44: The Gifts of Being a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)
The Simple Sophisticate - Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style
Shannon Ables
4.7 • 944 Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2015
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Inspired by Dr. Elaine Aron's best-selling book, The Highly Sensitive Person, discover the 26 characteristics of being highly sensitive and learn 19 ways to ensure you can thrive to your fullest potential.
In this week's Petit Plaisir, Shannon shares one of her favorite podcasts to listen to while relaxing and traveling: The Splendid Table.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the simple Sophisticate Podcast, where intelligent living is paired with signature style. |
| 0:16.2 | I'm your host, Shannon Ables. |
| 0:18.8 | And whether you're listening on your commute, exercising, working in the garden, or sitting down with a hot cup of tea or a |
| 0:25.0 | cafe ole, thank you for tuning in. Let's get started. And the Welcome to the 44th episode of The Simple Sophisticate. |
| 0:49.1 | I want to thank you for your patience as last week there wasn't an episode of the simple |
| 0:53.3 | sophisticated due to my travels I had an amazing experience in a book sign event in |
| 0:57.5 | New Canaan Connecticut and I wrote all about it last week and my trip to New York |
| 1:01.4 | City and all the life lessons I learned last Monday. |
| 1:04.7 | So if you would like to go look at that to see what I was up to while I was in hiatus on the |
| 1:09.2 | podcast, you're welcome to go look at that. |
| 1:11.3 | I will have links to those posts on today's show notes, but I want to thank you for your patience, and I am so excited to be back as today's topic is something I have been learning about, discovering, diving into, and feeling enlightened by for quite some time now. |
| 1:29.4 | And I hope to bring a lifting of that burden to you too, if you didn't know about the topic we're talking |
| 1:34.8 | about or a deeper understanding of the topic. |
| 1:38.7 | So what is the topic you may be wondering? |
| 1:41.0 | Well today's episode is all about being a highly sensitive person. |
| 1:47.0 | Today I'll be sharing what the characteristics are of being a highly sensitive person, but also |
| 1:51.7 | what a highly sensitive person or |
| 1:53.4 | HSP is I'm going to be referring to it throughout the episode needs to thrive. |
| 1:58.4 | And once we figure out those tools, it's amazing how we can reach our full potential quicker more easily |
| 2:05.2 | and without unnecessary burden or strife. But before I dive in today's episode I |
| 2:10.6 | want to give you a quick teaser as to what today's |
| 2:13.7 | Petit pleasure is. |
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