The Hidden Psychology Of Highly Sensitive People - Dr Sasha Hamdani - #1147

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When Should You Work on Emotional Fragility?

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Chris frames what may be the episode's central tension: everyone likes validation, but taken to its extreme, unconditional validation removes all accountability. There's a meaningful difference between being deeply emotionally sensitive and using that as a reason to avoid doing any work on oneself. Dr. Hamdani's answer is careful: the person experiencing the emotion is the right judge of when to push and when to pivot — not those around them. But she also concedes that emotionally sensitive people have almost universally been told what is wrong with them while being given no practical guidance on how to fix it. Her three years of research and the resulting book represent her attempt to fill exactly that gap. The Calm Your Mind Toolkit with its 12 tools emerges as the answer to the 'how do you actually do this?' question. ^{[1] — Dr. Sasha Hamdani "We have been told you're too sensitive, you're too fragile, you're too weak, and you need to kind of strengthen yourself. But no one's told…" 56:31 Play}