This is the highly sensitive person podcast, a weekly podcast for people who experience the world brighter, louder, and more intensely.

Join me on a journey of acceptance of our highly sensitive person traits.

Thanks so much for tuning in today. I'm your host, Kelly. And in this podcast, I share my

personal experiences about being a highly sensitive person. I try to share information so people can

understand more about themselves and accept themselves. And I do want to mention that I am

an introvert, so sometimes the things I talk about cross over into

introvert territory. So if you are a highly sensitive extrovert, just keep that in mind.

I received an email from a listener called Norrie 08 that I wanted to share with you. She writes,

I want to request a topic I so deeply struggle with with my highly sensitive nature. Control. More specifically

being controlling because I try to moderate overstimulation of many, many kinds. Control is also a

big reason why I'm afraid of entering into parenthood. So much control I imagine is lost there and so

much overstimulation is its replacement.

This is one of the many specific examples I struggle with.

Maybe others have been called controlling because we are trying to moderate and bear

overstimulation of different kinds for our own sanity.

Thanks so much for the email, No Rio 8, because control is a topic that I've wanted to talk about for a while, but it's such a big, big topic.

When I started documenting my personal HSP stuff on my blog, I was shocked how often the concept of control came up.

I had no idea that it was even a factor in my life until I started really thinking about it.

So many of the things that bug me are really about fearing a loss of control.

This may ring especially true for those of you who also experience anxiety and consider

yourself someone who procrastinates a lot. Also, when we hear about someone who likes having control,

we often think about the term

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