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Aloha, welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. In today's episode I have a question that

came in from Liz. She was asking about being a highly sensitive person and her

anxiety and so I want to get to that because I really believe that with self-care that she can and all of you who consider yourself highly sensitive people and I know that's probably a lot of you again that just means that you are

tuned in you may have high intuition you feel other people's feelings you can you have lived a life where you take a lot of that on.

There are many things that you can do to hold on to the gifts of being a highly sensitive person, meaning being intuitive, compassionate,

knowing things, having noosis, and also not taking on everything from the whole world around you.

So anyway, today is about the power of self-care for the highly sensitive anxious person. I want to read Liz's letter first, her email.

Hi Gina, I'm wondering if you could talk about the highly sensitive person and anxiety.

I am a highly sensitive person and can easily be triggered if someone around me is having a bad day going through

something stressful or if they are even upset with someone else. I find myself getting incredibly agitated and restless and have a hard time

distancing myself. It's as though I take on their stress as my own. It would be great to

learn some coping skills. I have a hard time finding the balance between feeling compassion for what they are going through,

yet not taking their problems on as my own. Thanks, Gina all the great work you do, Liz. Liz, thank you so much for that email.

You're not alone and I consider myself as a highly sensitive person and had struggled with

this exact problem and still when I am tired or sick or hungry or whatever not by not on top of my game I can also find myself doing this because number one it's an old habit right from

back in the day and a number two it's my nature to be sensitive to those around me.

Not everyone who is anxious considers themselves a highly sensitive person. It's just a label. It doesn't mean you are it or you're not it. It's like at times in your life you can be more sensitive than others. And some of us just come into this world with a lot of

sensitivity to the world around us and so we can easily fall into being anxious because we are taking on those things of the people around us.

So don't worry about the labels, don't worry about what it's being called.

If you find yourself being sensitive and taking

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