How Being Highly Sensitive Can Be Your Superpower | Elaine Aron, PhD [Best of]
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
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🗓️ 11 August 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Psychologist Dr Elaine Aron sits down with Jonathan Fields to unpack the traits of the Highly Sensitive Person and show how this wiring can become your greatest strength in family life.
Get science-backed strategies straight from her book “The Highly Sensitive Parent: Be Brilliant in Your Role, Even When the World Overwhelms You” and start turning overwhelm into resilience.
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| 0:00.0 | So what if being highly sensitive was actually a superpower and not something to be fixed? |
| 0:06.7 | Well, if you've ever heard the term highly sensitive person, or maybe been called highly |
| 0:11.3 | sensitive and maybe even recoiled a bit when that happened, our conversation with today's |
| 0:17.1 | guest, Dr. Elaine Aaron, it just might change your mind and even your world. |
| 0:22.3 | An acclaimed researcher, she first identified high sensitivity as this distinct character trait |
| 0:28.3 | more than 25 years ago introducing the term highly sensitive person to describe someone |
| 0:33.8 | who is easily overwhelmed by strong sensory input, subtleties and environment, |
| 0:38.5 | and other people's moods, someone who processes things in different ways and at different |
| 0:42.9 | speeds, and deeply feels pressure and overstimulation. And since its publication in 1995, |
| 0:49.2 | her preeminent book on the subject, The Highly Sensitive Person, has gone on to become an |
| 0:53.7 | international bestseller, translated into 30 languages. She's also the subject, The Highly Sensitive Person, has gone on to become an international bestseller, |
| 0:55.1 | translated into 30 languages. She's also the author of The Highly Sensitive Parent and |
| 0:59.7 | many others, and she has established the foundation for the study of highly sensitive persons |
| 1:05.1 | and published many scientific articles on sensitivity and leading journals in her field. |
| 1:10.0 | And it turns out today's conversation |
| 1:12.3 | was also personal because in many ways I've begun to realize that I actually identify as a highly |
| 1:19.0 | sensitive person. But I also discovered so much more about the way that I move through the |
| 1:23.7 | world, how this trait relates to things like introversion and extroversion, very |
| 1:28.6 | surprising, and how you can be both highly sensitive while also being high sensation, which I had |
| 1:35.0 | never heard of before. And we also discover how Elaine's lens on high sensitivity has really |
| 1:40.3 | evolved in major and meaningful ways since her groundbreaking early research on the topic. |
| 1:46.0 | So excited to share this best of conversation with you. I'm Jonathan Fields and this is Good Life Project. |
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