Compassionate Conversations with Esther Kane, MSW
Compassionate Conversations is all about getting honest and real with yourself, letting go of the past, along with behaviour patterns which are no longer serving you, and growing into the person you have always wanted to become. As a highly sensitive person (HSP) as well as being a psychotherapist specializing in highly sensitive people with almost three decades of experience, I will share the tools and tips which have helped both me and my highly sensitive clients completely transform their lives: owning their power, speaking their voice, and squeezing the juice out of life! Please join us in these Compassionate Conversations and share with people who could also benefit. Watch these episodes on my YouTube channel: @compassionateconversations441) www.estherkane.com Instagram:@estherkanemsw Facebook: Esther Kane, MSW, RSW, RCC
Episodes
If you're a deeply feeling, intuitive, and empathetic person who often puts others first, this episode is for you. Esther Kane, MSW explores the real reasons why HSPs are more prone to self-abandoning behaviours—like people-pleasing, over-apologizing, or saying “yes” when you want to say “no.” This isn’t about weakness—it’s about your sensitive nervous system, emotional depth, and how you’ve learned to survive in...
Do you find yourself putting everyone else first, even when it hurts you? Self-abandonment is when we ignore our needs to please others. Esther shares her top tips on how to recognize it and to heal.
This podcast episode outlines the concept of self-abandonment, its signs, consequences, and how to heal from it. Practical exercises are provided to reconnect with oneself and practise self-compassion.
Are you a highly sensitive person who likes adventure? Then you may be a high sensation seeker as well as an HSP. Esther interviews a couple who teach HSP/HSS people how to thrive.
In this enlightening conversation, Esther Kane, along with guests Randy Grasser and Annet van Duinen, delves into the unique intersection of being a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) and a High Sensation Seeker (HSS). They explore personal exper...
As a highly sensitive woman, is your experience of menopause different from other women you know? Do you feel misunderstood by helping professionals & aren’t getting what you need from them?
Esther shares her top tips to make this season of change easier to manage as a highly sensitive woman.
In this episode, Esther discusses the unique experiences of highly sensitive women during menopause. She outli...
Are you a highly sensitive person who struggles with relationships? Do you feel that the relationships in your life mostly drain you? It doesn't have to be this way. Listen to this episode to learn how to set boundaries & create healthy relationships which nourish & uplift.
In this conversation, Esther Kane discusses the unique challenges and strengths of highly sensitive people (HSPs) in relatio...
Are you a highly sensitive person (HSP) in need of some tools to build & maintain healthy relationships? Esther Kane, @compassionateconversations441 discusses the importance of self-reflection in building healthy relationships & emphasizes the need to go slowly & to check in with emotions & physical sensations.
Chapters
00:00 Building Healthy Relationships Through Self-Reflection
Are you a highly sensitive woman going through perimenopause? In this episode, two HSP psychotherapists, (who are themselves navigating the menopausal transition), discuss the shortcomings of the medical system, the importance of healing past traumas and losses, developing agency, and the journey towards self-discovery and joy.
In this conversation, Esther Kane, MSW and Michele Jenkins, MSW, discuss the emot...
Are you afraid of menopause because you've heard horror stories from older women? In this episode, Esther Kane, women's psychotherapist (25+yrs), interviews Susan Willson, Nurse Midwife & author of Making Sense of Menopause. They discuss how this stage of a woman's life can be a higher calling to heal unfinished business & explore our innate wisdom & creativity.
00:00:00 Compassi...
In this episode, Esther Kane interviews Dr. Georgia Ede of Diagnosis Diet, a nutritional psychiatrist, about her new book, Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind. Dr. Ede explains the link between metabolism and the state of our mental health. She also discusses the exciting finding in the growing field of metabolic psychiatry that many people are able to greatly reduce or eliminate psychiatric medications when they eat ...
Esther Kane is a psychotherapist who specializes in helping Highly Sensitive People (or HSPs) become all that they dream of being. In this short talk, she points towards the fact that as HSPs, we are highly skilled at extending compassion towards others, but often fail to extend it towards ourselves. She ends with guiding you through a short meditation, which will help you develop the beginnings of self-compassion.
Esther Kane is a psychotherapist who specializes in helping highly sensitive people (or HSPs) become all that they dream of being. In this short talk, she shares her reflections on why HSPs do so well in psychotherapy and are every therapist's dream to work with.
FREE resources:
Self-compassion resources mentioned:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWDla...
https://www.estherka...
Esther Kane is a psychotherapist who specializes in helping highly sensitive people (or HSPs) become all that they dream of being. In this short talk, she discusses why and how our anger can be harmful to ourselves. She explains how high sensitivity and introversion contribute to the internalization of emotions and how shoving our feelings down can cause many health problems such as depression and anxiety
B...
Esther Kane is a psychotherapist who specializes in helping Highly Sensitive People (or HSPs) discusses the concept called 'being inwardly outrageous' by SARK and encourages HSPs everywhere to try it out for themselves.
Where to find SARK and her fabulous books:
https://www.planetsark.com
To check out Esther's outrageous shoe collection and to find some fun shoes for yourself:
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Esther Kane, a psychotherapist who specializes in helping highly sensitive people (or HSPs) shares tips for how we can lessen anxiety around being physically sick. She talks about how she has made peace with having seasonal allergies through exposure therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy and gives some affirmations which lower anxiety.
FREE resources:
To learn more about the Highly Sensitive Pe...
As a highly sensitive person, do you feel like the odd one out for being different than other people? What if you could learn to reframe your sensitivity as a superpower instead of being mean to yourself? Listen to this short musing by Esther to learn some easy and incredibly effective tools which will help you transform how you view yourself and empower you to step out as the amazing super-person you are.
As a highly sensitive person, do you feel like you are less in charge of your life than you'd like to be? What if there was a way to learn to be the 'driver of the bus' that is your one precious life? Listen to this short talk to learn more about how to take your power back.
Author of book mentioned, The Body Keeps the Score is Bessel van ver Kolk:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_...
As a highly sensitive person, do you feel like the odd one out for being different than other people? What if you could learn to reframe your sensitivity as a superpower instead of being mean to yourself? Listen to this short talk to learn some easy and incredibly effective tools which will help you transform how you view yourself and empower you to step out as the amazing super-person you are.
FREE resources...
As a highly sensitive person, do you feel like the odd one out for being different than other people? What if you could learn to reframe your sensitivity as a superpower instead of being mean to yourself? Listen to this short talk to learn some easy and incredibly effective tools which will help you transform how you view yourself and empower you to step out as the amazing super-person you are.
FREE resource...
Are you a fan of Ketogenic Woman (Anita Breeze)? I sure am! Here she shares her personal story which contributed to a significant weight gain before she found the ketogenic way of eating. I was touched by her story and deeply moved by the emotional healing she has done in order to heal her relationship with food and her body. I think you will be too. Enjoy!
Episode Contents
0:00 Compassionate Convers...
Canadian Psychotherapist Esther Kane interviews Dawn Hertz, a grief and loss therapist, to provide some tools for those of you who are grieving a recent loss.
Episode Contents:
0:00 Compassionate Conversations Intro
0:24 Introduction of Dawn Hertz
1:30 How Dawn has been touched personally by grief and loss
9:39 How she became interested in specializing in grief and loss as a therapist
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