Ep 224. Being a Highly Sensitive Person with April Snow

Not Another Anxiety Show

Kelli Walker

Therapy, Health & Fitness, Mindfulness, Health, Alternative Health, Mental Health, Anxiety, Claireweekes, Counseling, Brenebrown, Research, Meditation, Panicattacks, Science, Selfhelp, Stress

4.8 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Join Kelli and licensed psychotherapist April Snow as we chat about what it means to be a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) and the relationship it has to anxiety. Spoiler alert: Being an HSP probably doesn't mean what you think it does AND it definitely doesn't mean you're doomed to a life filled with anxiety! This is a valuable conversation even if you don't identify as an HSP because chances are you know someone who is.

Visit notanotheranxietyshow.com for more resources, including coaching, articles, videos, and more!

Disclaimer: Hopefully you find the information in this podcast helpful, but it is not intended to replace medical advice and should not be used as such.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey, guys, welcome to not another anxiety show. I'm your host, Kelly Walker, and joining me today is guest April Snow. Hey, April. Hey, Kelly. Thanks for having me. Yes, thank you so much for
0:22.5	taking time to hop on the show. I'm really excited about our conversation. Same. Yeah, I'm excited to be here.
0:29.6	Before we get started, do you mind if I share a little bit more about you with our audience?
0:33.9	Please do. Thank you. Awesome. April Snow, LMFT, is a licensed psychotherapist in California,
0:41.3	who specializes in working with highly sensitive introverts, perfectionists, and high achievers.
0:48.5	April strongly believes that being a highly sensitive person doesn't have to stop you from living
0:53.0	a fully engaged life and is
0:54.9	a mission to help HSPs create a life on their own terms so they can manage the overwhelm and
1:01.2	start to thrive. Find out more at www. expansive heart.com. So April, my first question is, can you tell us what it means and what it looks like to be a highly
1:17.3	sensitive person?
1:18.4	Sure, absolutely.
1:19.9	I know some folks listening may have not heard of this term before or may have heard of
1:26.0	the word sensitive or can call it too sensitive. So I'll just expand it out just to give some more context.
1:31.3	So being a highly sensitive person is someone born with a unique temperament trait. It's also called sensory processing sensitivity in the research.
1:41.3	But in plain terms, you're going to hear it called high sensitivity or HSP for short.
1:46.9	But the title, it really doesn't capture the complexity of being an HSP because there's a lot of misconceptions about it, especially if you're someone who is sensitive, it may have been used as a negative, right?
1:58.1	All you're too sensitive, you're too fragile, you know, you're too slow, whatever it is.
2:01.6	There's a lot of labels we get heard around sensitivity.
2:05.6	So this trait was originally put on the map by Dr. Elaine Aaron about 25 years ago, and since there's
2:11.6	been a ton of research has come out, which is really comforting as an HSP dinner, like, hey, it's real,
2:16.6	I'm not making this up. You know,
2:17.9	I am feeling everything so deeply and noticing so much. So this, this temperament trade is found
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Kelli Walker, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Kelli Walker and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.