High Sensory Peoplewith Jane and Elisha

S2 E13 The Divine Grande Finale This is the last episode of the High Sensory People Podcast (at the time of writing, May 2024), although we may decide to do more sometime in the future. It doesn’t end here! There are lots of ways to stay in touch with us and to carry on exploring the HSP trait and your own high sensory intelligence. Just add yourselves to our mailing lists at our websites below. Or book a free discovery call to explore working with us.  Contact Elisha to explore more of your value and energetic self at elisha-may.com or her Instagram is @Iamelishamay Contact Jane to explore your spiritual connection, your alignment and authenticity, or your recovery and HSP integration at ⁠janeelizabethaston.com⁠ or on Instagram @janeelizabethaston Our new ventures…  Look out for Elisha May’s new – FREE to BE Podcast with Carmela Napoli – coming soon! https://www.elisha-may.com/free-to-be Jane is planning a new podcast with a more HSP-in-recovery focus later this year – follow her on Instagram for news on this @janeelizabethaston The Inluminance Community  Work with us at Inluminance, by joining the Identity Journey for HSPs To work with Elisha at Inluminance – sign up through this link To work with Jane at Inluminance – sign up through this link Or become a coach on the High Sensory Coaching Programme To be supported by Elisha, sign up through this link To be supported by Jane, sign up through this link    You’ll have the opportunity to be coached alongside those programmes by us. You'll also be able to meet our wonderful HSP colleagues and friends all over the world in the Inluminance Community. Bye for now... There won’t be any more episodes (for now - never say never…) But we would still appreciate it if you could like, share and review this podcast, to raise awareness of the HSP trait and High Sensory Intelligence.  Thank you to Elisha’s brother, Nathan Wills, for the wonderful original music. And finally, thank YOU for staying with us until now. We would love you to join us for the next chapters of our journey!        

Today, our topic is High Sensory Mothers. Neither of us have children, but we know that lots of our listeners do, and it’s a really important topic. So we are delighted to introduce our friend and coach colleague Karen Hunt who is the best person we know to help us start this discussion. In this episode we talk about High Sensory Mothers. As you might know if you’ve been listening here a while, neither of us have children, but we know that lots of our listeners do, and being an HSP and a mother is a really important topic. So we are delighted to introduce our friend and coach colleague Karen Hunt who is the best person we know to help us start this discussion. Karen is an HSP, a mother and a coach, and she specialises in working with other high sensory mothers. The best way to get in touch with Karen is to book a free call with her, and you can do this here: https://tidycal.com/karenjhunt/free-call-with-karen Reach out to Jane to explore your connection, alignment and authenticity, or your addiction recovery and HSP integration at ⁠janeelizabethaston.com⁠ Contact Elisha to explore more of your value and energetic self at ⁠elisha-may.com⁠ or her Instagram is @⁠elishamayhsp If you want to find out more about how to become be a High Sensory Coach like us, this link will take you to Inluminance where we trained with Willow McIntosh. Thank you to Elisha’s brother, Nathan Wills, for the wonderful original music.

Welcome to Season 2 of the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane and Elisha. We’re High Sensory People and we want inspire and empower all HSPs to own their amazing qualities and unique gifts. Today, we talk with Tim about his HSP journey, past, present and potential future. It was really exciting to have Tim on because he only recently found out he’s HSP, but he has been comfortable with his sensory awareness and abilities from a young age and also because he’s a guy, and a great example of how to be a man in ownership of the trait and the high sensory intelligence gifts that come with it. It was a really energising and inspiring conversation, and we hope you enjoy it too! You can find Tim’s podcast, the brilliantly named Roaming Returns here on buzzsprout, or on all the usual platforms, and his website is called Income Investing for Nomads Contact Elisha to explore more of your value and energetic self at elisha-may.com or her Instagram is @elishamayhsp Reach out to Jane to explore your connection, alignment and authenticity, or your addiction recovery and HSP integration at ⁠janeelizabethaston.com⁠ If you want to find out more about how to become be a High Sensory Coach like us, this link will take you to Inluminance where we trained with Willow McIntosh. Thank you to Elisha’s brother, Nathan Wills, for the wonderful original music.

Welcome to Season 2 of the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane and Elisha. We’re High Sensory People and we want inspire and empower all HSPs to own their amazing qualities and unique gifts. In this episode we talk about our recent experience of travelling to and living in a different country for three months. The highs, the lows, what we’d do differently and what we’ve learned from it, plus our recommendations and top tips for you if you’d like to plan a similar adventure… If you would like to help the many street cats on the island of Poros, you can donate to the GoFundMe appeal for the stray cats and kittens of Poros island, Greece It costs just €20 to neuter a male cat on the island, so a small donation can make a big difference in helping to prevent future suffering. Contact Elisha to explore more of your value and energetic self at elisha-may.com or her Instagram is @elishamayhsp Reach out to Jane to explore your connection, alignment and authenticity, or your 12 step and HSP integration at ⁠janeelizabethaston.com⁠ If you want to find out more about how to become be a High Sensory Coach like us, this link will take you to Inluminance where we trained with Willow McIntosh. Thank you to Elisha’s brother, Nathan Wills, for the wonderful original music.

Welcome to Season 2 of the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane and Elisha. We’re High Sensory People and we want inspire and empower all HSPs to own their amazing qualities and unique gifts. In this episode we talk about shame, and in particular, toxic shame. We talk about what toxic shame is and how it is difference from healthy shame. We talk about our experiences of toxic shame, the results and impact of living with this, and some of the things we have done to help us to heal and recover. The wonderful book, Healing the Shame That Binds You, by John Bradshaw was the inspiration for this episode.  Contact Elisha to explore more of your value and energetic self at elisha-may.com or her Instagram is @elishamayhsp Reach out to Jane to explore your connection, alignment and authenticity, or your 12 step and HSP integration at ⁠janeelizabethaston.com⁠ If you want to find out more about how to become be a High Sensory Coach like us, this link will take you to Inluminance where we trained with Willow McIntosh. Thank you to Elisha’s brother, Nathan Wills, for the wonderful original music.

Welcome to Season 2 of the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane and Elisha. We’re High Sensory People and we want inspire and empower all HSPs to own their amazing qualities and unique gifts. In this episode we talk about the/our inner child. Why is it important for us as HSPs to acknowledge our inner child, and how can we start to connect with this more? We talk about what the inner child concept means to us and when and how we have got in touch with our own inner child. Reach out to Jane to explore your connection, alignment and authenticity, or your 12 step and HSP integration at ⁠janeelizabethaston.com⁠ Contact Elisha to explore more of your value and energetic self at elisha-may.com or her Instagram is @elishamayhsp  If you want to find out more about how to become be a High Sensory Coach like us, this link will take you to Inluminance, which is where we trained with Willow McIntosh. Thank you to Elisha’s brother, Nathan Wills, for the wonderful original music.

Welcome to Season 2 of the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane and Elisha. We’re High Sensory People and we want inspire and empower all HSPs to own their amazing qualities and unique gifts. In this episode we talk about empathy and compassion, what we mean by empathy, why it’s such an important topic for HSPs, and why compassion is often better for us to focus on, compared to empathy, as well as our top tips to help get the balance of these right. Contact Elisha to explore more of your value and energetic self at elisha-may.com or her Instagram is @elishamayhsp Reach out to Jane to explore your connection, alignment and authenticity, or your 12 step and HSP integration at ⁠janeelizabethaston.com⁠ If you want to find out more about how to become be a High Sensory Coach like us, this link will take you to Inluminance, which is where we trained with Willow McIntosh. Thank you to Elisha’s brother, Nathan Wills, for the wonderful original music.  

