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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How to Keep Overwhelm at Bay
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Navigating overstimulating environments can be a challenge for highly sensitive people. In this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman, host Elizabeth Cush talks with Martina Williams about coping strategies to manage your nervous system and walk comfortably in the world. “If you end up being in a really highly stimulating environment, make sure that you create space for quiet so you can begin to down-regulate.” — Martina Williams If you’re a highly sensitive person, you may have grown up feeling different. You may have been told that you’re too “too.” You may have had experiences...
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Sensitivity & Sacred Support
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Welcome back to the new season of the Awaken Your Wise Woman podcast! This week, host Elizabeth Cush reflects on her journey, talks about what’s in store for listeners and shares a guided meditation to help you get grounded. “I am really excited to welcome sensitive women to this sacred support circle.” — Biz Cush Where does time go? The summer flies by, you celebrate another birthday…. Now here you are, another year older and maybe another year wiser. Have you settled into your wisdom, or do you often feel overwhelmed? In this first episode of the brand-new season of the Awaken...
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Deepening Parts Work — Replay
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This week we’re replaying an episode from season one. Biz also gives updates on the group that starts this fall! You can find the .
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Midlife Friendships Replay
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This is a replay from October 2023. Have you thought about your friendships lately? Have they shifted as you’ve entered mid-life? Do the relationships you’ve had for a long time still enrich you, or do you finding yourself drawing away? Do you find yourself drawn to the same kinds of people, or are you looking for a different kind of friendship? In this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman, host Biz Cush, LCPC, a licensed professional therapist, founder of Progression Counseling in Annapolis, Md., and a life coach for highly sensitive women, shares her thoughts about friendships and finding...
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Overwhelmed and Highly Sensitive
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If you’re easily overwhelmed, listen to this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman as host Elizabeth Cush talks about highly sensitive women. “This part of me that just gets overwhelmed feels probably like I'm in third grade.” — Biz Cush Sometimes you just need a break—but we don’t always give ourselves permission to do that, even though we might need some extra time to process information or emotions. We might just need to rest. It’s important for everyone, no matter what we do, but for some of us it’s absolutely essential. As the Awaken Your Wise Woman podcast heads into its...
info_outlineIf you’ve reached midlife, you know that your body has changed. So has your partner’s. For one, things don’t work the same way they did in your younger days. How has that affected your sex life? And if your sex life isn’t great for one or both of you, how has that affected your relationship? And what can you do about it? In this episode of the Awaken Your Wise Woman podcast, host Elizabeth Cush, LCPC, a licensed professional therapist, founder of Progression Counseling in Annapolis, Md., and a mid-life women’s life coach, welcomes Dr. Deb Shine Valentine, a licensed clinical psychotherapist and a certified sex therapist for an open and unencumbered discussion about sex and intimacy as we grow older. They talk about challenges to physical intimacy that midlife couples face and how to address them in order to have a closer and more fulfilling relationship on every level at any age.
“You can tell your partner how to load the dishwasher. How come you can’t tell them what to do sexually?”
— Heather England
You can find the full show notes and links to all the episodes here.