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Alane Freund, High Sensitivity, Anxiety and ADHD

Julie Cusmariu — Thu, 18 May 2023 00:04:05 +0000

Alane Freund is a cherished guest and friend of the podcast and we have had many conversations, always with a unique focus through the lens of High Sensitivity. In this episode as Alane put it best, we have come together around the theme of Mental Health Awareness Month. We weave in and around many topics, including ADHD and Anxiety as overlays to HSP.

Let us know what you gain from this conversation. May you feel support around normalizing these topics and gain your own insight to whatever you may be curious about, wondering about and navigating for yourself, the children and youth you are raising, for your clients, family members and friends.

Show notes.
00:13:57-The conversation with Alane begins.
00:14:59- Julie shows off a touching mother’s day gift from her boys and Alane talks about her 22 year old son wishing her Happy Mother’s Day.
00:21:00- What does it mean to have accommodations at school for kids with certain challenges.
00:24:45 – Through the lens of High Sensitivity and those with the trait of sensitivity: The world is designed for the majority of people (80%). How do the 20% take exams? What about multiple choice exams and self-assessments? And who’s designing these assessments and curriculum anyway?
00:28:15- Alane’s hack for succeeding with self-assessments.
00:30:02- The complexity and importance of understanding neuro-divergence and mental illness.
00:33:00- HSP can look like ADHD, how?
00:36:45- Anxiety, overwhelm and high sensitivity.
00:40:55- ADD and ADHD, the distinctions.
00:47:00- Misdiagnosis- Is it ADHD or HSP? How to prevent a misdiagnosis.
00:51:00- Can both HSP and ADHD be present in an individual?
00:51:40- How do we treat anxiety and ADHD?
00:53:30- The tweet that activated Julie’s biological alarm system. A post by Adam Grant.
00:54:49- #WaitUntil8th
00:58:48- One way to support mental health in your kids.
01:02:00- Executive Functioning, clarified.
01:04:10- Differentiating between high sensitivity and ADHD.
0:1:07:10- Julie speaks about her experience with anxiety, as a HSP.
01:08:10- #1 most effective treatment for anxiety, according to Alane, clinically.
01:14:10- Medication for ADHD and its effectiveness. Being curious about potential misdiagnosis for an HSP.
01:15:44- Ways to connect with Alane.

WATCH our conversation here on YOUTUBE.
https://youtu.be/NzSKQnpyp1Q

Here are links from my previous podcast conversations with Alane.
https://juliecusmariu.com/2023/01/highly-sensitive-person/highly-sensitive-parents-a-conversation-with-alane-freund-and-julie-cusmariu/
https://juliecusmariu.com/2020/09/voices-that-create-change/alane-freund-on-being-a-highly-sensitive-person-in-uncertain-times/
https://juliecusmariu.com/2018/08/julie-in-conversation-motherhood/alane-freund/

Alane’s talk at Google: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tKDnsns2bg

Are you Highly Sensitive? Take the self-test here.

A (Canadian) Public Health Approach to Population Mental Wellness

What is Mental Health? What is Mental Illness?

Find Alane here:

Links to events at https://www.alanefreund.com/events/

Follow Alane IG- https://www.instagram.com/areyouhighlysensitive/

YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzyBDAaWBU6qcI71BAR2rdg

Meet Alane Freund, LMFT, International Consultant on High Sensitivity www.alanefreund.com & www.areyouhighlysensitive.com

Alane Freund, MS, MA, is an International Consultant on High Sensitivity (ICHS) and family therapist who helps highly sensitive adults and youth focus on solutions through education, consultation, and speaking. She has developed numerous programs for highly sensitive people and clinicians, including her monthly workshops at Are You Highly Sensitive. She is known for her widely recognized Talk at Google, Understanding the Highly Sensitive Person. Alane Freund can be reached through her website, alanefreund.com.

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Appreciate and apply your sensitivity as a powerful asset with Alane Freund, LMFT

Julie Cusmariu — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 15:19:50 +0000

Alane Freund, International Consultant on High Sensitivity and therapist as well as cherished guest and friend of the podcast, Julie in Conversation, has a meaningful and deeply helpful FREE event coming up on August 25th.

Each time @alanefreundlmft and I join in conversation, I gain such transformative tools and insights on leading and relating to myself, my kids, my clients and everyone I meet, in work and play. Check out Alane’s upcoming event below and let me know what you gain.

Check it out and “learn to appreciate and apply your high sensitivity as an asset — to redesign your life, deepen your understanding of who you naturally are, and thrive in your relationships.”

From leadership to parenting, you can directly apply what you learn from Alane to experience greater self-awareness, insight and create change in and around you.
May you benefit!

https://shiftnetwork.infusionsoft.com/go/ayt/a25158

Perhaps you’ve been diagnosed with anxiety — and told to stop stressing out and being so… “sensitive”?

For most highly sensitive people (HSPs), anxiety is the #1 complaint that puts them at a painful disadvantage. It makes perfect sense that HSPs would feel anxious living in a world designed by and for the 80% who are NOT highly sensitive.

