Nurturing Your Highly Sensitive Energy
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If recent headlines are giving you headaches, listen in on this episode of the Awaken Your Wise Woman podcast, as host Elizabeth Cush talks about finding balance in an uncertain world. “Bringing your body, your energetic body, into the work, is so important.” — Biz Cush How are you doing? With so much going on in the world right now, it’s easy to feel for highly sensitive women to feel overwhelmed. In a political climate that feels so threatening to so many, it’s easy for the highly sensitive—especially the helpers, the healers, the empaths—to focus on caring for others and to...
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How to Have Challenging Conversations: When You're a Highly Sensitive Person
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As a highly sensitive person, do you avoid conflict? Listen in on this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman, as host welcomes executive coach and consultant Michelle Gladieux for conversation about communication challenges, conflict management and emotional intelligence. “The more interested or passionate we are about a topic, sometimes the more dangerous our words and tone can become.” — Michelle Gladieux When a work situation doesn’t sit right with you, do you speak up or hold your peace? What about when the boss wants to have a word with you? How do you handle disagreements with...
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Aligning Your Energy
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How’s your energy? Listen in on this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman, as host Elizabeth Cush welcomes energy expert Prune Harris for a talk about energy, community and connecting with hope. “When we realize that we are continually co-creating our human experience, then, wow, there's a lot that we can do energetically.” — Prune Harris What kind of energy are you absorbing? What kind of energy are you reflecting back out into the world? Are the choices that you make in each moment aligned with how you want to show up in this world? If not, how can you bring your energy into better...
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What Do You Want More of in Your Life?
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Happy New Year! In this episode of the Awaken Your Wise Woman podcast host Elizabeth Cush shares her take on New Year’s resolutions and offers listeners a guided meditation. “How I can bring more of the good and the positive into my life from last year to this year, and what I can either eliminate or set boundaries around in the past year that didn't sit right with me.” — Biz Cush Do you make New Year’s resolutions? Set intentions? Or dive into the new year figuring it out as you go? No matter how you approach it, the new year can be a good time to reflect on what’s...
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The Gifts of Sensitivity
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Do you put others’ needs before your own? In this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman, host Elizabeth Cush welcomes back April Snow, host of the Sensitive Stories podcast, for a talk about finding your hidden strengths and the gifts of sensitivity. “Would I change the fact that I'm sensitive? No way.” — April Snow When your environment sounds too loud, or the fabrics you’re wearing don’t feel right or you’re exhausted from trying to keep everyone around you happy, you might find yourself wishing that you weren’t highly sensitive. But if you weren’t highly sensitive, you...
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Challenges and Treasures of Sensitivity
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Do you view being highly sensitive as a negative? In this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman, host Elizabeth Cush welcomes back Keri Nola—matriarch of the Receptivity Portal for Healing Entrepreneurs—to talk about her journey from struggling with sensitivity to embracing it as a gift. “I used to really curse my sensitivity. It felt like such a negative thing, because it made navigating the world so hard.” — Keri Nola For so many women, being highly sensitive can feel like a burden, like a barrier to navigating the world. It doesn’t have to be. We don’t have to be at odds with...
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Living an Aligned Life as a Highly Sensitive Woman
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If the thought about taking care of yourself first doesn’t feel right, listen in on this episode of the Awaken Your Wise Woman podcast, as host Elizabeth Cush shares how she learned to live an aligned life that prioritizes her highly sensitive needs without feeling selfish. “I needed a path to go from here to the rest of my life.” — Biz Cush Are you living a life that meets your needs? Or are you consumed with meeting everyone else’s? Who—or what—are you living for? And why? Does it serve you? Or is it a way of hiding from something? For highly sensitive women, these questions...
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Embracing Your Sensitivity
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If you often feel that being a highly sensitive person is a handicap, listen to this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman, as host Elizabeth Cush talks with Brooke Neilsen Yang about embracing your sensitivity and coming home to yourself. “We tend to have abandoned ourselves by the time we're adults.” — Brooke Neilsen Yang If you grew up feeling ashamed of your sensitivity, you’re not alone. Chances are that you may have gotten signals from others, and maybe even those closes to you, that you were too sensitive, that you were overreacting, that what you were feeling wasn’t real....
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People Pleasing and Sensitivity
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Are you a people pleaser? In this episode of the Awaken Your Wise Woman podcast, host Elizabeth Cush talks about what happened when her people pleasing part was activated on a recent family vacation—and how she managed it. “I was noticing that my feelings of overwhelm were just building and building. But the reality was, I didn't really have a whole lot to be stressed about.” — Biz Cush Imagine that you’re on a vacation in a great place surrounded by loved ones. Yet, you feel stressed and unable to enjoy the experience because you’re constantly worrying about whether everyone...
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Growing up with Narcissistic Parents
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Are highly sensitive people more their environment? In this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman, host talks with Phoenix Gould about the profound impact of narcissistic parents on highly sensitive children and adults. “The narcissist demands that we pay attention to them. Our way of survival is to be highly attuned to their needs.” — Phoenix Gould If you’re a highly sensitive person (HSP), did you ever wonder how your childhood affected you and your sensitivities? Why does it seem so much easier to tune into others’ needs rather than your own? Why do emotions feel so...
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