How Sensitive is “too” Sensitive? And How Can It Become a Superpower? | Jenn Granneman
Good Life Project
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4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Feel overwhelmed by the world's intensity? Bestselling author Jenn Granneman (Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World) reveals how to transform your sensitivity from a perceived weakness into a profound strength.
Discover the five superpowers of highly sensitive people and how to thrive by embracing - not suppressing - your ability to feel the world's richness so vividly.
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| 0:00.0 | It's easy to get stressed. It's easy to get overwhelmed when you're sensitive. I'm not saying you |
| 0:04.4 | shouldn't try to fix those things that you struggle with. But... |
| 0:10.2 | So ever felt misunderstood or overwhelmed by the intensity of the world around you? Today, |
| 0:17.0 | best-selling author of the book's sensitivity, Jen Granaman, reveals how embracing your |
| 0:21.6 | sensitivity can transform it from a perceived weakness into your greatest strength. |
| 0:26.6 | Sensitive people feel the stress and the pain and the joy and the beauty of the world, |
| 0:32.3 | usually in a pretty intense way, because they're picking up so much. |
| 0:35.8 | It feels like we live in a world that's not |
| 0:38.3 | really built for sensitive people and often we'll even tend to judge it. It's hard to be a sensitive |
| 0:43.9 | person in this world. It's hard, right? We see people struggling. We see stress, pain, heartache. |
| 0:52.0 | When I use the word sensitive, I'm talking about it as a personality trait. |
| 0:56.3 | Does that mean you look at it as something that is changeable or not? Oh, great question. |
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