensely. |
| 0:13.0 | Join me on a journey of acceptance of our highly sensitive traits. |
| 0:18.7 | Hey everyone, happy Tuesday. This is episode 10 of the highly sensitive person podcast, |
| 0:24.5 | and I'm your host, Kelly. Thanks so much to those of you who have left reviews on iTunes |
| 0:31.5 | for this podcast. I really appreciate it. Listeners like LFG 1986 who said, this podcast changed my life. I never heard the term |
| 0:41.6 | highly sensitive person before. And putting a name to something I've been dealing with all my life |
| 0:46.3 | and understanding what it means was like a wave of clarity washing over me. I have to admit |
| 0:52.2 | when I read reviews like this one sometimes my eyes well up just a tiny |
| 0:56.1 | little bit because they're so nice and they mean so much to me because that's exactly what I'm |
| 1:01.5 | trying to accomplish with this podcast is to help other people learn about high sensitivity |
| 1:06.0 | and learn to accept themselves and feel a little bit better about how you are. |
| 1:14.1 | That's what happened to me when I learned about high sensitivity is it made me feel a lot better about myself and be more accepting and improve my relationships and so many other things. |
| 1:19.8 | Speaking of positive reviews, the other day my husband came up to me after listening to one |
| 1:25.3 | of my episodes and he said, I have some feedback about your |
| 1:29.3 | last episode. Do you want to hear it? And I could tell he was hesitating because he had something |
| 1:34.3 | negative to say and he didn't want to hurt my feelings. So I said, of course I want to hear it, |
| 1:38.5 | but can you tell me in a compliment sandwich? Complement sandwich, if you've never heard of it, |
| 1:43.4 | is a way to give someone feedback or |
| 1:45.8 | critical analysis without hurting their feelings so much. And what you do is you give them a compliment, |
| 1:52.8 | then you say the negative thing, and then you give another compliment. Hence compliment sandwich. |
| 1:59.0 | And I'm going to use the concept of a compliment sandwich with these next |
| 2:02.2 | three episodes because I want to do an episode that I fear is going to be so negative and I'm very |
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