The Highly Sensitive Person Podcast

Episode 16 of the Highly Sensitive Person Podcast is about High Sensation Seeking HSPs. You have no idea how many times I had to edit myself saying that mouthful of words incorrectly in this episode.

HSPs are careful and evaluate everything around them thoroughly. But those who are also High Sensation Seekers crave excitement, arousal, and new experiences (not necessarily extreme stuff like skydiving or bungee jumping, mind you.) How can those two traits co-exist in the same person?! I think it's an interesting concept.

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Mentioned on this episode: Take the test to see if you are a high sensation seeker

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Podcast music attribution: By the Coast (2004) (Antony Raijekov) / CC BY-NC 2.5
Direct download: 16-_High_Sensation_Seeking.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:15pm PDT

15: Needing Control

Episode 15 of the Highly Sensitive Person Podcast is about control. It wasn't until I started writing about all my HSP stuff that I realized so many of the things that bothered me were about a lack of control. From working in a cubicle, to a fear of flying, to drop-in tennis, I outline the sneaky ways needing control is in my life.

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Mentioned on this episode: What would Aristotle do? The fear of losing control

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Podcast music attribution: By the Coast (2004) (Antony Raijekov) / CC BY-NC 2.5
Direct download: 15-_Needing_control.mp3
Category:health -- posted at: 11:27pm PDT

Episode 14 of the Highly Sensitive Person Podcast is about empathy, which is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another being. I talk about wondering if Muay Thai fighters are lonely or sad, and crying about the tragedies of people I don't think I have a right to be that sad about.

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Mentioned on this episode: Dr. Elaine Aron's empathy brain study

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Podcast music attribution: By the Coast (2004) (Antony Raijekov) / CC BY-NC 2.5
Direct download: 14-_So._Much._Empathy..mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 3:10pm PDT

In Episode 13 of the Highly Sensitive Person Podcast, I tell a story about obsessing over sliced vs. non-sliced challah bread. Will I ruin dinner? Or will everything be fine? The suspense is riveting.

Then I cleverly segue into decision-making: HSPs analyze details in an effort to make good decisions, but sometimes this can turn into over-analysis, and analysis paralysis. The trick is to catch yourself doing this, and ask yourself, "If I'm wrong, what's the worst that can happen?"

(And relax: there will be no "challah" and "holla" puns in this episode. Promise.)

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Podcast music attribution: By the Coast (2004) (Antony Raijekov) / CC BY-NC 2.5
Direct download: HSP_ep13_Obsessing_over_decisions.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 3:45pm PDT

12: Beauty Threshold

Highly sensitive people are often deeply moved by beauty in art and nature. This is a pretty cool aspect of being an HSP.

In Episode 12 of the Highly Sensitive Person Podcast, I talk about interesting stuff like Stedhal Syndrome and the beauty threshold.

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Podcast music attribution: By the Coast (2004) (Antony Raijekov) / CC BY-NC 2.5
Direct download: HSP_ep12_beauty.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:32pm PDT

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