Welcome to Season 2 of the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane and Elisha. We’re High Sensory People and we want inspire and empower all HSPs to own their amazing qualities and unique gifts. Today, we talk with Mandi St Clair about her HSP journey, past, present and what the near future holds. Mandi is from the UK like us, but we have spent time together here on the Greek island of Poros. It was an absolute gift to have her share some of her incredible story with us while she was here. Mandi is in her 60s and has had a couple of very challenging years, so we think this episode is both moving and deeply inspiring. We hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed making it. Contact Elisha to explore more of your value and energetic self at elisha-may.com or her Instagram is @elishamayhsp Reach out to Jane to explore your connection, alignment and authenticity, or your 12 step and HSP integration at ⁠janeelizabethaston.com⁠ If you want to find out more about how to become be a High Sensory Coach like us, this link will take you to Inluminance, which is where we trained with Willow McIntosh. Thank you to Elisha’s brother, Nathan Wills, for the wonderful original music.  

Welcome to Season 2 of the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane and Elisha. We’re High Sensory People and we want inspire and empower all HSPs to own their amazing qualities and unique gifts. Today, we talk about intuition. What is it and why is it important for HSPs to be aware of and attend to? We talk about how we see it and our experiences of feeling it – and using it, as well as ways to connect with it when we can feel uncertain about the right direction to take. Reach out to Jane to explore your connection, alignment and authenticity, or your 12 step and HSP integration at ⁠⁠janeelizabethaston.com⁠⁠  Contact Elisha to explore more of your value and energetic self at elisha-may.com or her Instagram is @elishamayhsp  If you want to find out more about how to become be a High Sensory Coach like us, this link will take you to Inluminance, which is where we trained with Willow McIntosh. Thank you to Elisha’s brother, Nathan Wills, for the wonderful original music.

Welcome to Season 2 of the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane and Elisha. We’re High Sensory People and we want inspire and empower all HSPs to own their amazing qualities and unique gifts. Today, we talk about how to manage our time well as HSPs, why it’s important, how we approach it, some of our challenges and successes along the way, and some of our top tips! Contact Elisha to explore more of your value and energetic self at elisha-may.com or her Instagram is @elishamayhsp  Reach out to Jane to explore your connection, alignment and authenticity, or your 12 step and HSP integration at ⁠janeelizabethaston.com⁠ If you want to find out more about how to become be a High Sensory Coach like us, this link will take you to Inluminance, which is where we trained with Willow McIntosh. Thank you to Elisha’s brother, Nathan Wills, for the wonderful original music.

Welcome to Season 2 of the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane and Elisha. We’re High Sensory People and we want inspire and empower all HSPs to own their amazing qualities and unique gifts.   Today, we talk with Carmela Napoli, who is an expert on Myers Briggs personality types (MBTI). Carmela talks about the most common HSP personality types, using Elisha and Jane as examples, and why knowing about our personality type can be really helpful for us as High Sensory People.   The values test we mention is at https://personalvalu.es/personal-values-test   Carmela is an incredible source of information and wisdom, so we will definitely be having Carmela back on our podcast. If you have any questions for Carmela in future then please let us know in the comments or Q&A below, or you can email us at [email protected]   Contact Elisha to explore more of your value and energetic self at elisha-may.com or her Instagram is @elishamayhsp   Reach out to Jane to explore your connection, alignment and authenticity, or your 12 step and HSP integration at ⁠janeelizabethaston.com⁠   If you want to find out more about how to become be a High Sensory Coach like us, this link will take you to Inluminance, which is where we trained with Willow McIntosh.   Thank you to Elisha’s brother, Nathan Wills, for the wonderful original music.

Welcome to Season 2 of the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane and Elisha. We’re High Sensory People and we want inspire and empower all HSPs to own their amazing qualities and unique gifts. Today, we’re with Lynne Napoli, who found out she’s a High Sensory Person when she was in her sixties. Lynne talks with us about the impact of this discovery, about her earlier life when she didn’t know about the trait, and about how she feels about the future now she knows that she's HSP. We’d love to hear your questions or comments, and we’d be so grateful if you could subscribe, review, and share this podcast. Please join us for next week’s episode when we’ll be talking with Myers Briggs (MBTI) personality type expert Carmela Napoli – who is also Lynne’s daughter! Reach out to Jane to explore your connection, alignment and authenticity, or your 12 step and HSP integration, at ⁠janeelizabethaston.com⁠ Contact Elisha to explore more of your value and energetic self, at elisha-may.com or her Instagram is @elishamayhsp  You can also get in touch with us at [email protected] If you want to find out more about how to become be a High Sensory Coach like us, this link will take you to Inluminance, which is where we trained with Willow McIntosh. Thank you to Elisha’s brother, Nathan Wills, for the wonderful original music.  

Welcome to Season 2 of the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane and Elisha. We’re High Sensory People and we want inspire and empower all HSPs to own their amazing qualities and unique gifts.   Today, we’re going to be talking about honouring our needs as HSPs, including what this means to us, and what we have learned about doing this along the way!     We’d love to hear your questions or comments, and we’d be so grateful if you could subscribe, review, and share this podcast.   Please join us for next week’s episode when we’ll be talking with our first guest of Season 2 about her experiences of finding out she is an HSP in her sixties.   If you want to contact Jane and Elisha you find out more, and book free discovery calls on their websites   Reach out to Jane to explore your connection, alignment and authenticity, or your 12 step and HSP integration, at janeelizabethaston.com   Contact Elisha to explore more of your value and energetic self, at elisha-may.com or her Instagram is @elishamayhsp   You can also get in touch with us at [email protected]   If you want to find out more about how to become be a High Sensory Coach like us, this link will take you to Inluminance, which is where we trained with Willow McIntosh.   Thank you to Elisha’s brother, Nathan Wills, for the wonderful original music.  

Welcome to Season 2 of the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane and Elisha. We’re High Sensory People and we want inspire and empower all HSPs to own their amazing qualities and unique gifts.   Today, we’re going to be discussing some of our top travel tips for HSPs, based on our current experience of travelling to and settling in Greece for a couple of months.     We’d love to hear your questions or comments, and we’d be so grateful if you could subscribe, review, and share this podcast.   Please join us for next week’s episode when we’ll be talking about how to honour our needs as High Sensory People.   Jane and Elisha each offer free discovery calls and you can book these via their websites below.   Jane works exclusively with HSPs and specialises in working with high sensory people in 12 step recovery, but you don’t have to be 12 step to work with Jane. Reach out via her website janeelizabethaston.com   Contact Elisha to explore more of your value and energetic self, at elisha-may.com or her Instagram is @elishamayhsp   You can also get in touch at [email protected]   If you want to find out more about how to become be a High Sensory Coach like us, this link will take you to Inluminance, which is where we trained with Willow McIntosh.   Thank you to Elisha’s brother, Nathan Wills, for the wonderful original music.  

Welcome to Season 2 of the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane and Elisha.   We’re High Sensory People and we want inspire and empower all HSPs to own their amazing qualities and unique gifts.   Today, we’re going to be talking about what we’ve been up to since Season 1 finished in December 2023.   We’ve temporarily relocated from our respective homes in Brighton and Western Super-Mare, UK, to somewhere in Europe... Listen to find out where we are!   We’d love to hear your questions or comments, and we’d be so grateful if you could subscribe, review, like, and share this podcast.   Please join us for next week’s episode when we’ll be talking about travel tips for HSPs   Jane and Elisha each offer free discovery calls and you can book these via their websites.   Jane works exclusively with HSPs and specialises in working with high sensory people in 12 step recovery but you don’t have to be 12 step to work with Jane. Reach out via her website janeelizabethaston.com or on Instgram @12stephsp   Contact Elisha to explore more of your value and energetic self, at elisha-may.com or her Instagram is @elishamayhsp   You can also get in touch with us at [email protected] and see our website at highsensorypeople.com   Thank you to Elisha’s brother, Nathan Wills, for the wonderful original music.  

