23. Kindred Spirits & Friendship

The Highly Sensitive Person Podcast

Kelly

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4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2014

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Pontificating on Friendship

"Kindred Spirits" are intimate friends, people with whom you are comfortable being your true self. HSPs are often on the hunt for kindred spirits, especially at parties, gatherings, or networking events. Having a deep, intense, shared connection with someone else is essential to meeting the emotional needs of sensitive people.

In this episode 23, I also talk about Anne of Green Gables, Susan Cain (as per usual), and why it's ok to let go of friends you don't truly connect with.

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Resources mentioned in this episode:

The Susan Cain & Marie Forleo interview. (The "kindred spirit" part is around 13:00)

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is the highly sensitive person podcast, a weekly podcast for people who experience the world
0:07.9	brighter, louder, and more intensely. Join me on a journey of acceptance of our highly sensitive
0:15.0	person traits. Happy Tuesday, thanks for tuning in to episode 23 of the HSP podcast. I'm your host, Kelly,
0:24.5	and this is a show where I talk about what it's like to be a highly sensitive person and an
0:29.4	introvert. I do want to point that out that I am also an introvert, so for those of you who
0:34.3	are highly sensitive extroverts, you may have somewhat different experiences or
0:39.6	opinions than I do. So keep that in mind when listening to the show. Before jumping into the topic
0:45.5	today of Kindred Spirits, I'd like to read a comment that was left in the blog by a reader named
0:50.4	Karen. She writes, thanks to your blog, I've finally been able to understand myself and my
0:56.0	children. I thought I had Asperger's or some mental illness because I'm so different than most
1:00.8	people. I've even yelled at the top of my lungs, do people not care at all or do I care too much?
1:07.0	Turns out, I care too much in most people's opinion. Today, I brought HSP awareness to my oldest son, and I could see the relief flooding his face.
1:16.0	Sometimes having someone I know well tell me I need to calm down because things aren't as bad as I make him out to be can be very helpful in grounding.
1:24.8	Karen, thanks so much for that comment.
1:26.8	It's so wonderful to hear from people that this
1:29.2	podcast have helped them better understand their families, their partners, and their children.
1:35.1	And it leads well in today's topic about friendship and kindred spirits. The first time I heard
1:42.2	the phrase kindred spirits was from the super popular Anne of Green Gables TV movie in the mid-80s,
1:47.5	which of course was adapted from a very popular book. The character of Anne used the term
1:52.5	kindred spirit to talk about intimate friends, people with whom she felt she could bear her soul.
1:58.6	She held these people so dear to her heart and was fiercely loyal to them.
2:03.7	Susan Kane, the author of the introvert book Quiet, used the phrase in an interview she did
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