Caretaking Your Sensitive System for More Love 2.0

Highly Sensitive, Happily Married

189 (This episode goes hand in hand with episode 190) Being a highly sensitive person obviously means we are more sensitive than others. This has real ramifications in our love lives— both wonderful and challenging.
Listen in to this VERY revised (almost totally new) version of an older topic, where you will learn that, luckily, you can support your sensitive self in ways that amplify the best parts of your sensitivity, and make the challenges of it so much easier.
. . .and how this will involve caretaking your sensitive Mind Body Heart System, (starting with your nervous system) MORE deeply and consistently than non-HSPs (like it or not!).

In other words, even if you resist the idea, the truth is, in order to have an intimate relationship (and life) that feels deeply satisfying, nourishing, and fulfilling as an HSP, you need to attend more to your emotional well-being and nervous system regulation than non-HSPs.
In this episode you will hear my own story around this, and how, as I’ve accepted this, and learned how to caretake my sensitive nervous system (and sensitive mind, body, heart, and emotions), I’ve fallen in love with doing it. AND how doing so changed EVERYTHING for the better forever in my love life.

This can be true for you, too.

You’ll also learn:

• why love and marriage can be so hard as HSP without truly caretaking your sensitive system in the right ways
• why accepting your higher need for emotional caretaking can be difficult, and why it's more than worth it to do so
• the 4 simple but essential foundational steps to get started with right away to be able to truly caretake your sensitive system
• And the best way to truly regulate the most foundational aspect of your emotional well-being (your nervous system) so you can always be able to guide yourself back to that calm, steady, connected-to-your-heart-and-wisdom place from which you’ll best relate to your significant other in ways that lead to the deepest connection, love, and collaboration, and the most fulfilling intimacy.

Without this emotional tending, the kind of relationship you most want – full of love, lightheartedness, attraction, effective and connecting communication, and mutual supportiveness – is likely to remain elusive.

But with it? You set the stage for what can feel like magic to happen in your relationship. Dive in to begin.

SHOW NOTES:

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