Welcome to the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane Elizabeth Aston and Elisha May! We are High Sensory People, which means that like 20-30% of the world’s population, we were born with the genetic trait now referred to as High Sensory Intelligence®. The scientific name of the trait is Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) but it’s commonly known right now as being highly sensitive. We are passionate about raising awareness about the HSP trait and reframing it from being highly sensitive to High Sensory.  We hope you enjoy episode 30 of the High Sensory People podcast; the final episode in season 1. If you’ve been with us all the way, we can’t thank you enough for your support and we hope that you’ve enjoyed listening to our podcast as much as we’ve enjoyed recording it! In the last 2 episodes we talked about Christmas and New Year, firstly what it was like before we knew we were HSP, and last week we talked about the changes we’ve made to take care of ourselves better over the holiday season, since knowing about the trait. This week we’re getting right up to date, as Christmas really is just around the corner now and it’ll be 2024 before we know it. So we talk about how we’re planning to spend Christmas and New Year this year, and what we will be doing to honour our HSP selves. Thank you everyone so much for being with us on the first part of this journey! The HIGH SENSORY TRIBE online community is now open – although we’re taking a bit of a break over the holidays and wil be back in action in the New Year. But if you want to come in and orient yourself then do – it's free for the first month, and then just £10 (about $12) a month  – ⁠click here⁠. We would love to see you there! If you want to find out more about High Sensory Intelligence®, You can do the Inluminance test devised by Willow McIntosh here  You can find lots of information about being HSP and do the original HSP test on Dr. Elaine Aron’s website. Thank you so much for joining us! If you have any comments, questions, or ideas for future episodes, we’d love to hear from you. And please subscribe, like and review our podcast! You can also get in touch with us at [email protected]  Find out more about us and the work we do at highsensorypeople.com    janeelizabethaston.com and elisha-may.com Thank you to Nathan Wills for the wonderful original music. 

Welcome to the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane Elizabeth Aston and Elisha May! We are High Sensory People, which means that like 20-30% of the world’s population, we were born with the genetic trait now referred to as High Sensory Intelligence®. The scientific name of the trait is Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) but it’s commonly known right now as being highly sensitive. We are passionate about raising awareness about the HSP trait and reframing it from being highly sensitive to High Sensory.  We are ending Season 1 of this Podcast with a three-part guide to the holiday season. In part 1 last week we talked about ‘Christmas past’ - Christmas and NY before we knew about the HSP trait.This week we chat about how things have changed for us and the changes we have instigated over Christmas and New Year, since knowing about the HSP trait and what we need to do to look after ourselves appropriately. We hope sharing our experiences will help you navigate your holiday season this year! The HIGH SENSORY TRIBE online community is now open – although we’re taking a bit of a break over the holidays and wil be back in action in the New Year. But if you want to come in and orient yourself the do – it's free for the first month, and then just £10 (about $12) a month  – ⁠click here⁠. We would love to see you there! If you want to find out more about High Sensory Intelligence®, You can do the Inluminance test devised by Willow McIntosh here  You can find lots of information about being HSP and do the original HSP test on Dr. Elaine Aron’s website. Thank you so much for joining us! If you have any comments, questions, or ideas for future episodes, we’d love to hear from you. And please subscribe, like and review our podcast! You can also get in touch with us at [email protected]  Find out more about us and the work we do at highsensorypeople.com    janeelizabethaston.com and elisha-may.com Thank you to Nathan Wills for the wonderful original music. 

Welcome to the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane Elizabeth Aston and Elisha May! We are High Sensory People, which means that like 20-30% of the world’s population, we were born with the genetic trait now referred to as High Sensory Intelligence®. The scientific name of the trait is Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) but it’s commonly known right now as being highly sensitive. We are passionate about raising awareness about the HSP trait and reframing it from being highly sensitive to High Sensory.  In this week’s episode, and with Christmas 2023 and New Year just around the corner, we start off our three part series on the holiday season. We’ll be talking about holiday seasons past, present and future, including what Christmas and new Year used to look like for us before we knew about the HSP trait, and how things have changed since then. In this episode we’ll be looking at how things used to be, and why it was often challenging for us. Next week we’ll start to look at how knowing about the high sensory trait helped us to manage our holiday season differently, so we could enjoy everything more. The HIGH SENSORY TRIBE online community is now open!! It's free to join for the first month, and then just £10 (about $12) a month  – ⁠click here⁠. We would love to see you there! If you want to find out more about High Sensory Intelligence®, You can do the Inluminance test devised by Willow McIntosh here  You can find lots of information about being HSP and do the original HSP test on Dr. Elaine Aron’s website. Thank you so much for joining us! If you have any comments, questions, or ideas for future episodes, we’d love to hear from you. And please subscribe, like and review our podcast! You can also get in touch with us at [email protected]  Find out more about us and the work we do at highsensorypeople.com    janeelizabethaston.com and elisha-may.com Thank you to Nathan Wills for the wonderful original music. 

Welcome to the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane Elizabeth Aston and Elisha May! We are High Sensory People, which means that like 20-30% of the world’s population, we were born with the genetic trait now referred to as High Sensory Intelligence®. The scientific name of the trait is Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) but it’s commonly known right now as being highly sensitive. We are passionate about raising awareness about the HSP trait and reframing it from being highly sensitive to High Sensory.  In this week’s episode we talk about addiction in part 3 of our three episode series on this. It’s an important topic and we have quite different experiences of it. Over the last two weeks, Eloish and Jane have told their very different stories of how drinking became a problem for them, and how they overcame this. This week we talk about what addiction and compulsion can look like for HSPs – and whether it might manifest a little differently to how it looks for non-HSPs? Based on our own experience, we have a few suggestions of things to try and places to go for support if you are struggling with alcohol, drugs, or any other addiction.  Places to go for help or to provide support include: THERAPY, COACHING AND WELLBEING SUPPORT Therapists, especially those specialising in trauma and addiction – Elisha found that therapy helped her to recover from grey area drinking. High Sensory coaching – this can help support the huge changes we need to make to overcome addiction and compulsion. Acupuncture – Jane has found this very helpful in supporting her while working her 12 step recovery programme Massage, and all manner of self care 12 STEP FELLOWSHIPS Jane has worked through a number of different 12 step recovery programs to tackle various addictive and compulsive behaviours. They are a wonderful, completely free resource, they are organisations with a spiritual focus, but they are not religious in any way.  Here are some of the most popular ones: Alcoholics Anonymous https://www.aa.org/ Narcotics Anonymous https://www.aa.org/ Marijuana Anonymous https://marijuana-anonymous.org/ Overeaters Anonymous https://oa.org/ Codependents Anonymous https://coda.org/ Adult Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families https://adultchildren.org/ Debtors Anonymous https://debtorsanonymous.org/ Workaholics Anonymous https://workaholics-anonymous.org/ Underearners Anonymous https://www.underearnersanonymous.org/ And for those with family members in addiction or alcoholism, Al-Anon is a good place to seek support https://al-anon.org/ and there is an equivalent for those with family members in addiction https://www.nar-anon.co.uk/ THE 12 STEP HSP NEW ONLINE COURSE Jane is currently piloting her exciting new online course called The 12 Step HSP: The basic guide to being a High Sensory Person in 12 step recovery. This will be released worldwide early in 2024 so to find out more and be the first to know about the full release of the course, visit Jane’s website and sign up for her mailing list at janeelizabethaston.com  The HIGH SENSORY TRIBE online community is now open!! It's free to join for the first month, and then just £10 (about $12) a month  – ⁠click here⁠. We would love to see you there! If you want to find out more about High Sensory Intelligence®, You can do the Inluminance test devised by Willow McIntosh here  You can find lots of information about being HSP and do the original HSP test on Dr. Elaine Aron’s website. Thank you so much for joining us! If you have any comments, questions, or ideas for future episodes, we’d love to hear from you. And please subscribe, like and review our podcast! You can also get in touch with us at [email protected]  Find out more about us and the work we do at highsensorypeople.com    janeelizabethaston.com and elisha-may.com Thank you to Nathan Wills for the wonderful original music. 

