Not Too Sensitive - Empowering Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) To Own Their Sensitivity

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249. Being Seen: How to Put Yourself Out There Even When You're Afraid of Being Misperceived

Being seen means being judged. In this episode, Alissa lays out why that's not a reason to stay small, and what it actually takes to let other people have an opinion of you without losing yourself in it.For HSPs, this isn't just a confidence issue. It's energetic. You feel it whe ...  Show more

248. Wanna Become Unbotherable? Start By Building Resilience

For HSPs navigating a world that wasn't built for them, the default can become: everything is hard, no one understands, and discomfort is a signal to retreat.In this solo episode, Alissa challenges that frame directly. She shares how her life experience has shaped her view of cha ...  Show more

247. Allow Others the Dignity of Their Own Experience

In this episode, Alissa revisits one of the most important distinctions for highly sensitive people: the difference between caring about someone and carrying their experience as your own. Using real examples from clients and her own life, she unpacks why the impulse to manage oth ...  Show more

246. How to Stop Feeling Like a Burden and Allow Yourself to "Inconvenience" Others

In this solo episode, Alissa explores one of the most deeply ingrained patterns she sees in highly sensitive people: the belief that having needs makes you a burden.For HSPs, this is a story that gets built early, when your emotional reactions were “too big”, when your needs felt ...  Show more

245. Why Everything You've Been Through Was Preparing You for This

In this solo episode, Alissa shares a deeply personal update about her daughter's new celiac disease diagnosis and what it revealed about the way life equips you long before you understand why.Years of navigating her own severe digestive issues, strict diets, and the emotional we ...  Show more