Highly Sensitive — Interdependent — Empowered

— As a highly sensitive and/or introverted person, we manage our emotions and reactions better when we are well-resourced. Well-resourced for sensitive people means we've had time to ourselves to develop self-awareness, self-discipline, and self-soothing as well as time with others to create trusting, safe, and loving relationships. Interdependence and being well-resourced go hand in hand. We arrive at interdependence by advancing along a maturity continuum. We move through the maturity continuum by passing in and out of stages of dependency and independence and ultimately landing in interdependence. Valeria Teles interviews Brenda Knowles — the author of "The Quiet Rise of Introverts: 8 Practices for Living and Loving in a Noisy World." Brenda Knowles and her website is where sensitive people and their loved ones learn to build emotional and relationship resilience. Brenda has written over 500 posts on introversion, relationships, anxiety, depression and parenting. She is trained in family mediation and child advocacy. To learn more about Brenda Knowles and her work, please visit: brendaknowles.com     — This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.