Welcome to the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane Elizabeth Aston and Elisha May! We are High Sensory People, which means that like 20-30% of the world’s population, we were born with the genetic trait now referred to as High Sensory Intelligence®. The scientific name of the trait is Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) but it’s commonly known right now as being highly sensitive. We are passionate about raising awareness about the HSP trait and reframing it from being highly sensitive to High Sensory.  In this week’s episode we talk about addiction in part 2 of our three episode series on this. It’s an important topic and we have quite different experiences of it. Last week Elisha told her story of problem drinking / alcohol dependence and how she overcame it. This week Jane shares her story, and talks about the long-term use of alcohol and drugs  that got her into 12 step recovery. Twice. We think it’s important to share our stories, because other HSPs may relate and find it helpful to know that if you’re in trouble due to addiction of any kind, you are not alone, and that change is possible.  The HIGH SENSORY TRIBE online community is now open!! It's free to join for the first month, and then just £10 (about $12) a month  – ⁠click here⁠. We would love to see you there! If you want to find out more about High Sensory Intelligence®, You can do the Inluminance test devised by Willow McIntosh here  You can find lots of information about being HSP and do the original HSP test on Dr. Elaine Aron’s website. Thank you so much for joining us! If you have any comments, questions, or ideas for future episodes, we’d love to hear from you. And please subscribe, like and review our podcast! You can also get in touch with us at [email protected]  Find out more about us and the work we do at highsensorypeople.com    janeelizabethaston.com and elisha-may.com Thank you to Nathan Wills for the wonderful original music. 

Welcome to the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane Elizabeth Aston and Elisha May! We are High Sensory People, which means that like 20-30% of the world’s population, we were born with the genetic trait now referred to as High Sensory Intelligence®. The scientific name of the trait is Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) but it’s commonly known right now as being highly sensitive. We are passionate about raising awareness about the HSP trait and reframing it from being highly sensitive to High Sensory.  In this week’s episode we talk about addiction. This is a huge topic and we both have personal experience of it too. We think it’s important to share our stories, because other HSPs may relate and find it helpful to know they are not alone, and that change is possible. This week Elisha talks about her problem drinking, what triggered it and how she turned things around. Next week Jane will talk about the drinking and drug use that got her into 12 step recovery. The HIGH SENSORY TRIBE online community is now open!! It's free to join for the first month, and then just £10 (about $12) a month  – ⁠click here⁠. We would love to see you there! If you want to find out more about High Sensory Intelligence®, You can do the Inluminance test devised by Willow McIntosh here  You can find lots of information about being HSP and do the original HSP test on Dr. Elaine Aron’s website. Thank you so much for joining us! If you have any comments, questions, or ideas for future episodes, we’d love to hear from you. And please subscribe, like and review our podcast! You can also get in touch with us at [email protected]  Find out more about us and the work we do at highsensorypeople.com    janeelizabethaston.com and elisha-may.com Thank you to Nathan Wills for the wonderful original music. 

Welcome to the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane Elizabeth Aston and Elisha May! We are High Sensory People, which means that like 20-30% of the world’s population, we were born with the genetic trait now referred to as High Sensory Intelligence®. The scientific name of the trait is Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) but it’s commonly known right now as being highly sensitive. We are passionate about raising awareness about the HSP trait and reframing it from being highly sensitive to High Sensory.  In this week’s episode, we talk about relationships and how to manage them as High Sensory People. It's such a huge topic including, for example, relationships with friends, partners, family, colleagues, and animals – which might be among the least challenging sometimes! We plan to return to many of these relationship types in future episodes, and we might even invite a guest or two to talk about relationships with children – since we don’t have any we’re not the best people to shed any insight here:) The HIGH SENSORY TRIBE online community is now open!! It's free to join for the first month, and then just £10 (about $12) a month  – ⁠click here⁠. We would love to see you there! If you want to find out more about High Sensory Intelligence®, You can do the Inluminance test devised by Willow McIntosh here  You can find lots of information about being HSP and do the original HSP test on Dr. Elaine Aron’s website. Thank you so much for joining us! If you have any comments, questions, or ideas for future episodes, we’d love to hear from you. And please subscribe, like and review our podcast! You can also get in touch with us at [email protected]  Find out more about us and the work we do at highsensorypeople.com    janeelizabethaston.com and elisha-may.com Thank you to Nathan Wills for the wonderful original music. 

Welcome to the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane Elizabeth Aston and Elisha May! We are High Sensory People, which means that like 20-30% of the world’s population, we were born with the genetic trait now referred to as High Sensory Intelligence®. The scientific name of the trait is Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) but it’s commonly known right now as being highly sensitive. We are passionate about raising awareness about the HSP trait and reframing it from being highly sensitive to High Sensory.  In this week’s episode we talk about energetic boundaries for High Sensory People, following on from last week’s episode about boundaries of all kinds. So what do we mean by energetic boundaries? We talk about this, as well as our experiences of how we know we need them, and some of the ways we can create energetic boundaries to keep ourselves well and safe. The HIGH SENSORY TRIBE online community is now open!! It's free to join for the first month, and then just £10 (about $12) a month  – ⁠click here⁠. We would love to see you there! If you want to find out more about High Sensory Intelligence®, You can do the Inluminance test devised by Willow McIntosh here  You can find lots of information about being HSP and do the original HSP test on Dr. Elaine Aron’s website. Thank you so much for joining us! If you have any comments, questions, or ideas for future episodes, we’d love to hear from you. And please subscribe, like and review our podcast! You can also get in touch with us at [email protected]  Find out more about us and the work we do at highsensorypeople.com    janeelizabethaston.com and elisha-may.com Thank you to Nathan Wills for the wonderful original music. 

Welcome to the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane Elizabeth Aston and Elisha May! We are High Sensory People, which means that like 20-30% of the world’s population, we were born with the genetic trait now referred to as High Sensory Intelligence®. The scientific name of the trait is Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) but it’s commonly known right now as being highly sensitive. We are passionate about raising awareness about the HSP trait and reframing it from being highly sensitive to High Sensory.  In this week’s episode we talk about boundaries for High Sensory People. Firstly, what do we mean by boundaries, and why do we need them, especially as HSPs? We talk about different boundary styles, and because as HSPs we can often find it challenging to set healthy boundaries with others, we talk about our journeys with this, and share some of what we’ve learned along the way. The HIGH SENSORY TRIBE online community is now open!! It's free to join for the first month, and then just £10 (about $12) a month  – ⁠click here⁠. We would love to see you there! If you want to find out more about High Sensory Intelligence®, You can do the Inluminance test devised by Willow McIntosh here  You can find lots of information about being HSP and do the original HSP test on Dr. Elaine Aron’s website. Thank you so much for joining us! If you have any comments, questions, or ideas for future episodes, we’d love to hear from you. And please subscribe, like and review our podcast! You can also get in touch with us at [email protected]  Find out more about us and the work we do at highsensorypeople.com    janeelizabethaston.com and elisha-may.com Thank you to Nathan Wills for the wonderful original music. 

Welcome to the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane Elizabeth Aston and Elisha May! We are High Sensory People, which means that like 20-30% of the world’s population, we were born with the genetic trait now referred to as High Sensory Intelligence®. The scientific name of the trait is Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) but it’s commonly known right now as being highly sensitive. We are passionate about raising awareness about the HSP trait and reframing it from being highly sensitive to High Sensory.  In this week’s episode we talk about how to have fun as High Sensory People. In the past we might have found life difficult, so difficult in fact that having fun got lost somewhere along the way. And now when we try to have fun like non-HSPs, its just not very, well, fun. The fact is that as High Sensory People we often have fun in a wide range of ways, some of which aren’t considered to be fun by people who aren’t High Sensory! We talk about our journey to having fun in all sorts of ways, including the fun of simply being in the moment and seeing what happens… The HIGH SENSORY TRIBE online community is now open!! It's free to join for the first month, and then just £10 (about $12) a month  – ⁠click here⁠. We would love to see you there! If you want to find out more about High Sensory Intelligence®, You can do the Inluminance test devised by Willow McIntosh here  You can find lots of information about being HSP and do the original HSP test on Dr. Elaine Aron’s website. Thank you so much for joining us! If you have any comments, questions, or ideas for future episodes, we’d love to hear from you. And please subscribe, like and review our podcast! You can also get in touch with us at [email protected]  Find out more about us and the work we do at highsensorypeople.com    janeelizabethaston.com and elisha-may.com Thank you to Nathan Wills for the wonderful original music.

