Am I Too Sensitive? - Interview With Highly Sensitive Person Coach Clare Kumar

Are you someone who’s been told you are too sensitive and feel ashamed because you think you should be stronger?

Have you heard of a highly sensitive person or HSP? Did you know it had links with ADHD?

Host of the Happy Space podcast, and highly sensitive executive coach Clare Kumar talks with Paul about being a highly sensitive person explaining both the advantages and challenges. She also discusses the huge value and solutions that highly sensitive people have to offer to the world, listen in to this informative episode and learn more

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• It’s a personality temperament and way of being where your nervous systems are highly responsive and perceptive
• You need to honour your sensitivity and design your life around being a HSP
• HSPs are emotionally responsive creative thinkers who very quickly join the dots
• Being a HSP can have both advantages and challenges
• Sensitivity and tenderness are traits that are important for leadership
• Coming together in the workplace should be intentional planned connection and collaboration
• HSPs, as chief noticers in the world, see the dots and have rich solutions to offer the world
• You can advocate to change the culture in the world around you and beyond
• The starting point is to feel seen and valued, as a HSP, recognise your strength and hold on to its value
• Everybody deserves a happy space
• If the people designing and shaping the world we live in design for the sensitive then they will be designing for everybody
• Neuro sensitivity should be considered as part of inclusivity
• Tune in before you lean in when deciding on what your body needs to calm it

BEST MOMENTS

‘Recognising the goodness in the sensitivity and seeing it in its wholeness was very empowering’

‘They are out there inviting a more tender world’

‘If we know our boundaries we can defend them and hold onto our compassion’

RESOURCES FOR THIS EPISODE

www.happyspacepod.com for free resources

HSP Quiz - direct link - https://clarekumar.com/hsp-quiz/

HSP Community - Happy Space Pod - direct link - https://www.facebook.com/groups/happyspacepod

Happy Space Podcast - direct link - https://clarekumar.com/podcast/

www.clarekumar.com

Blog - https://clarekumar.com/blog/

Media - scroll down - www.clarekumar.com/media

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Mindset Change Podcast

Mindset Coaching and Therapy

The Mindset Coach UK Instagram

Mindset Change YouTube

ABOUT THE HOST

Paul Sheppard

Paul is well known for his holistic therapy and coaching approach when working with anxiety, stress, confidence, and motivation, understanding, and treating the root causes and surrounding issues

He has a passion for understanding how the mind works and has been trained in many therapies. He is an Integrative Hypnotherapist, Life Coach, NLP Practitioner, IEMT and has also had training in CBT, ACT and Mindfulness

His mission is to share with others the strategies, techniques and perspectives that can have the most positive impact on changing anxiety, stress, low confidence, depression, and motivation.

Working with your mind to become calmer, focused, motivated, confident, and resilient are skills everyone can develop and Paul offers a realistic, direct, and no-nonsense approach that is about creating the change you want to live the life you deserve

CONTACT METHOD

Mindset Coaching and Therapy

The Mindset Coach UK Instagram

Mindset Change YouTube