Episode 85: The World Needs You to Thrive: Be Healthy, Balanced, and Productive with Julie and Willow
Show Notes
HSPs have the capability of making a huge difference in the world. In fact, we need more HSPs to step into heart-centered leadership roles and makers of positive change. Your heart and your gifts are needed. But if we don’t know how to take care of ourselves in the right ways we are doing a disservice to the world by not showing up thriving. Most of what we have been taught about self-care doesn’t work for us. Learning how to practice the right types of self-care and learn to take care of your sensitive nervous system is the key to thriving as an HSP and helping your gifts emerge to help the world. If a healer/leader/educator/parent is wilting and in survival mode, how much can they help another? HSPs need to do things differently. Getting it right, means you can have enough energy to take care of you, your family, your community, and even the world.
Self-care is NOT selfish.
NOT practicing the right type of self-care eventually hurts everyone.
Take turns at the front lines
Rest in between with self-compassion
Take control over what you can control
Understand what you cannot control
Slow down and listen internally the messages are there
Get inspired by others and learn tools
Be kind to yourself! Loving-kindness toward self is healing and gives you energy and vibrancy
When you are thriving you...
have more energy
use your gifts to contribute to the world
can be your best self
love life
follow your ambitions
understand, love & accept yourself
feel confident & secure
know your value
live in balance
have a positive, fulfilling life of joy authentically
reduce stress, overwhelm, anxiety
achieve life & career goals
are healthier
learn how to support your sensitive nervous system
feel in control of your life
learn how to self-regulate
improve your relationships
learn how to emotionally regulate
build greater internal resources & feel joy, happiness, calm and peace
get calmer
are kinder & more supportive of yourself
increase self-compassion
improve your mindset
learn how to set & keep healthy boundaries
get unstuck & remove obstacles
live a happier life
find balance
stop worrying & overthinking
know how to prepare for life changes
learn how to support yourself better
live life with intention
feel fully alive
are higher functioning to improve finances & live more comfortably
feel renewed & live in a tranquil flow of life
feel better
About the Hosts
Julie Bjelland is a sensitivity expert, licensed psychotherapist, and author of several books, and teaches the online course Brain Training for the Highly Sensitive Person, Techniques to Reduce Anxiety and Overwhelming Emotions, highly recommended by psychologists Tara Brach Ph.D., and Rick Hanson Ph.D. Julie’s brain training program has helped highly sensitive people (HSPs) around the world reduce their challenges, access their gifts, and discover their resiliency, inner strength, and significant value. Julie serves as the sensitivity expert for Dr. Hanson’s online program and is a member of the faculty of The Shift Network. Known for her ability to give people a sense of true support, Julie is featured on national media regularly and on a mission to empower sensitive people to live their best lives.
Highly sensitive people thrive quickly with the right tools and I have loved helping highly sensitive people (HSPs) around the world reduce anxiety and thrive to their fullest potential. The techniques I have developed come from years of working with highly sensitive people all over the world and have been extremely successful for the clients and students I work with. Our life gets a lot better and so does the life of those around us when we are thriving and your sensitive self is beautiful and valuable. We need you in the world. ~Julie
Willow McIntosh is the founder of Inluminance and leader of the High Sensory Intelligence movement. Unique circumstances during Willow’s childhood lead to the burying of his authentic self and complete misalignment to the work he was destined for. He began to carve his own path into understanding how people with sensory processing sensitivity can learn to use their genetic traits to their advantage. As an adult this lead to a lifelong enquiry and practise into learning powerful energetic alignment techniques to re-engage with the authentic self. Willow believes that all people with the trait have the ability to tap into a unique skill that draws on a deeper sensory perception. Founded in their own life experience and self development they have the capacity to facilitate great transformation and development in others. Willow is on a mission to awaken us to the responsibility we have to utilise the abilities it affords in business, governments and leadership. Having successfully facilitated the development of seven figure businesses Willow’s practise has taken him all over the world. Speaking internationally, training in a broad range of fields and facilitating others for more than twenty years. Willow now specialises in facilitating people with the trait to activate them into service in alignment with their gifts and purpose and to support them to take their own businesses to the next level towards automation and leadership.
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Resources & Links Mentioned in Episode
To take Julie’s free sensitivity quiz, explore her books and courses for the sensitive and learn tools to reduce the challenges and access your gifts, visit www.juliebjelland.com.
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