Jenna Avery is “The Life Coach for Sensitive Souls” – helping individuals recognize and more fully express their gifts as highly sensitive people.
In our interview, she talks about some of the challenges we may face in taking care of ourselves and living our purpose, such as being overly self-critical or not setting good self-care boundaries.
Hear the interview at Inner Talent Interviews
The Highly Sensitive Person, By Elaine N. Aron
Narrated by Barbara Caruso
Audiobook: The Highly Sensitive Person, By Elaine N. Aron
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The trait of high sensitivity is experienced by 15 to 20 percent of us. In this video are some quotes by and about Winona Ryder, Heath Ledger, Amy Brenneman, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway, and Ellen DeGeneres about their experience of sensitivity. Maybe you can relate to some of them.
“At least 50 million Americans have a finely tuned nervous system.”
Books by Ted Zeff, PhD :
Shrink Rap Radio audio podcast interview with Dr. Zeff
His site: www.drtedzeff.com
Source video: Highly Sensitive People: Coping Strategies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raN8mvJA_Xo
Related posts :
Our High Sensitivity Personality – a video
Video: The Highly Sensitive Person by Therese J. Borchard
Video: Elaine Aron on the trait of high sensitivity
A recent news item by ScienceDaily reported on research that may explain more about the neuroscience that underlies high sensitivity.
“Researchers have discovered that a primitive region of the brain responsible for sensorimotor control also has an important role in regulating emotional responses to threatening situations.
“This region appears to work in concert with another structure called the amygdala to regulate social and emotional behavior.”
The story explains, “Georgetown University Medical Center researchers have recently discovered that activation of a primitive brain region, the deep layers of superior colliculus (DLSC), elicits defensive behaviors such as an exaggerated startle, hypervigilance, cowering, and escape…. in addition to triggering defensive behaviors, the activation of DLSC leads to a decrease in affiliative social interactions.”
Like mainstream media – and probably psychiatry in general – this news story was framed in terms of dysfunction: “Researchers say it is possible that a prolonged activation of this defense system may lead to emotional disorders” including post traumatic stress disorder and other anxiety disorders.
[From Two Brain Structures Key To Emotional Balance Especially In Threatening Situations, ScienceDaily (Oct. 23, 2009)]
As we know who have one, a highly sensitive nervous system is not necessarily a “disorder.”
