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Hello, welcome to Emotional Bad Ass, where Moxie meets mindful. I'm your host, Nikki Eisenhower, Life Coach and Psychotherapist.

And on today's episode, I'm discussing highly sensitive people and the guru of illness.

Hi, y'all. I'm sick. You might hear it in my voice and get over a head cold. And I want to share with you some struggles that are common for highly sensitive people.

I'm calling this episode highly sensitive people and the guru of illness. And a guru is simply a teacher.

And I'm a believer that we don't so much need to go seek out a person as a guru. Life itself is the guru.

Every single experience that we have, if we pick up a lens of life is the guru, we get to use that life experience as a teacher.

So illness for this episode is the guru. It's our teacher. This is the third time that I've been sick since Christmas when I had COVID.

And two of the three illnesses I've had this year have just kicked my ass for an entire month. And I know that many of you are in the same boat.

And these are long arm consequences from two years of limited human contact during lockdowns.

Because a human immune system needs constant interaction with bacteria and viruses to keep immune system muscles strong. And when we don't get that strengthening day in and day out from interacting with each other, our immune system is weakened.

Just like if we are a weightlifter with big strong muscles and we stop lifting weights, our muscles lose strength. Our daily human interactions and our earthly germs are important weight training for our immune systems to grow strong.

So as all of us as a human tribe.

As we reintegrate human beings with other human beings, post COVID lockdowns. Whether the human tribe is conscious and aware of it or not, this is sort of the time when we're going back to the gym after a long hiatus.

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