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.

Welcome to episode 40 of the Highly Sensitive. I'm your host Kelly. On this show,

I share personal stories, advice, rants, and opinions about life as an introverted HSP, someone who

experiences the world intensely. Before I get started today, I'd like to share a comment from a blog

reader named Amy.

She was responding to a post about sensitivity to smell and odors.

She writes,

I too am super sensitive to smells that no one in my family can smell other than me.

I hear it several times a week, that I'm a bloodhound, that I have the nose of a wolf,

that I should get a job with the police department as a bomb and drug-sniffing dog. This has saved us, though, sometimes,

as in the case of the gas stove being left on. I've also been looked at as a freak because I can

tell when someone in the car in front of mine is smoking. But at other times, I'm the only one who can smell the pine trees,

the smell of great perfume, or the lavender flowers wafting in the breeze. I like sharing

comments like Amy's because I think it helps all of us realize that we aren't alone. You aren't the

only one who feels the way you do, and I'm not the only one who feels the way I do.

There are a lot of us who are sensitive to smells and sounds and emotions and all sorts of things.

Today's show is about being distracted, in particular being easily distracted at work, especially

if you work from home.

Sometimes I'm amazed that for a somewhat intelligent person,

I have such a hard time staying focused on my work. I get really frustrated by how much time I waste.

HSP expert Peter Messerschmitt wrote a piece a couple years ago titled,

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