Welcome to the twentieth episode of the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane Elizabeth Aston and Elisha May! We are High Sensory People, which means that like 20-30% of the world’s population, we were born with the genetic trait now referred to as High Sensory Intelligence®. The scientific name of the trait is Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) but it’s commonly known right now as being highly sensitive. We are passionate about raising awareness about the HSP trait and reframing it from being highly sensitive to High Sensory.  In this week’s episode we talk about our value as High Sensory People, following on from last week’s episode about our values. It’s so important to understand that the High Sensory trait has provided each of us with unique value; ways of being, thinking, doing, seeing and knowing, and these gifts set us apart from non-HSPs. In the past this might have felt like a disadvantage, but it’s actually a huge benefit to us and others, as long as we consciously take ownership of it!  The HIGH SENSORY TRIBE online community is now open!! It's free to join for the first month, and then just £10 (about $12) a month  – ⁠click here⁠. We would love to see you there! If you want to find out more about High Sensory Intelligence®, You can do the Inluminance test devised by Willow McIntosh here  You can find lots of information about being HSP and do the original HSP test on Dr. Elaine Aron’s website. Thank you so much for joining us! If you have any comments, questions, or ideas for future episodes, we’d love to hear from you. And please subscribe, like and review our podcast! You can also get in touch with us at [email protected]  Find out more about us and the work we do at highsensorypeople.com    janeelizabethaston.com and elisha-may.com Thank you to Nathan Wills for the wonderful original music. 

Welcome to the nineteenth episode of the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane Elizabeth Aston and Elisha May! We are High Sensory People, which means that like 20-30% of the world’s population, we were born with the genetic trait now referred to as High Sensory Intelligence®. The scientific name of the trait is Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) but it’s commonly known right now as being highly sensitive. We are passionate about raising awareness about the HSP trait and reframing it from being highly sensitive to High Sensory.  In this week’s episode we talk about our values and our value as High Sensory People. What do we mean by values, and why is knowing these important for us as High Sensory People? We talk about how our values have changed over time and why we find is helpful to know what our values are. We also touch on the topic of our value as High Sensory People, because this is important too. We will be covering more on that in next week’s episode!   The values test we talk about is free, takes about 10 minutes and is available at: https://personalvalu.es/   The HIGH SENSORY TRIBE online community is now open!! It's free to join for the first month, and then just £10 (about $12) a month  – ⁠click here⁠. We would love to see you there!   If you want to find out more about High Sensory Intelligence®, You can do the Inluminance test devised by Willow McIntosh here   You can find lots of information about being HSP and do the original HSP test on Dr. Elaine Aron’s website.   Thank you so much for joining us!   If you have any comments, questions, or ideas for future episodes, we’d love to hear from you. And please subscribe, like and review our podcast!   You can also get in touch with us at [email protected] Find out more about us and the work we do at highsensorypeople.com    janeelizabethaston.com and elisha-may.com   Thank you to Nathan Wills for the wonderful original music.   

Welcome to the eighteenth episode of the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane Elizabeth Aston and Elisha May! We are High Sensory People, which means that like 20-30% of the world’s population, we were born with the genetic trait now referred to as High Sensory Intelligence®. The scientific name of the trait is Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) but it’s commonly known right now as being highly sensitive. We are passionate about raising awareness about the HSP trait and reframing it from being highly sensitive to High Sensory.  In this week’s episode we talk about why it’s important to be in our truth and be our authentic selves. This is especially important for us as High Sensory People because its so painful when we are not, but it can also be especially difficult when we grow up in a world that often didn’t understand us, or suit us very well. We are so excited to announce that the HIGH SENSORY TRIBE online community is open from 22nd September 2023, and it's free to join for the first month. Click here to join the High Sensory Tribe We would love to see you there soon! You can do the Inluminance test for High Sensory Intelligence® devised by Willow McIntosh here We are eternally grateful to Dr. Elaine Aron for all of her research and for bringing this trait to the attention of the world. You can find out more and do the original HSP test on Dr. Elaine Aron’s website. Thank you so much for joining us! If you have any comments, questions, or ideas for future episodes, we’d love to hear from you. And please subscribe, like and review our podcast! You can also get in touch with us at [email protected] Find out more about us and the work we do at janeelizabethaston.com and elisha-may.com and at highsensorypeople.com Thank you to Nathan Wills for the wonderful original music.

*Apologies for the sound quality of this episode - we were outside and it was a bit windy at times. We will get a better mic for next time!* Welcome to the seventeenth episode of the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane Elizabeth Aston and Elisha May! This week we were on location again. It was wonderful to be together, but apologies for the background noise in some places.  We are High Sensory People, which means that like 20-30% of the world’s population, we were born with the genetic trait now referred to as High Sensory Intelligence®. The scientific name of the trait is Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) but it’s commonly known right now as being highly sensitive. We are passionate about raising awareness about the HSP trait and reframing it from being highly sensitive to High Sensory.  Today we talk about how to stay in our truth in a world that’s not set up for High Sensory People, and we share some of our top tips for getting started. You can do the Inluminance test for High Sensory Intelligence® devised by Willow McIntosh here  You can do the original HSP test on Dr. Elaine Aron’s website. Thank you so much for joining us! If you have any comments, questions, or ideas for future episodes, we’d love to hear from you. And please subscribe, like and review our podcast! You can also get in touch with us at [email protected]  Find out more about us and the work we do at janeelizabethaston.com and elisha-may.com Thank you to Nathan Wills for the wonderful original music. 

*Apologies for the sound quality of this episode - we were outside and it was a bit windy at times. We will get a better mic next time!* Welcome to the sixteenth episode of the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane Elizabeth Aston and Elisha May! We are High Sensory People, which means that like 20-30% of the world’s population, we were born with the genetic trait now referred to as High Sensory Intelligence®. The scientific name of the trait is Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) but it’s commonly known right now as being highly sensitive. We are passionate about raising awareness about the HSP trait and reframing it from being highly sensitive to High Sensory.  In this week’s episode we talk about the work we do as High Sensory Leaders and Coaches, and why it’s so important to us.  This week we were on location. It was wonderful to be together, but apologies for the background noise in some places.  If you listened to last week’s episode, you’ll know that we trained to be High Sensory Coaches with Willow McIntosh at Inluminance. If you’re interested in finding out more about the coaching programme this link will take you straight there. If you have any comments, questions, or ideas for future episodes, we’d love to hear from you. And please subscribe, like and review our podcast! You can also get in touch with us at [email protected]  Find out more about us and the work we do at janeelizabethaston.com and elisha-may.com Thank you to Nathan Wills for the wonderful original music. 

Welcome to the fifteenth episode of the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane Elizabeth Aston and Elisha May! We are High Sensory People, which means that like 20-30% of the world’s population, we were born with the genetic trait now referred to as High Sensory Intelligence®. The scientific name of the trait is Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) but it’s commonly known right now as being highly sensitive. We are passionate about raising awareness about the HSP trait and reframing it from being highly sensitive to High Sensory.  In this week’s episode we talk about the High Sensory Coaching programme that we did with Willow McIntosh at Inluminance, and how it changed us forever! If you’re interested in finding out more about the programme this link will take you straight there. We’ll be talking about the work we do as High Sensory Coaches on the show next week. If you have any comments, questions, or ideas for future episodes, we’d love to hear from you. And please subscribe, like and review our podcast! You can also get in touch with us at [email protected]  Find out more about us and the work we do at janeelizabethaston.com and elisha-may.com Thank you to Nathan Wills for the wonderful original music. 

