Elaine Aron: Are You a Highly Sensitive Person?

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Elaine Aron is a clinical depth psychologist and the author of the seminal 1997 book The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You. With Sounds True, she has published the new audio learning program The Highly Sensitive Person's Complete Learning Program: Essential Insights and Tools for Navigating Your Work, Relationships, and Life. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon speaks with Dr. Aron about what it means to be a highly sensitive person and recent research into the phenomenon. They consider whether the trait is genetic or adaptive, as well as the various ways sensitive behaviors manifest in day-to-day life. They also discuss how best to approach romantic relationships with highly sensitive people and the possible social advantages of sensitivity. Finally, Dr. Aron shares the connection between extreme sensitivity and intuition, as well as attitudes necessary for embracing the entirety of your unique, sensitive self.(50 minutes)

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0:00.0	Welcome to Insights at the Edge, produced by Sounds True.
0:04.0	My name is Tammy Simon. I'm the founder of Sounds True.
0:08.0	And I'd love to take a moment to introduce you to the new Sounds True Foundation.
0:12.0	The Sounds True Foundation is dedicated to creating a wiser and kinder world by making transformational education widely available. We want everyone to have access to
0:26.8	transformational tools such as mindfulness, emotional awareness, and self-compassion, regardless of financial, social, or physical challenges.
0:39.3	The Sounds True Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to providing these transformational tools to communities
0:46.9	in need, including at-risk youth, prisoners, veterans, and those in developing countries.
0:54.0	If you'd like to learn more or feel inspired to become a supporter,
0:58.4	please visit sounds true foundation.org. You're listening to Insights at the Edge.
1:10.0	Today my guest is Dr. Elaine Aaron.
1:13.5	Elaine Aaron earned her PhD in clinical depth psychology as well as interning at the
1:19.8	Sijouing Institute in San Francisco. Elaine Aaron literally wrote the book on the highly sensitive person in
1:28.0	1998.
1:30.0	She coined the term, and since then she's dedicated her life and her teaching work to educating people and doing research on what it means to be a highly sensitive person.
1:44.0	What sounds true, Elaine Arran has created a new
1:48.0	audio training program called the Highly Sensitive's complete learning program,
1:55.0	essential insights and tools for navigating your work, relationships, and life.
2:01.0	I joked with Elaine during this conversation that HSP, the highly sensitive person, those same initials, could be used to describe a highly skeptical person.
2:15.4	Elaine entertained all my skeptical questions
2:19.4	with a lot of sensitivity and made a very strong case that the more we can recognize and honor our
2:27.8	sensitivity, the more people with high sensitivity will be cultural leaders and that's something that we need.
2:36.0	Here's my conversation with Elaine Aaron.
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