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Aloha, welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast.

In today's episode, I'm talking about the idea of feeling anxious or feeling highly sensitive,

and so I wanted to get going. Actually, I want to go back a little bit because I want to review the first 13 items

that I went through on Episode 725. So if you haven't listened to Episode 725 yet,

you may want to jump over and check that out. It's where I started this two-part piece on

are you feeling anxious or highly sensitive? So I said I would review the first 13 that I talked about,

and I'll just give you the heading of each of these items, and you can listen to Episode 725 to get

more of an explanation, but just to get us started so that we can finish this two-part series.

Number one, you absolutely abhor violence and cruelty of any kind. This is all about the highly sensitive person.

See if you resonate with these items that I'm reviewing, and then we're going to talk about the last group of them,

because really, when you can actually identify with this and stop being so hard on yourself that there's something wrong with you,

that you have these feelings, the fact is that you are more sensitive to life, and there are so many ways

that you can learn to deal with that, and go through your life without this being a big issue.

But when you don't understand what's going on, and you think there's something gravely wrong with you,

you won't get to that place. So that's the whole point of becoming aware of these signs, of these symptoms,

sensations of being a highly sensitive person. So number one, again, you absolutely abhor violence and cruelty

of any kind. Number two, you're frequently emotionally exhausted from absorbing other people's feelings.

Number three, time pressure really rattles you. Number four, you withdraw often.

Number five, you're jumpy. Six, you think deeply. Seven, you're a seeker. Eight, sudden loud noises startle you.

Nine, you're clothing matters. Ten, your pain tolerance is less. Eleven, your inner world is alive and present.

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