Welcome to the 14th episode of the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane Elizabeth Aston and Elisha May! We are High Sensory People, which means that like 20-30% of the world’s population, we were born with the genetic trait now referred to as High Sensory Intelligence®. The scientific name of the trait is Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) but it’s commonly known right now as being highly sensitive. We are passionate about raising awareness about the HSP trait and reframing it from being highly sensitive to High Sensory.  This episode is all about High Sensory Introverts. And since Elisha and I are both extroverts, we have two guests to help us, Alexander Hohmann and Dr Shireen Maluf, who are High Sensory Coaches, and introverts. It was a fascinating conversation and we are so grateful to our guests for sharing their experiences so eloquently. Alexander Hohmann is a life & business coach working especially, but not exclusively with people who are either HSP, or gifted, or both like himself. His work is guided by both intuition and a toolbox filled with elements from various Systemic Therapy forms and Acceptance & Commitment Therapy. He works both online and in his practice located in the city of Freiburg, at the foothills of the Black Forest in Southwestern Germany. Having grown up mostly in France and still living only 30 km away from it, he offers his coaching in French, German and English. You can find his website, blog, and full contact information in all three languages here: https://www.alexander-hohmann.com/   Dr. Shireen Maluf, Healing, Coaching & Consulting. I facilitate high functioning sensitive leaders and individuals to help them get unstuck from their minds and catalyze an authentic coherence within their hearts, using my exclusive three-step Monarch Heart-Coherence Methodology. This empowers them to unleash their heightened sensory gifts, cultivate their genuine strength, and create the reality that matters to them. And I do this in three languages English/French and Arabic. I am also Doctor of Musicology, Certified Erickson and High Sensory Coach, Medicine Woman and Speaker. Available for Interviews, Speaking & Private Clients. Visit ShireenMaluf.com. You can do the test for High Sensory Intelligence® devised by Willow McIntosh at Inluminance and Julie Bjelland’s HSP test is here. Thank you so much for joining us. If you have any comments, questions, or ideas for future episodes, we’d love to hear from you. And please subscribe, like and review our podcast! You can also get in touch with us at [email protected]  Find out more about us and the work we do at janeelizabethaston.com and elisha-may.com Thank you to Nathan Wills for the wonderful original music.

Welcome to the thirteenth episode of the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane Elizabeth Aston and Elisha May! We are High Sensory People, which means that like 20-30% of the world’s population, we were born with the genetic trait now referred to as High Sensory Intelligence®. The scientific name of the trait is Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) but it’s commonly known right now as being highly sensitive. We are passionate about raising awareness about the HSP trait and reframing it from being highly sensitive to High Sensory.  This week’s episode is the second part of our talk about extroversion vs introversion and the High Sensory trait. You can find the first part of our discussion in episode 11.  Because HSPs tend to need a lot of time alone to recharge from a world that we find very overwhelming, it’s tempting to believe that we’re all introverts. However, the psychologist who discovered the highly sensitive trait, Dr. Elaine Aron, estimates that about 30 percent of HSPs are actually extroverts.  If you’re looking for the other HSP adult tests, you can do the test for High Sensory Intelligence® devised by Willow McIntosh at Inluminance and Julie Bjelland’s HSP test is here. Thank you so much for joining us! If you have any comments, questions, or ideas for future episodes, we’d love to hear from you. And please subscribe, like and review our podcast! You can also get in touch with us at [email protected]  Find out more about us and the work we do at janeelizabethaston.com and elisha-may.com Thank you to Nathan Wills for the wonderful original music. 

Welcome to the twelfth episode of the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane Elizabeth Aston and Elisha May!  This week we are joined by our first, very special guest, Willow McIntosh, who trained us to become High Sensory Coaches. Our topic is High Sensory Men; why there are so few men who are visible as HSPs, and how we can help this to change. It’s a really wonderful discussion and we hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed recording it. Willow McIntosh is the founder of Inluminance and creator of the High Sensory Coaching Program. 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 led 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 as highly skilled coaches, facilitators, consultants and healers. If you have any comments, questions, or ideas for future episodes, we’d love to hear from you. And please subscribe, like and review our podcast! You can also get in touch with us at [email protected]  Find out more about us and the work we do at janeelizabethaston.com and elisha-may.com Thank you to Nathan Wills for the wonderful original music. 

Welcome to the 11th episode of the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane Elizabeth Aston and Elisha May! We are High Sensory People, which means that like 20-30% of the world’s population, we were born with the genetic trait now referred to as High Sensory Intelligence®. The scientific name of the trait is Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) but it’s commonly known right now as being highly sensitive. We are passionate about raising awareness about the HSP trait and reframing it from being highly sensitive to High Sensory.  In this week’s episode we talk about extroversion vs introversion and the High Sensory trait. Because HSPs tend to need a lot of time alone to recharge from a world that we find very overwhelming, it’s tempting to believe that we’re all introverts. However, the psychologist who discovered the highly sensitive trait, Dr. Elaine Aron, estimates that about 30 percent of HSPs are actually extroverts.  Jane and Elisha talk about how this fits with their experience. This is the first of (at least) two episodes on this topic! If you’re looking for the other HSP adult tests, you can do the test for High Sensory Intelligence® devised by Willow McIntosh at Inluminance and Julie Bjelland’s HSP test is here. Thank you so much for joining us! If you have any comments, questions, or ideas for future episodes, we’d love to hear from you. And please subscribe, like and review our podcast! You can also get in touch with us at [email protected]  Find out more about us and the work we do at janeelizabethaston.com and elisha-may.com Thank you to Nathan Wills for the wonderful original music. 

Welcome to the tenth episode of the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane Elizabeth Aston and Elisha May! We are so grateful to everyone who helped us to get this far. We are High Sensory People, which means that like 20-30% of the world’s population, we were born with the genetic trait now referred to as High Sensory Intelligence®. The scientific name of the trait is Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) but it’s commonly known right now as being highly sensitive. We are passionate about raising awareness about the HSP trait and reframing it from being highly sensitive to High Sensory.  In this week’s episode we talk about the High Sensation Seeking (HSS) aspect of the trait which around 30% of HSPs have. We talk about how we both score highly on High Sensory Intelligence tests but because we are also HSS, we need to make sure we include lots of variation in our lives, we enjoy new sensations and intense experiences and love adventure (and naked swimming)! You can do the original HSP test and the High Sensation Seeking test on Dr. Elaine Aron’s website. The recent academic journal article on HSPs and HSS by Dr Aron and colleagues can be found here, but she has done a very helpful summary of it on her website here. You can do the Inluminance test for High Sensory Intelligence® devised by Willow McIntosh here  You can do Julie Bjelland’s HSP test here. Thank you so much for joining us! If you have any comments, questions, or ideas for future episodes, we’d love to hear from you. And please subscribe, like and review our podcast! You can also get in touch with us at [email protected]  Find out more about us and the work we do at janeelizabethaston.com and elisha-may.com Thank you to Nathan Wills for the wonderful original music. 

Welcome to the ninth episode of the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane Elizabeth Aston and Elisha May! We are High Sensory People, which means that like 20-30% of the world’s population, we were born with the genetic trait now referred to as High Sensory Intelligence®. The scientific name of the trait is Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) but it’s commonly known right now as being highly sensitive. We are passionate about raising awareness about the HSP trait and reframing it from being highly sensitive to High Sensory.  In this week’s episode we talk about the High Sensory trait in children, and Elaine Aron’s test for HSP children, as well as our own experience of the trait when we were younger. This is following on from the three most recent episodes (6, 7 & 8) when we discussed the key signs of being a High Sensory Person. If you want to dig a little deeper then we recommend visiting Dr. Elaine Aron’s website where you will find the HSP test for children as well as the original HSP test for adults. Dr Aron has also written books about HSP children and HSP parents, details of these are also on her website above. We mentioned Jenn Granneman and Andre Solo’s recent book Sensitive (published 2023), which has chapters on HSP children and parents, and is very well researched and written. If you’re looking for the other HSP adult tests, you can do the test for High Sensory Intelligence® devised by Willow McIntosh at Inluminance and Julie Bjelland’s HSP test is here. Thank you so much for joining us! If you have any comments, questions, or ideas for future episodes, we’d love to hear from you. And please subscribe, like and review our podcast! You can also get in touch with us at [email protected]  Find out more about us and the work we do at janeelizabethaston.com and elisha-may.com Thank you to Nathan Wills for the wonderful original music. 

