And hello to you and welcome to the Richard Nichols podcast, the Personal Development podcast series that's here to help inspire, educate and motivate you to be the best you can be.

I'm psychotherapist Richard Nichols and this is episode 215.

It's titled Sensitivity.

And if you're ready, we'll start the show.

Hello people, it's July.

Not that you'd know it.

Flipping English summer, eh?

It's annoying sometimes when things don't meet our expectations, isn't it?

Like things aren't difficult enough for people right now.

Now we've got to throw in the uncertainty of whether we need a coat or not just to go to the shops.

Small issue, I know, in the big scheme of things, but life does pile things up on top of us, doesn't it?

Something struck a chord with a few people the other week.

I was talking about being sensitive and getting easily frustrated in the impatience episode.

This was on Patreon.

Did I mention I use Patreon as a way of allowing listeners to support

my podcasts? I'm sure I must have mentioned it once or twice before. Well, if you like what I do and you'd

like to support me, you can. And you get a lot of extra mental health stuff alongside it as well. So look me up. Link is in the show notes.

Anyway, I made an episode about impatience and talked about how when life can be a bit rubbish, it makes us

extra sensitive. And because everything feels upside down at the minute, we're a bit raw and on edge, and it means that things can get easily aggravated.

Like I was working in the garden last weekend when we suddenly had that brief burst of good weather, didn't we?

And I'm like, I'm going weeding.

And I spent a couple of hours pulling up little weeds out of the gravel garden that I've got.

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