Highly Sensitive Person (2020 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So Elena, please introduce yourself to the podcast. Hi, everyone. My name is Elena Hedekahov, and I'm an intuitive |
| 0:07.4 | life and business coach for highly sensitive people. And I'm so glad to be here with you, Kirk. |
| 0:12.5 | Yeah. So I get a lot of questions about highly sensitive people. In fact, I was just talking about it with |
| 0:18.3 | some of my supervisors yesterday. |
| 0:24.7 | What could you tell us about highly sensitive people? |
| 0:29.8 | Being a highly sensitive person is essentially a personality trait. |
| 0:34.2 | It's genetic, so it's not something you can opt in or opt out of. |
| 0:40.3 | And it was a term that was created by Dr. Elaine Aaron. She is one of the key researchers when it comes to highly sensitive people and she said highly sensitive people can be identified |
| 0:47.3 | by four main characteristics and she used the acronym does to help people understand if they are indeed highly sensitive or not. |
| 0:57.0 | So if you want to, I can just share briefly what does stands for. |
| 1:01.0 | So the D stands for depth of processing. |
| 1:05.0 | So HSPs are the deep thinkers. |
| 1:08.0 | So they can take any type of information and sit with it for much longer than |
| 1:13.6 | the average person would. So it's really chewing things over and even an HSP like myself is |
| 1:20.6 | not necessarily aware that they're doing that, but we take in our environment, we take in what other people say to us, |
| 1:26.6 | and it just takes us |
| 1:28.7 | a lot of time to process and sift through what we see, what we hear, what we feel. |
| 1:35.6 | So this is the first part of that trait, and this is probably the most pronounced part |
| 1:39.8 | of that trait, I would say. |
| 1:41.7 | And then the next one is O, And that stands for over-stimulation. |
| 1:47.0 | So because highly sensitive people have this ability to process the most minute details in great depths, |
| 1:55.0 | what happens is that overwhelm is an HSP's best friend because it's like having 20 tabs open in your computer at any given time. |
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