Welcome to the eighth episode of the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane Elizabeth Aston and Elisha May! We are High Sensory People, which means that like 20-30% of the world’s population, we were born with the genetic trait now referred to as High Sensory Intelligence®. The scientific name of the trait is Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) but it’s commonly known right now as being highly sensitive. We are passionate about raising awareness about the HSP trait and reframing it from being highly sensitive to High Sensory.  In this week’s episode we continue our discussion about the key signs of being a High Sensory Person, so if you’re not sure whether you are HSP, then do listen on. You might also want to check out the last two episodes for the start of this discussion. If you want to dig a little deeper then we recommend these three HSP tests: You can do the Inluminance test for High Sensory Intelligence® devised by Willow McIntosh here  You can do the original HSP test on Dr. Elaine Aron’s website. You can do the test on Julie Bjelland’s HSP test here. Thanks again to the wonderful Kate Gaffney for her suggestion for this episode! Listen to her brilliant and funny podcast Service from Hell here. Thank you so much for joining us! If you have any comments, questions, or ideas for future episodes, we’d love to hear from you. And please subscribe, like and review our podcast! You can also get in touch with us at [email protected]  Find out more about us and the work we do at janeelizabethaston.com and elisha-may.com Thank you to Nathan Wills for the wonderful original music. 

Welcome to the seventh episode of the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane Elizabeth Aston and Elisha May! We are High Sensory People, which means that like 20-30% of the world’s population, we were born with the genetic trait now referred to as High Sensory Intelligence®. The scientific name of the trait is Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) but it’s commonly known right now as being highly sensitive. We are passionate about raising awareness about the HSP trait and reframing it from being highly sensitive to High Sensory.  In this week’s episode we continue our discussion about the key signs of being a High Sensory Person, so if you’re not sure whether you are HSP, then do listen on. You might also want to check out last weeks episode for the start of this discussion. If you want to dig a little deeper then we recommend these three HSP tests: You can do the Inluminance test for High Sensory Intelligence® devised by Willow McIntosh You can do the original HSP test on Dr. Elaine Aron’s website. You can do the test on Julie Bjelland’s HSP test here. Thanks again to the wonderful Kate Gaffney for her suggestion for this episode! Listen to her brilliant and funny podcast Service from Hell here. Thank you so much for joining us! If you have any comments, questions, or ideas for future episodes, we’d love to hear from you. And please subscribe, like and review our podcast! You can also get in touch with us at [email protected]  Find out more about us and the work we do at janeelizabethaston.com and elisha-may.com Thank you to Nathan Wills for the wonderful original music. 

Welcome to the sixth episode of the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane Elizabeth Aston and Elisha May! We are High Sensory People, which means that like 20-30% of the world’s population, we were born with the genetic trait now referred to as High Sensory Intelligence®. The scientific name of the trait is Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) but it’s commonly known right now as being highly sensitive. We are passionate about raising awareness about the HSP trait and reframing it from being highly sensitive to High Sensory.  In this week’s episode we start our discussion about the key signs of being a High Sensory Person, so if you’re not sure whether you are HSP, then do listen to this and the next couple of episodes. Today we discuss three of the main HSP tests, and start talking about some of the key question areas. You can do the Inluminance test for High Sensory Intelligence® devised by Willow McIntosh here  You can do the original HSP test on Dr. Elaine Aron’s website. You can do the test on Julie Bjelland’s HSP test here. Thanks again to the wonderful Kate Gaffney for her suggestion for this episode! Listen to her brilliant and funny podcast Service from Hell here. And thank you so much for joining us! If you have any comments, questions, or ideas for future episodes, we’d love to hear from you. And please subscribe, like and review our podcast! You can also get in touch with us at [email protected]  Find out more about us and the work we do at janeelizabethaston.com and elisha-may.com Thank you to Nathan Wills for the wonderful original music. 

Welcome to the fifth episode of the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane Elizabeth Aston and Elisha May! We are High Sensory People, which means that like 20-30% of the world’s population, we were born with the genetic trait now referred to as High Sensory Intelligence®. The scientific name of the trait is Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) but it’s commonly known right now as being highly sensitive. We are passionate about raising awareness about the HSP trait and reframing it from being highly sensitive to High Sensory.  In this week’s episode we talk about having high standards and perfectionism: Some of the pitfalls of perfectionism – including our motivations for wanting to be perfect, and why this only makes us miserable Why having naturally high standards is associated with the High Sensory Trait and  how has this helped us over the years (even when we didn’t know we were HSP) The difference between having high standards and perfectionism, and some of the key benefits of this aspect of the trait. Thank you so much for joining us! We would love to hear from you so please let us know below  if you have any comments, questions, or ideas for future episodes. You can also get in touch with us at [email protected]  You can find out more about us and the work we do at janeelizabethaston.com and elisha-may.com Find out more about High Sensory Intelligence® and how we became High Sensory Coaches with Willow McIntosh at Inluminance You can find resources and courses for HSPs on Julie Bjelland's website We are eternally grateful to Dr. Elaine Aron for all of her research and for bringing this trait to the attention of the world. You can find out more and do the original HSP test on Dr. Elaine Aron’s website. Thank you to Nathan Wills for the wonderful original music. 

Welcome to the fourth episode of the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane Elizabeth Aston and Elisha May!  We are High Sensory People, which means that like 20-30% of the world’s population, we were born with the genetic trait now referred to as High Sensory Intelligence®. The scientific name of the trait is Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) but it’s commonly known right now as being highly sensitive. We are passionate about raising awareness about the HSP trait and reframing it from being highly sensitive to High Sensory.  In this episode, we talk about the importance of managing our environments at home and at work to support our High Sensory Intelligence. This includes discussion about where we live, the importance of getting enough sleep, and ways we have found to make travel easier for us, and the importance of unstructured time to rest and recharge ourselves as High Sensory People. We talk about the vital role spending time in nature plays for us in helping us to stay in balance so that we can make the most of, and enjoy our High Sensory abilities. We, like many HSPs, have found that self-employment or running our own businesses suits us better than working for others because we can control our work environment and also our work schedule. It’s important to build in breaks as we need them, but HSP work very efficiently, and given the right conditions, we can often achieve more in 4 hours than a non-HSP can get done in twice the time. Finally, we touch on some of the ways in which people have been valued at work in the past, and why this needs to change in order to get the best out of High Sensory People. Thank you so much for joining us! If you have any comments, questions, or ideas for future episodes, we’d love to hear from you. And please subscribe, like and review our podcast! You can also get in touch with us at [email protected]  Find out more about us and the work we do at janeelizabethaston.com and elisha-may.com Find out more about High Sensory Intelligence® and how we became High Sensory Coaches with Willow McIntosh at Inluminance  You can find resources and courses for HSPs on Julie Bjelland's website We are eternally grateful to Dr. Elaine Aron for all of her research and for bringing this trait to the attention of the world. You can find out more and do the original HSP test on Dr. Elaine Aron’s website. Thank you to Nathan Wills for the wonderful original music. 

