HSP Resources
Video & Audio
The Happy HSP Podcast
I was invited to speak with Kimberly Marsh recently, the host of The Happy HSP podcast. I’d love to know your reflections on this.
We talked about the ache of loneliness and longing for deeper connection as highly sensitive people, and how we can find belonging in community with other HSPs as this gives us the courage and validation to be our authentic selves. Read more and listen here…
Sensitive and Strong Podcast
I had the honour of being invited onto the Sensitive and Strong podcast by Annet van Duinen. This podcast is a must-listen for HSPs looking to embrace their sensitivity. Annet shares empowering insights and practical strategies to help highly sensitive people navigate the world with strength and authenticity.
In this episode, I discuss why community is essential for HSPs and how to build a strong, supportive HSP community. I also share some of my personal thinking and values behind creating HSPconnect and how it serves as a space where HSPs can truly thrive together.
I hope you enjoy it.
The Gentle Rebel Podcast
Many people feel overwhelmed, uncertain, or powerless in a world grappling with climate crises, political instability, and societal upheaval. But what if there was a way to process these emotions and transform them into meaningful action? This is the premise of “The Work That Reconnects” and Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in with Unexpected Resilience and Creative Power, developed by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnson. These tools invite us to explore our emotional responses to the world, shift our perspectives, and find meaningful ways forward.
In this episode of Andy Mort’s The Gentle Rebel Podcast, I was invited to chat with Andy about these topics. I shared several practices for staying anchored as we navigate the pressing complexity of our times.
Entering The Era of The Sensitive Person
Cindy interviewed by Amisha Ghadiali for All That We Are. “There’s a whole range of ways that highly sensitive people can show up in the consulting room in a negative way. There are also huge benefits to being highly sensitive. To live within an 80% society of people who are not highly sensitive we need to become very aware of the highly sensitive trait.” ~ Cindy Barnes
E60 CINDY BARNES ON EMOTIONAL LEADERSHIP, SENSORY PROCESSING SENSITIVITY AND ECO ANXIETY ENTERING THE ERA OF THE SENSITIVE PERSON
Listen to the conversation:
Interview, Marlow FM
Are you a perfectionist and your own worst critic? Is your priority other people and making them happy? Are you a bright, quick thinker or over-thinker? Do you often get overwhelmed by life and even suffer from anxiety and depression? Chances are you may have highly sensitive and gifted traits. Counsellor Cindy Barnes has started a self-help group and will explain how you can take control of your life. Tune in to Mid Morning Matters this Friday with Malcolm Parr and Diarmaid Fitzpatrick.
Watch ‘Sensitive: The Untold Story’ with your partner, family or friends to help them understand the trait better and therefore understand you better. Coming soon on the same website is ‘Sensitive and In Love’.
Sensitive - The Untold Story: Trailer
Sensitive - The Untold Story: Watch
Elaine Aron – Introduction Series
Part 1 is an overview of the research on high sensitivity.
Part 2 is how to live as a highly sensitive person in a non-sensitive world.
Part 3 is the question and answer session with the audience.
Infographic
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The Highly Sensitive Person Wellness Jar
There are two kinds of vulnerability factors that can fill our jar: genetic factors & environmental factors. In order to feel physically and emotionally well, our wellness jar must not be filled to the top.
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Anxiety vs Overarousal Worksheet
Save this image and practice asking yourself these questions as a way of starting to learn the difference.
Books
Books for highly sensitive people
The Highly Sensitive Person
I recommend this as the starting point in your HSP journey. This is the first book on the subject written by the author of the original research into highly sensitive people.
The Highly Sensitive Persons Workbook
This is a good workbook for practical help and exercises for you to work through either alone or in small groups.
The Highly Sensitive Person’s Survival Guide
A very useful step by step guide for how to live as a highly sensitive person.
Career
Making Work Work for the Highly Sensitive Person
Thrive: The Highly Sensitive Person and Career
Relationships
The Highly Sensitive Person in Love
Understanding and Managing Relationships When the World Overwhelms You
Highly Sensitive Children
Three great books for parents of highly sensitive children.
The Highly Sensitive Child: Helping Our Children Thrive When the World Overwhelms Them
Understanding the Highly Sensitive Child
Seeing an Overwhelming World through Their Eyes (My Highly Sensitive Child) This one is written from the child’s perspective.
The Strong, Sensitive Boy
This is a wonderful book on raising sensitive boys.
Managing Emotions
Books on understanding and managing intense emotions.
Emotional Sensitivity and Intensity
How to manage intense emotions as a highly sensitive person – learn more about yourself with this life-changing self help book.
Permission To Feel
A great book with practical steps in how to understand, manage and regulate emotions.
Self Care
The best books I’ve read on self care for highly sensitive people.
The Art of Extreme Self-Care: Transform Your Life One Month at a Time
Communication
Classic books I think every highly sensitive person needs to read on empathic, collaborative, authentic communication and how to negotiate away from conflict.
