217. How to Stop Feeling Self-Conscious for Being Different Than Other People

217. How to Stop Feeling Self-Conscious for B...

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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

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