Hello, welcome to the show.

This is Emotional Badass, where Moxie meets Mindful.

I'm your host, life coach and psychotherapist, Nikki Eisenhower.

And on today's episode, I'm breaking down some of the nuance of what it is to be a highly sensitive person.

Okay. I've been a therapist now for 19 years. It's almost two decades. I cannot believe it. And it remains one of the hardest things for me to explain to people exactly what I do. Part of how I've learned what I actually do for people is by receiving feedback from so many people.

Without that feedback, I don't know that I could put what I do into any words at all.

I know that part of my gift as a sensitive person is language is explaining some of these

nuanced emotional concepts. So it's also tricky and hard for me that I kind of stink at

describing what I do myself. But it's the thing that I have taught my clients over the years.

If you can see me on video right now, I'm putting my hand over my

face. Because my hand is so close, I can't see the lines in my hand. It's easier for me,

just like it's easier for you, to see somebody else, because we have the perspective. So as easy

as it is for me to see the strengths, the gifts, the knowledge,

and put language to what someone else may be doing in their world, it really has been hard

for me. The nuance of working with sensitivity is so wide and deep for me that I find that it transcends language very often.

What I've done in today's episode is try to break down a few generalized but very nuanced things

that I see most highly sensitive people doing.

And I'm trying to do this because when I point these things out in a one-on-one session,

most clients are very relieved and kind of puzzled that they weren't able to see that

with clarity in themselves, but they feel the resonance of a, yes, my goodness, oh, I do do that. That is me. And I think that's a very important step that we have to meet ourselves in on repeat to understand who we are. Why is it so hard to understand who we are? Because we're in a world

that's very different than how we are. So we're unraveling all of the things we've been, frankly,

brainwashed into over the course of our lives. Like, oh, stop crying the second we cry. Oh, you're too sensitive. Because we emote. We don't have

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