Highly Sensitive and Bipolar: Finding Stability, Identity, and Hope with Catherine Stratta

*This episode contains discussion about depression and suicide.Catherine Stratta shares her lived experience with bipolar disorder alongside high sensitivity, offering insight, hope, and practical tools for navigating both. From her early struggles with overwhelm to finding stability through medication, nervous system regulation, and holistic healing, this conversation highlights the importance of self-understanding, support, and compassion.Catherine also shares how her journey led her to support others through coaching, helping individuals better understand bipolar, regulate their nervous systems, and move toward a more stable and empowered life.Catherine shares:Living with bipolar disorder from a young age.The challenges of misdiagnosis and stigma. How medication supported her stability. Her journey through loss, illness, and healing. Exploring holistic modalities beyond medication. Why identity matters and you are not your diagnosis.Topics covered:High sensitivity and sensory overwhelm. Bipolar disorder and mood patterns. Nervous system regulation and anxiety. Breathwork, EFT, and vagal stimulation. Self-compassion and identity healing. Holistic approaches to mental health.About Catherine StrattaCatherine is an international coach and speaker, with over 50 years lived experience of anxiety, depression and bipolar disorder. She coaches and supports individuals and their families, friends, supporters and offers coaching to managers and employees in the workplace. She can also work with schools and offers informational presentations to both staff and pupils.Catherine has the HSP trait. She is also a 1/3 Projector, which means she is always looking into new techniques to help others in her work. She is currently working with quantum sound therapy, to become certified in voice code analysis so she can help people leave their anxiety and stress behind as they raise their vibration.Follow along on Catherine’s journey:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherine-stratta-bipolar-expert/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/movebeyondbipolar/Instagram: https://instagram.com/beyond_bipolar?igshid=YmtuOWJ5OGF1cm1wTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@move_beyondLet’s Connect:🤍 Share your biggest takeaway or follow us on Instagram @happyhsppodcast — we’d love to hear from you! 🎧 Subscribe and leave a review to help more HSPs find this space: thehappyhsppodcast.buzzsprout.com📩 Want to be a guest on the show? Reach out to Kimberly at: [email protected]📖 Learn about Kimberly’s work: happyhspcoaching.comAbout Kimberly:Kimberly Marshall is an ICF-certified Energy and Intuition coach for highly sensitive people (HSPs) and host of The Happy HSP Podcast. After 20 years in the publishing industry working for companies like Time Inc., Monster.com, and W. W. Norton, she left her corporate career to pursue work that better suited her HSP needs. She now help HSPs reconnect with their intuition, energy, and purpose so they can live gentle, soul-aligned lives. Through her work, Kimberly hopes to shed more light on the reality of living with high sensitivity and inspire more HSPs to embrace their empathetic, loving, and gentle natures. Hosted/produced by Kimberly MarshallEdited by Fonzie Try MediaArtwork by Tara Corola