174 // Building Strong Friendships as a Highly Sensitive Person
The Mindful Kind
Rachael Kable
4.6 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2019
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Hello and welcome to episode 174 of The Mindful Kind podcast!
In this episode, I've shared my thoughts and advice on creating strong friendships as a highly sensitive person.
Here are my top 4 tips:
- Nurture friendships with kind-hearted, open-minded and compassionate people
- Put boundaries in place to protect your emotions
- Join online workshops and courses to find like-minded people
- Be a little bit reserved at the start of a friendship
I also answered these two questions:
How can you support someone while protecting your own emotions?
How can you tell when someone is taking advantage of your giving nature?
Thank you to Olivia for inspiring this episode!
Thank you so much for listening and I hope you have a wonderful week, Mindful Kind.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome to the mindful kind. |
| 0:07.5 | I'm your host, Rachel Cable, and I'm here to share insights into my mindfulness journey |
| 0:12.3 | and inspire you to create your own. |
| 0:14.9 | Each week, this podcast will bring fresh and exciting news about mindfulness, |
| 0:19.7 | from my personal experiences to useful tools and different |
| 0:23.6 | mindful techniques. |
| 0:31.8 | Hello and welcome to episode 174 of the Mindful Kind podcast. |
| 0:41.1 | In this episode of The Mindful Kind, I would like to talk about finding like-minded people and creating meaningful friendships, especially as a highly sensitive |
| 0:46.9 | person. I'm so excited to talk about this because I received a really thoughtful message on |
| 0:52.8 | Instagram from Olivia last week. |
| 0:55.5 | She said that over the last few months, she's realized many of her friendships just aren't right |
| 1:00.9 | for her. As an empath and highly sensitive person, she spends a lot of time giving support and |
| 1:07.7 | going out of her way to help her friends and even though she enjoys doing it, |
| 1:13.5 | she also feels that some of these friendships are really one-sided and she's starting to become |
| 1:18.9 | exhausted. The fun and lightheartedness has been lost. Olivia also feels like her friends |
| 1:26.1 | enjoy things that she doesn't, like partying and drinking, |
| 1:29.7 | when she would prefer just to go out for dinner or brunch or go for a walk. And this is something |
| 1:35.4 | I really resonate with too. When I was at university, I just lost interest in going out at night |
| 1:42.4 | because I didn't enjoy it that much and I couldn't |
| 1:45.0 | really afford it anyway. On the other hand, I had some really wonderful friendships with people |
| 1:50.2 | who were on a similar page as me and we'd go out for coffee or just stay in and watch movies |
| 1:56.2 | or go for walks. Anyway, Olivia also explained that she would love to hear my thoughts on meeting |
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