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The Highly Sensitive Person Podcast

61: Amy Morin and Building Mental Strength

The Highly Sensitive Person Podcast

Kelly

Sensitive, Highlysensitiveperson, Mental Health, Aron, Introversion, Social Sciences, Personality, Mentalhealth, Introvert, Sensitivity, Shyness, Science, Health & Fitness, Hsp, Anxiety, Wellness

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2016

⏱️ 36 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

A popular misconception about Highly Sensitive people--to those who aren’t very familiar with the trait--is that HSPs are always emotionally fragile and not mentally strong.

But this isn't true. You CAN be mentally strong and an HSP--it's all about your coping skills. That’s why I’m excited to share with you Episode 61's guest, Amy Morin, who is an expert on mental strength. Amy is a licensed clinical social worker, psychotherapist, professor, a TED talk speaker, and published author. In 2013, her post 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do, went viral, and ended up being published into a bestselling book and translated into 20 languages. Her post was the most read article of all time on Forbes.com.

I was moved by her story and the challenges she’s dealt with in her life, and how she’s found a way to thrive and become an authority on helping others learn how to better cope. In this episode, Amy talks about:

  • The most common thing mentally strong people don't do
  • How to build mental strength
  • Why seeing a therapist can help, even if you go just once
  • What therapists think about Highly Sensitive People
  • How to stop dwelling on the past
  • How to deal with anticipatory grief

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Podcast music attribution: Bust This Bust That (Professor Kliq) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Highly Sensitive Person Podcast, a twice-monthly podcast for people who experience the world intensely.

0:09.0

Join me on a journey of acceptance of our highly sensitive person traits.

0:15.0

Welcome to Episode 61. I'm your host, Kelly. This is a podcast about what it's like to have

0:24.7

sensory processing sensitivity, the challenges, the benefits, and personal stories. As highly

0:31.9

sensitive people, a popular misconception for those who aren't very familiar with the trait is that HSPs are not mentally

0:39.5

strong, that all HSPs are emotionally fragile. But you can be mentally strong and an HSP.

0:47.3

It's just about what coping skills you have. And that's why I'm excited about today's guest,

0:53.4

Amy Morin, who is an expert on mental strength.

0:57.2

Amy is a licensed clinical social worker, psychotherapist, professor, a TED Talk speaker, and

1:03.5

published author. In 2013, her post, 13 things mentally strong people don't do went viral and ended up being published

1:13.9

into a bestselling book and translated into 20 languages. Her post was the most read article

1:20.4

of all time on Forbes.com. I was moved by her story and the massive challenges she's dealt with in her life and how she's

1:29.0

found a way to thrive and become stronger and become an authority who now helps others learn

1:35.4

how to better cope and increase their mental strength. I'd like to welcome Amy Moran to the show.

1:42.1

Hi, Amy. Hi, thanks for having me. Thank you so much for taking the time to be here.

1:47.5

So the first thing I wanted to ask you is, how did you come up with this article about the 13 things that

1:53.5

mentally strong people don't do? Well, I'm a therapist, and I used to just write articles occasionally

1:59.4

on the side, and I had published this particular article to the web and it went crazy viral.

2:05.1

And within a matter of millions of people had read it and it was crazy.

2:09.2

I was getting calls from national news channels asking me about it.

2:12.2

And all sorts of people were talking about it and was being reprinted in magazines.

2:16.3

And nobody knew why I wrote it

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