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Episode 200: The Sensitive Person's Toolkit for Challenging Days with Julie Bjelland, LMFT
Episode 200: The Sensitive Person's Toolkit for Challenging Days with Julie Bjelland, LMFT

I discuss the importance of having a "Sensitive Person's Toolkit" to navigate challenging days, sharing practical tips for managing emotional overwhelm, practicing self-compassion, and finding support. I also invite you to join our nurturing Sensitive Empowerment Community and an upcoming free course on nurturing compassion.

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Episode 194: The Challenges of Sensitivity with Julie Bjelland, LMFT
Episode 194: The Challenges of Sensitivity with Julie Bjelland, LMFT

Julie Bjelland discusses the challenges faced by highly sensitive and neurodivergent individuals, emphasizing the importance of validation, understanding, and self-care while addressing issues like sound sensitivity, feeling misunderstood, managing energy levels, sensory overwhelm, travel difficulties, negative emotions, medical challenges, feeling different, managing others' emotions, and highlighting the need for supportive communities and setting boundaries.

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Julie's TeachingsJulie BjellandJulie Bjelland, mental health, HSP and Neurodivergent podcast, highly sensitive individuals, highly sensitive person, high sensitivity, sensitivity, challenges, sound sensitivity, feeling misunderstood, energy levels, sensory overwhelm, travel challenges, negative emotions, medical challenges, feeling different, managing other people's emotions, social isolation, self-care Comments
Episode 190: The Hidden World of Autistic Women with Julie Bjelland, LMFT
Episode 190: The Hidden World of Autistic Women with Julie Bjelland, LMFT


Julie Bjelland delves into the hidden world of autistic women, emphasizing the need for understanding and adapting environments to better support their unique challenges and strengths.

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Episode 187: Empty Nest, Menopause, and Autism: A Journey from Darkness to Self-Discovery
Episode 187: Empty Nest, Menopause, and Autism: A Journey from Darkness to Self-Discovery

In this episode, I share my journey from the darkness of facing an empty nest and menopause to the light of self-discovery and understanding autism within myself, highlighting the pivotal steps I took towards prioritizing my health and rediscovering who I am.

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Episode 164: Saving HSP Lives and Improving Mental Health
Episode 164: Saving HSP Lives and Improving Mental Health

Over 90% of HSPs polled shared they had thoughts of suicide. We can learn a lot from the data we retrieved in our survey that can help save HSP lives and improve mental health. I share what I’ve learned, my own story, and resources that can help. We hope you share this information with medical and mental health professionals, and together we will save lives.

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Episode 161: Personal Update, New Resource, Neurodiversity, HSP Library
Episode 161: Personal Update, New Resource, Neurodiversity, HSP Library

Sharing a personal update and a new resource I created to help you advocate for your needs medically. Plus, I talk about the Standford Neurodiversity Summit, the similarities and differences between Autism and HSPs, and how our challenges with Sensory Overload are similar for those of us high on the sensitivity scale. Plus, learn about our HSP library!

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Episode 143: Simple Self-Care for Sensitive Souls From the Empath, Sensitives & Intuitives Summit
Episode 143: Simple Self-Care for Sensitive Souls From the Empath, Sensitives & Intuitives Summit

The modern world is often overwhelming and stressful for those with sensitive nervous systems. You often suffer from the challenges of sensory overload, impacting your mental health, and also your physical health. Fortunately, there are simple tools that have helped thousands of highly sensitive people (HSPs) move from surviving into thriving, allowing you to live life to your fullest potential — because the world needs you.

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Episode 86: Answering HSP Questions
Episode 86: Answering HSP Questions

My Sensitive Empowerment Community has become a beautiful, supportive, loving family of HSPs from all over the world. We share our experiences, connect, make friends, and support each other daily. I also offer weekly live events. I'm sharing the audio from one of our events in hopes it helps you too. This was our 57th event and all previous events have been recorded and are available to all members. Get the link to join our loving HSP family at www.juliebjelland.com

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