Kate Johnson is an American meditation teacher and author focusing on mindfulness and awareness practices.
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In this video I provide my main takeaways from a recent workshop I attended with Dr. Elaine Aron and Alane Freund, LMFT on Self-Care for the Highly Sensitive Person.
In 1991 Dr. Elaine Aron identified the trait of high sensitivity. The trait occurs in 1 in 5 people and in over 100 other species. The foundation of the trait is DOES: HSPs are deep thinkers, they get easily overstimulated, have more empathy and notice subtleties more than others do.
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Empaths have so much to offer as healers, creatives, friends, lovers, and innovators at work. Yet highly sensitive and empathic people often give too much at the expense of their own well-being―and end up absorbing the stress of others.
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