The Mind, Body, Soul Connection on the HSP Healing Journey

In this episode of The Happy HSP Podcast, I’m joined by HSP life coach Louise Smith who, after realizing she was an HSP in her early forties, encountered mixed emotions about her trait. We talk about how difficult it can be to find your footing and confidence as an HSP, and we also explore how HSPs can benefit from inviting our minds, bodies, and souls to our healing conversation in unison.

Listen in as we discuss the HSP journey and how Louise helps others heighten their confidence, self-acceptance, and mind-body connection so they can thrive.

In this episode, Louise shares:

• How she discovered she was an HSP later in life.
• A realization that her sensitivity was both mental and physical.
• Her personal journey with confidence-building and self-acceptance.
• The importance of breathwork, meditation, and mindfulness.
• How the right environment is key for HSPs to thrive.
• How awareness and self-compassion can help.
• Practices for honoring sensitivity and cultivating presence.

Topics covered:

• The intersection of HSP traits and trauma responses.
• How it can take time to process that you’re an HSP.
• Tools and practices for regulating the nervous system.
• Embodiment and breathwork as part of the healing process.
• Slowing down as a spiritual practice.
• Setting boundaries to build confidence and self-trust.
• Self-care and body-awareness for navigating sensitivity.
• The beauty and enjoyment of vantage sensitivity.

About Louise Smith:

Louise is a women’s life coach and a Highly Sensitive Person. She provides life coaching to sensitive women who feel stuck and that their low self-confidence is holding them back and affecting their well-being. 

She supports women to achieve confidence and personal growth, empowers and guides them through small steps of action and mindset shifts to overcome self-limiting beliefs, and helps them learn how to regulate the nervous system. Through her support, Louise helps amazing HSP women to thrive rather than just survive.

Follow along with Louise’s journey:

Intagram: @hsp.time.to.thrive  

Email: louisehspcoaching@gmail com

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About Kimberly:

Kimberly Marshall is a career coach for highly sensitive people (HSPs) and host of The Happy HSP Podcast. After 20 years in the publishing industry working for companies like Time Inc., Monster.com, and W. W. Norton, she left her corporate career to pursue work that better suited her HSP needs. She now helps HSPs overcome burnout and low confidence in the workplace and create gentle and nurturing careers that bring them lots of purpose, meaning, and joy.

Through her work and creative ventures, Kimberly hopes to shed more light on the reality of living with high sensitivity and inspire more HSPs to embrace their empathetic, loving, and gentle natures.

• Hosted/produced by Kimberly Marshall
• Edited by Fonzie Try Media
• Artwork by Tara Corola
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