Welcome to the third episode of the High Sensory People podcast with Jane Elizabeth Aston and Elisha May!  We are High Sensory People – HSP – which means that like 20-30% of the world’s population, we were born with the genetic trait now referred to as High Sensory Intelligence®. The scientific name of the trait is Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) but it’s commonly known right now as being highly sensitive. We are passionate about raising awareness about the HSP trait and reframing it from being highly sensitive to High Sensory.  In this episode, we talk about the vital importance of self-care for us as High Sensory People, and why it’s not selfish – because when we take care of ourselves, everyone benefits. Although we need to prioritise self-care to show up authentically in the world and for our gifts to shine, some of us have found it difficult to do this. Because we spent so many years knowing what everyone around us needed, we may have put other people’s needs above our own, to our detriment, and ultimately everyone else’s too. Or we might not even have known what our needs were until we got too exhausted and unwell to carry on the way we were. We talk honestly about our experiences and how we have learned, through trial and error, to take care of our high sensory selves. For example, building in plenty of downtime; alone time and time to rest, reset and restore, has been transformative because when we’re balanced and able to live in our truth, we can really shine. These days, we know when we’re not prioritising self-care enough, because we can read and respond to the signs. And when we put ourselves and our self-care needs first, it puts us in touch with the truth of who we are and what we are here to do in the world, and ultimately, everyone benefits from that. Thank you so much for joining us! Please let us know if you have any comments, questions, or ideas for future episodes.  You can also get in touch with us at [email protected]  You can find out more about us and the work we do at janeelizabethaston.com and elisha-may.com Find out more about High Sensory Intelligence® and how we became High Sensory Coaches with Willow McIntosh at Inluminance You can find resources and courses for HSPs on Julie Bjelland's website We are eternally grateful to Dr. Elaine Aron for all of her research and for bringing this trait to the attention of the world. You can find out more and do the original HSP test on Dr. Elaine Aron’s website. Thank you to Elisha's brother, Nathan Wills, for the wonderful original music. 

Welcome to the second episode of the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane Elizabeth Aston and Elisha May!  We are High Sensory People, which means that like 20-30% of the world’s population, we were born with the genetic trait now referred to as High Sensory Intelligence®. The scientific name of the trait is Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) but it’s commonly known right now as being highly sensitive. We are passionate about raising awareness about the HSP trait and reframing it from being highly sensitive to High Sensory.  In this episode, we talk about the High Sensory trait now referred to as High Sensory Intelligence® and our experiences of being High Sensory – or HSPs. This includes some of the biological and brain differences between High Sensory People compared to others without the trait, such as a more active and reactive nervous system, and in the brain, a more active amygdala and insula, and how these mean that we experience life very differently to non HSPs. We chat through the DOES acronym devised by Dr. Elaine Aron to describe the trait in terms of D = depth of processing, O = overstimulation, E = emotional reactivity and empathy, and S = sensing the subtle. You can find links to her research and books, as well as her HSP test and her test for the high sensation seeking (HSS) aspect of the trait that we mention at Dr. Elaine Aron’s website   We share some of our past experiences of not managing the trait very well, especially before we knew about it, as a result of overstimulation and overwhelm, and some of the self-care strategies that we have found to be most helpful for us. We also talk about some of the profound joys of being High Sensory, including feeling our emotions very deeply, being naturally able to understand and empathise with others, to form deep connections and also how, when we come to understand and work in harmony with the trait rather than battle against it, we may be able to experience the world around us in ways which can be profoundly magical and moving. Thank you so much for joining us! If you have any comments, questions, or ideas for future episodes, we’d love to hear from you. You can also get in touch with us at [email protected]  Find out more about us and the work we do at janeelizabethaston.com and elisha-may.com Find out more about High Sensory Intelligence® and how we became High Sensory Coaches with Willow McIntosh at Inluminance  You can find resources and courses for HSPs on Julie Bjelland's website We are eternally grateful to Dr. Elaine Aron for all of her research and for bringing this trait to the attention of the world. You can find out more and do the original HSP test on Dr. Elaine Aron’s website. Thank you to Nathan Wills for the wonderful original music. 

Welcome to the very first episode of the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane Elizabeth Aston and Elisha May! We are High Sensory People, which means that like 20-30% of the world’s population, we were born with the genetic trait now referred to as High Sensory Intelligence®. The scientific name of the trait is Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) but it’s commonly known right now as being highly sensitive. We are passionate about raising awareness about the HSP trait and reframing it from being highly sensitive to High Sensory. We want to increase the visibility of the trait, change how the world sees High Sensory People, and inspire and empower all HSPs. In this episode, we cover three introductory topics to introduce ourselves, and the High Sensory trait. We talk about how we discovered we are High Sensory People, how being HSP impacted our lives before we knew about it, and how life changing it was when we each found out that we were born with a genetic trait that means we’re wired differently to the majority. We also explain why we called this podcast High Sensory People, and why we prefer the terms High Sensory to highly sensitive, because we believe that it doesn’t do justice to the extraordinary qualities and abilities that we have as High Sensory People. We believe that High Sensory People are so needed in the world, but the trait is not well known, and can be misunderstood. We want to help to change that, and we would love you to join us on this journey! Thank you to Elisha’s brother Nathan Wills for the wonderful original music.  Don’t forget to subscribe, and do let us know if you have any comments, questions, or ideas for future episodes.  Or get in touch with us at [email protected]  You can find out more about us and the work we do at janeelizabethaston.com and elisha-may.com Find out more about High Sensory Intelligence® and how we became High Sensory Coaches with Willow McIntosh at Inluminance You can find resources and courses for HSPs on Julie Bjelland's website And finally,  an apology… We say in the show that Dr. Elaine Aron said that she wished she had never used the word “sensitive” to describe the SPS trait. However, this may not actually be true, so please accept our apologies for this misquote. We are eternally grateful to Dr. Aron for all of her research and for bringing this trait to the attention of the world. You can find out more about her wonderful work, and do the original HSP test on Dr. Elaine Aron’s website.

Welcome to the High Sensory People Podcast with Jane Elizabeth Aston and Elisha May! We are High Sensory People, which means that like 20-30% of the world’s population, we were born with the genetic trait now referred to as High Sensory Intelligence®. The scientific name of the trait is Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) but it’s commonly known right now as being highly sensitive.  We are passionate about raising awareness of the HSP trait and reframing it from being highly sensitive to High Sensory. We want to increase the visibility of the trait, change how the world sees High Sensory People, and inspire and empower all HSPs. High Sensory People process the information around them very deeply through all their senses and naturally perceive things that many people miss. We share many similarities in how we experience the world, but we each have our own unique version of High Sensory Intelligence.  Because we process information so deeply, it can be challenging to give ourselves what we need to thrive, rather than just survive, in a world that’s not set up for High Sensory People. But it can be overwhelming, especially before we understand how the trait can work for us, and how resilient we really are. What has sometimes in the past felt like our biggest weaknesses, can in fact, when harnessed effectively, become our greatest strength and source of power. We are not scientific experts, but we’ve got our lived experience of this trait and we want to share this with you so that the trait is better known and understood. High Sensory People bring so many gifts that the world needs now, more than ever.  We would love you to join us on this journey! Do let us know if you have any comments, questions, or ideas for future episodes. You can get in touch with us at [email protected]  You can find out more about us at janeelizabethaston.com and elisha-may.com Find out more about High Sensory Intelligence® and how we became High Sensory Coaches with Willow McIntosh at Inluminance You can find resources and courses for HSPs on Julie Bjelland's website We are eternally grateful to Dr. Elaine Aron for all of her research and for bringing this trait to the attention of the world. You can find out more and do the original HSP test on Dr. Elaine Aron’s website. Thank you to Nathan Wills for the wonderful original music. #hsp #hspcoach #highsensorypeople #highsensory #highlysensitiveperson #highlysensitive #highsensoryperson #highsensoryintelligence #empath #elainearon #highsensorycoach #sensoryprocessingsensitivity #elishamay #janeelizabethaston #highsensoryleader #inluminance #willowmcintosh #neurodiverse #selfcarematters #mentalhealthadvocate