The Sensitivity Doctor

Key Takeaways:

• Sensitivity can be both innate and shaped by trauma; both can coexist.
• Highly sensitive people absorb their environment more deeply, making trauma and gaslighting more impactful.
• Gaslighting creates a destabilizing feeling; overthinking, while mentally exhausting, feels different and more internalized.
• Intermittent rewards and euphoric recall explain why we sometimes miss people who hurt us.
• HSPs and neurodivergent in...

Key Takeaways:

• Dopamine traps often mask deeper unmet needs for connection, safety, and belonging.
• External validation can offer a temporary high, but often leaves us feeling more depleted in the long run.
• Highly sensitive people (HSPs) and neurodivergent individuals may experience micro-rejections more intensely, increasing their reliance on outside reassurance.
• Social media can be both a connection tool and a comparison minefield...

Key Takeaways:

• Why Jeanne stepped away from the podcast—and what she’s gained since
• Learning to manage life and business as a highly sensitive entrepreneur
• How grief manifests in the body and why it needs space to breathe
• The challenge of letting go of perfectionism and redefining failure
• The energetic cost of staying misaligned in your career
• How intuition and anxiety often go hand-in-hand
• Understanding the emotional and physical imp...

Key Takeaways

• Fear is boring—it recycles the same script, keeping you stuck with the illusion that perfection will keep you safe.
• Perfectionism often hides in plain sight, rebranded as productivity or “being responsible,” but it’s still just fear in disguise.
• The achiever mindset can be a mask for deep wounds, often rooted in rejection, abandonment, or a need to prove worth.
• Neurodiverse thinkers, especially those with ADH...

Key Takeaways:

• Grief is not a linear process with tidy stages—it’s messy, lifelong, and uniquely personal.
• Our culture often fails to acknowledge non-death grief, such as breakups, divorce, and unfulfilled life paths.
• “Grief buckets” offer a helpful framework for grieving: solo time, movement, creativity, nature, and community.
• Rituals and community support (like Jewish traditions such as shiva) are essential but often inaccessible...

Key Takeaways:

• Healing begins with recognizing that all parts are good, even if not all behaviors are.
• Britt’s ALIGN acronym (Acknowledge, Listen, Investigate, Gratitude, Negotiate) offers a user-friendly model for navigating emotions and impulses.
• Your inner critic isn’t the enemy—it may just need retraining into a high-performance coach.
• Micro “yeses” can help you shift habits without overwhelming your nervous system.
• People-pleas...

Key Takeaways:

• What it means to live with both autism and ADHD (AuDHD)
• The hidden cost of masking and how it impacts the nervous system
• How to begin unmasking safely—in relationships, work, and daily life
• The difference between trauma responses and neurodivergent traits
• Why self-compassion is essential when navigating a late diagnosis
• The healing power of connecting with other neurodivergent individuals

Resources & Conne...

Key Takeaways

• Generational trauma often persists because families avoid talking about pain—but healing begins with honesty.
• “Toxic resilience” can look like high-functioning busyness while masking unprocessed trauma.
• Self-care is more than bubble baths—it’s about regulation, awareness, and creating space to feel.
• Breaking generational cycles doesn’t mean being perfect—it means being real.
• Children don’t need protected perfe...

Key Takeaways:

• Cutting ties isn’t impulsive—it’s often the result of long-term patterns of abuse or dysfunction.
• “No contact” can take many forms and doesn’t look the same for everyone.
• Guilt, shame, and societal pressure often accompany estrangement and must be consciously unpacked.
• Grieving the idealized version of a parent is a necessary step toward healing.
• Creating a chosen family and redefining support through intentional rela...

Key takeaways:

• The seven spiritual questions that redefine success
• Why radical honesty is the foundation of self-trust
• Soul mapping: a tool to align with your core values
• How somatics and neuroscience support lasting change
• Empowering highly sensitive people to live outside the “shoulds”
   

Links and resources:

• Dating with Dignity Podcast
• Follow Marni of Instagram
• Connect with Marni on LinkedIn
   

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Key Takeaways:

• Surviving trauma often involves not just the event itself, but the layers of grief, uncertainty, and secondary trauma that follow.
• Healing is not linear and requires patience, self-compassion, and often a willingness to fall apart before rebuilding.
• Trauma can change a person at their core, but through acceptance and intentional healing, transformation is possible.
• Supporting children through trauma requires...

Key Takeaways:

• Fertility challenges are often a signal, not a sentence. They can be a gift pointing toward deeper healing and health.
• Emotional and ancestral trauma, stress, and lifestyle imbalances all play a role in fertility health.
• There’s no "one fix"; it’s about uncovering and tuning multiple levers, nutrition, sleep, environmental toxins, emotional wellness, and nervous system regulation.
• The heart, not just the brain, plays...

Key takeaways:

• The four root causes of disease: toxicity, malnutrition, stagnation, and trauma.
• Highly sensitive individuals may have heightened reactions to histamine-rich foods and environmental toxins.
• Your metabolic type—thyroid, adrenal, ovarian, or pituitary—impacts how your body processes food and stress.
• Histamine intolerance may be a hidden factor in mood swings, sleep issues, and allergic reactions.
• Detox tools like zeolit...

Key Takeaways

• Narcissism exists on a spectrum—from benign to malicious—and all narcissists are abusive in some way.
• One of the most dangerous times in a narcissistic relationship is when you try to leave—safety planning is crucial.
• Narcissists often manipulate through subtle gaslighting and by shifting the blame. You are made to feel like you are the problem.
• The emotional divorce is often more difficult than the legal one—it's whe...

Key Takeaways:

• Boys are often socialized to suppress feelings and disconnect from vulnerability—creating long-term emotional impacts.
• Fear of women is often rooted in deeper fears of being controlled, abandoned, or exposed emotionally.
• Men are typically taught only two “acceptable” emotions: anger and sexual desire—leading to miscommunication and emotional disconnection.
• Casual vulnerability—sharing small truths in real time—can be...

Key takeaways:

• Scarcity mindset isn’t just about money—it shows up as fear, urgency, tension, and a lack of trust in yourself and life.
• Your body knows before your brain does—watch for breath-holding and tightness as early signs of scarcity thinking.
• FOMO can hijack your decision-making. Learn to listen for the “expansive yes” instead of defaulting to “I should.”
• Creativity and comparison don’t mix. When you’re stuck in scarcity, y...

Key takeaways:

• Stuckness isn’t a character flaw—it’s a nervous system response designed to protect you.
• Asking “Why am I like this?” often reinforces paralysis. Ask instead: “What small yes can I offer myself right now?”
• Micro-yeses—tiny, manageable actions—help bypass overwhelm and gently re-engage the brain.
• Your brain’s safety system (fight, flight, freeze) will override logic when it perceives a threat—even if that threat is em...

Key takeaways:

• Why the recent study about ADHD and shorter lifespan isn't as scary as it seems
• The most common risk factors associated with unmanaged ADHD
• How early diagnosis and lifestyle strategies can mitigate long-term health risks
• Tips for supporting a loved one with ADHD in a compassionate, empowering way
• Why ADHD is often misunderstood—and why we’re still underdiagnosing it, especially in women

Connect with  Dr. Jessica S...

Key Takeaways:

• Feeling drained, over-identifying with achievement, or struggling to disconnect from work.
• Symptoms like chronic fatigue, irritability, disconnection from joy, and lack of motivation can signal burnout rather than just stress.
• A balanced approach to achievement that aligns with your values and doesn’t deplete you.
• A powerful strategy to avoid overwhelm by sorting new projects and opportunities before committ...