132: Tools for the Highly Sensitive Person with Allison Lefkowitz, LMFT

Join me in a laughter-filled conversation with Allison Lefkowitz, author of "The Highly Sensitive Person's Toolkit: Everyday Strategies for Thriving in an Overstimulating World," and one of the best resources for highly sensitive individuals. Allison is a licensed marriage and family therapist in private practice in New York City who specializes in working with highly sensitive people (HSPs). Topics discussed in this episode: What it means to be Highly Sensitive (8:18) Areas where Highly Sensitive Persons (HSPs) struggle (9:30) How to differentiate an empath versus an HSP (10:16) Self-Advocacy and Self Parenting: the first of the nine Core Skills for HSPs (13:26) The Self-Advocacy and Self Parenting Skill Set (14:51) The *5 Different Sensitive Styles (23:19) What has surprised Allison the most in her work with HSPs (30:02) Resources: Allison's website: Allison's email: AllisonLefkowitz@icloud.com The Highly Sensitive Person's Toolkit: *Resource for the 5 different sensitive styles: Living With Intensity: Understanding the Sensitivity, Excitability, and the Emotional Development of Gifted Children, Adolescents, and Adults , edited by Susan Daniels and Michael Piechowski

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132: Tools for the Highly Sensitive Person with Allison Lefkowitz, LMFT is an episode from Women In-Depth: Conversations about the Inner Lives of Women | Self-Acceptance | Relationships | Authenticity | Aging |Healing | Loss | Suffering | Well-Being | Sexuality | Motherhood | Womanhood by Lourdes Viado.

This episode is 35:33 long.

This episode was published on Jan 6, 2021.

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