Finding Supportive Healing for Highly Sensitive People

Before we ever interview any guests, we share with them this one disclaimer...Trinity raises her hand and says, "I'm the cusser"...and Shelby follows with, "...and I'm the cryer." And, of course, If you have been listening to our pod for any amount of time, you realize that this is true (though, I'm sure Shelby has thrown out a few choice words as well! And Trinity reminds us that this damn podcast has even made her shed a tear or two! 

Our guest today, Aoife (pronounced "ee-fuh") McCormack, helps us understand that certain people (Shelby may just be one), known as "highly sensitive", have more sensitive nervous systems in which they see, sense, feel, and simply absorb more of the world and people around them. This can make it difficult for their bodies to process all of these feelings and emotions. Further, we've spoken on numerous occasions as to how these emotions can remain stuck in your nervous system and create disease in the body. This manifests itself in many ways such as pain and illness.

Aoife is a transformational health coach for highly sensitive women. She teaches her clients how to heal themselves without diets, supplements and health gimmicks. She does this by teaching women how to get laser clear on the real root of their symptoms and make some mental shifts that will help them to reclaim their past, shift limiting beliefs and start to be able to build a future they thought they had lost. 

In this episode, Aoife teaches us:

1. Highly sensitive people have more sensitive nervous systems in which they see, sense, feel, and absorb things more of the world and people around them and this can make it difficult for your body to process all of these feelings and emotions, which can create disease in the body.

2. when you feel triggered, get curious. Begin to question, what about the situation at hand has made you angry or feel unsafe. Armed with this information, you can start to do the work within your nervous system to begin to create a space of safety.

3. Stop berating yourself. Give yourself compassion.

4. When we are small, we are taught that our gifts of creativity, empathy, joy are not valued. Parents of our generation taught us to be seen, not heard. So, we had no outlet in which to express any emotions.

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