20. Anticipatory Grief

The Highly Sensitive Person Podcast

Kelly

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4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2014

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Anticipatory grief is a grief reaction that occurs before an impending loss, typically, the death of someone close to you. This episode is about how us HSPs can experience this grief more than others, and not just about death.

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Podcast music attribution: By the Coast (2004) (Antony Raijekov) / CC BY-NC 2.5

Transcript

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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.
0:11.3	Join me on a journey of acceptance of our highly sensitive person traits.
0:18.0	Welcome to episode 20 of the Highly Sensitive Person Podcast.
0:22.6	I'm your host, Kelly.
0:24.6	Thanks for tuning in today.
0:26.3	Happy to have you here in this podcast for people with a sensory processing sensitivity.
0:32.8	Before we get started, I'd like to read a comment from a reader in regards to how she felt about
0:38.0	finding all this new information about highly sensitive people.
0:41.8	Jessica wrote,
0:43.2	My whole life finally has an explanation.
0:46.4	Wow.
0:47.1	Now I know what to do, how to go about things, how to assess, and for God's sake, why I am like
0:52.4	this.
0:53.4	Since I was a child, I have always been so, so
0:56.2	sensitive beyond what most of the world considers normal or healthy. I was ridiculed by everyone,
1:02.5	told I was too sensitive. I know I need to take steps to adjust my life to my needs now.
1:08.0	There's nothing wrong with me. I'm just an HSP. Jessica, thanks so much for sharing.
1:13.7	That is awesome. Before I jump right into the topic today, I want to explain why I jump right
1:20.9	into the topic so quickly in these podcasts. I myself listen to a lot of podcasts and I get a little annoyed when an episode has a really long
1:31.2	intro and the host is kind of just rambling and doing small talk. There was one the other day
1:36.4	where the two hosts talked about the weather for a few minutes. It kind of bugs me because I don't
1:41.8	have a ton of time. I want to get to the meat of the podcast.
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