Your Sensitivities Are Your Right & Responsibility w/ Sensitivity Expert Andre Sólo

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Kevin Miller

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🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

The word “sensitive” has a lot of baggage. Much of it is negative. We are critical of people who we deem are not sensitive. Insensitive, we say. We are critical of people who we deem are too sensitive. Over sensitive, we say. If you look for the meaning of the word, you find this - Being sensitive means having a nervous system that processes information more deeply, resulting in acute physical, mental, or emotional responses to stimuli. I find myself today wanting to, as it says, “process information more deeply.” I want to feel the feels and experience all the sensations. That said, there are some things I feel, maybe too acutely. Some emotionally and some sensory. On both accounts I have some areas where I feel overly sensitive. How I choose to perceive them and address them is how I choose to care for myself, and with others regarding me. My guest in this show is my guru on sensitivities, and specifically, HSPs - highly sensitive people. Andre Sólo is the force behind Sensitive Refuge, the world’s largest website for sensitive people, and Andre is the co-author of "Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World." When I first read Andre’s book, I labeled myself an HSP, and you’ll hear me refer to such in this episode. Since then, I do not accept this label, as I don’t really accept any label. I don’t align with saying I’m all of anything. But I do accept that there are some emotions and sensory perceptions that I recognize myself to be highly sensitive to. You may align with this as well, and Andre is here to help us learn how to be highly functioning, regardless of your sensitivities. Find him at his homebase website, sensitiverefuge.com, and find him on IG @sensitiverefuge Sign up for your $1/month trial period at shopify.com/kevin Go to shipstation.com and use code KEVIN to start your free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome. I'm Kevin Miller. I have conversations with people that help us make better meaning of our lives.
0:07.8	In this episode, your sensitivities are your right and your responsibility.
0:15.9	The word sensitive, it's got a lot of baggage. Much of it's negative. We're critical of people who we
0:22.3	deem are not sensitive. They are insensitive, we say. And we're critical of people who we deem are too
0:28.5	sensitive. They're over sensitive, we say. If you look for the meaning of the word, you find this.
0:34.3	Being sensitive means having a nervous system that processes information more deeply,
0:40.0	resulting in acute physical, mental, or emotional responses to stimuli.
0:45.9	I find myself today wanting to, as it says, process information more deeply.
0:54.0	I do.
0:55.0	I want to feel the feelings and experience all the sensations.
0:59.0	That said, there are some things I feel, maybe, I may, I may fill them too acutely, some emotionally and some sensory-wise.
1:10.0	On both accounts, I have some areas where I feel overly sensitive.
1:15.0	How I choose to perceive them and address them is how I choose to care for myself and
1:20.0	with others regarding me.
1:22.7	Well, my guest in this show is my guru on sensitivities and
1:27.4	specifically HSPs, highly sensitive people.
1:31.8	Andre Solo, he's the force behind sensitive refuge, the world's largest website for sensitive people,
1:39.3	which I think to some degree is a bit all of us to some aspects. He's the author, Andre is, of a book called
1:48.9	Sensitive, the Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too Much World. So when I
1:56.9	first read Andre's book, I labeled myself as an HSP because I resonated with so much.
2:03.9	And you'll hear me refer to that in this episode that was recorded a while ago.
2:09.2	Since then, I don't really accept this label.
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