If you're a highly sensitive person going through a hard time, this might be the episode for you.

Welcome to episode 300 of SelfKind - a podcast for Highly Sensitive People who are navigating what it means to be sensitive in a world that doesn't always feel like it's made for them.

In this milestone 300th episode, I'm reflecting on the past year, which has been the hardest of my life. There is one thing in particular that's helped me keep my head above water as a Highly Sensitive Person and that's what I'm going to share with you. It's a foundational tool every HSP needs to know.

What is that one thing? Self-compassion.
Why do we need it? Because being human means to go through challenges. And sometimes those challenges can feel like they come thick and fast from the shadows. Being on your own side through those challenges is life-changing.

In this episode you'll hear why self-compassion and being on your own side is so important as a highly sensitive person and I also share with you a practical strategy for bringing more of this tool into your own life.

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⭐️ SOMA:HOME is open for registration!
We start on May 7th 2025 and registration closes on May 2nd
🏠 https://www.ericawebb.com.au/soma-home

SOMA:HOME is an 8 week online group program for Highly Sensitive People who are ready to befriend themselves - sensitivity and all - so that they can find a sense of home within their own skin.

Over the 8 weeks of the program, we explore the ways that you can befriend, respect and nurture your sensitivity through self-enquiry, movement and self-compassion. Weekly somatic exercise coupled with deep self-enquiry practices - this is the ultimate combination to find home within your own (sensitive) skin.

We get started on the 7th May. Registration is open now:

🏠 https://www.ericawebb.com.au/soma-home

About your host, Erica Webb:
Erica Webb is a registered counsellor, somatic exercise coach and highly sensitive person. She supports other highly sensitive people to discover their sensitivity superpowers and more confidently navigate the tricky bits of being a sensitive person in an often insensitive world.

Connect with Erica:
https://www.ericawebb.com.au
https://www.instagram.com/ericawebb_selfkind

Share your thoughts with me over on Instagram or via my website.
Want the video version? Come follow over on YouTube.

Curious about working together? Find all the details here.

You're a highly sensitive person and you know that self care is something you *should* be doing more of. But it just takes so much time, money and energy, right?

Maybe ... or maybe a new perspective is needed.

What if self-caring could be a way of *being* in the world, not just something that you do when you have all the time and resources? The perspective shift I'm offering in this episode of SelfKind might help you to do exactly that.

In this episode of the podcast, SelfKind, you will hear:
- What perceived safety has to do with self-care
- The ways you can feel safer in your highly sensitive body
- A simple exercise you can explore to immediately improve your self-care (without a single dollar spent!)
- Why the way you talk to and about yourself is so vitally important.

Mentioned in this episode:
⭐️ SOMA:HOME is open for registration!
We start on May 7th 2025 and registration closes on May 2nd
🏠 https://www.ericawebb.com.au/soma-home

SOMA:HOME is an 8 week online group program for Highly Sensitive People who are ready to befriend themselves - sensitivity and all - so that they can find a sense of home within their own skin.

Over the 8 weeks of the program, we explore the ways that you can befriend, respect and nurture your sensitivity through self-enquiry, movement and self-compassion. Weekly somatic exercise coupled with deep self-enquiry practices - this is the ultimate combination to find home within your own (sensitive) skin.

We get started on the 7th May. Registration is open now:

🏠 https://www.ericawebb.com.au/soma-home

About your host, Erica Webb:
Erica Webb is a registered counsellor, somatic exercise coach and highly sensitive person. She supports other highly sensitive people to discover their sensitivity superpowers and more confidently navigate the tricky bits of being a sensitive person in an often insensitive world.

Connect with Erica:
https://www.ericawebb.com.au
https://www.instagram.com/ericawebb_selfkind

Share your thoughts with me over on Instagram or via my website.
Want the video version? Come follow over on YouTube.

Curious about working together? Find all the details here.

It's just easier to avoid overwhelming and overstimulating places, spaces, things and people as a Highly Sensitive Person, isn't it?! Well ... sometimes but not always. Like everything, the honest answer is 'it depends'.

If you are a Highly Sensitive Person then it's likely you know the feeling of wanting to avoid the things that are dysregulating. Whether it's a social situation, a high pressured environment, public speaking or something else, you might be familiar with the urge to avoid. Sometimes that is the kindest, most supportive answer. And sometimes? Sometimes we WANT to be in those overstimulating places - we just don't want to be overstimulated!

Join me, Erica Webb, for this episode of the podcast, SelfKind, where I'm sharing some questions you can ask yourself to figure out: avoid or not?

Mentioned in this episode:
🏠 SOMA:HOME starts late April 2025 and now is the time to jump on the early interest list!

This group program for highly sensitive people will support you to befriend your sensitivity, your body and your needs. Through mindful movement, nervous system regulation and potent self-enquiry, you'll come to see your sensitivity and your body through a lens of self-kindness and compassion AND you'll be more equipped to navigate overwhelm and overstimulation, self-criticism, doubt and anxiety.

Head here to learn more: https://www.ericawebb.com.au/soma-home

About your host, Erica Webb:
Erica Webb is a registered counsellor, somatic exercise coach and highly sensitive person. She supports other highly sensitive people to discover their sensitivity superpowers and more confidently navigate the tricky bits of being a sensitive person in an often insensitive world.

Connect with Erica:
https://www.ericawebb.com.au
https://www.instagram.com/ericawebb_selfkind

Share your thoughts with me over on Instagram or via my website.
Want the video version? Come follow over on YouTube.

Curious about working together? Find all the details here.