Alane Freund has helped many HSPs discover how to truly appreciate their innate sensitivity as a valuable asset — and how to use it to reset and redesign their life.

This Thursday, August 25, with Alane’s guidance, you’ll explore and create new habits by developing a well-stocked toolbox of skills to finally thrive in a challenging world.What this is about….

Are you really an anxious person? Or are you actually a highly sensitive person (HSP)?

Join us for a FREE online event led by Alane Freund, consultant, speaker, and therapist for highly sensitive people (HSPs), and discover why people with anxiety are often misdiagnosed, left with no solutions, and in a chronic state of deep overwhelm.

During this event, you’ll discover new tools and techniques that will allow you to access, cultivate, and implement your growth and resilience to live to your fullest potential.

You can also benefit from the conversations I’ve had with Alane on the podcast here.

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Parenting Highly Sensitive Kids and Youth with Alane Freund, LMFT and Coach and Consultant, Julie Cusmariu. A workshop.

Julie Cusmariu — Sat, 26 Feb 2022 16:17:25 +0000

Alane Freund and I came together for an online workshop for Highly Sensitive People on Emotional, Reactive and Empathic Kids.

Join us by purchasing the workshop below and be led through an overview of both the challenges and tools in parenting sensitive youngsters and weathering their emotional lives in this new workshop.

Come listen in and gain insight, knowledge and practical advice for caring for yourself and the children and youth you are raising and nurturing. Questions were addressed from participants and many helpful strategies were shared.

Purchase and view the 1.5 hour workshop below.

About this event

Highly sensitive children and youth think and process deeply, have strong emotional reactions, notice subtleties, and have deep empathy–significantly more than their peers. Numbering at about one in five, these youngsters can become easily overstimulated, or overaroused, to use the psychological term.

Becoming so overstimulated makes emotional self-regulation terribly challenging for these kids. However, HSC and HSY’s emotional reactivity is also a superpower. They know, before anyone else, how to “read the room” because their empathy and emotional responsiveness is emotional leadership. Highly sensitive kids who are well regulated manage their emotional responsiveness with fluidity, but the nature of these children and teens is that they will spend time every day overstimulated and dysregulated if they are participating in western youth culture, including attending school daily, exposure to screens, and inadequate physical exercise.

Highly sensitive moms and parenting professionals, Alane Freund and Julie Cusmariu, will lead us in an overview of both the challenges and tools in parenting sensitive youngsters and weathering their emotional lives.

Alane Freund, LMFT is an International Consultant on High Sensitivity, a therapist (and equine-assisted therapist) and speaker for highly sensitive people. She is also a cherished guest of the podcast, Julie in Conversation.

You can get to know Alane Freund from one of our two previous podcast conversations listed below. Alane works closely with Dr. Elaine Aron, author of The Highly Sensitive Person, who began pioneering research on high sensitivity 30 years ago and continues to do research on it now, also calling it Sensory-Processing Sensitivity (SPS, the trait’s scientific term).

Purchase and view the 1.5 hour workshop here.

You can take these self-tests created by Dr. Elaine Aron:

Are you Highly Sensitive?

https://hsperson.com/test/highly-sensitive-test/

Is your Child Highly Sensitive?

https://hsperson.com/test/highly-sensitive-child-test/

1st podcast conversation with Alane Freund on Julie in Conversation the #Motherhood #LetsCreateAVillage

2nd podcast conversation with Alane Freund on Julie in Conversation on managing and thriving as a Highly Sensitive Person in uncertain times.

Alane and I had a few warm up chats before the workshop. Here’s one you can tune into.

alanefreund.com & areyouhighlysensitive.com

As a consultant, therapist, and speaker for highly sensitive people, Alane Freund, LMFT (a California credential: Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist), has helped adults, youth, and families focus on solutions through psychotherapy and consultation for over three decades.

An International Consultant on High Sensitivity (ICHS), Ms. Freund has developed and implemented programs for highly sensitive people, children, families, and the clinicians who serve them. She holds Masters’ degrees in both clinical psychology and school counseling and is the parent of a highly sensitive young adult. Ms. Freund’s Talk at Google, Understanding the Highly Sensitive Person, has over 300K views.

She hosts the twice monthly “Are You Highly Sensitive LIVE” Q&A webinars and leads groups and retreats, including Parenting Sensitivity Circles, Sensitive & Anxious Teens, Wise Women & Wonder, and the HSPs & Horses retreats both online and at Heart and Mind Equine in Marin County, California.

Alane offers team building and educational workshops and retreats across the globe, including at Kripalu-Massachusetts, 1440 Multiversity-California, Leading Edge Seminars-Toronto, Menla Retreat Center-New York, Art of Living Institute-North Carolina, and the California Institute for Integral Studies-San Francisco. She can be reached for consultation or speaking through her website, alanefreund.com or via her YouTube channel: Alane Freund LMFT.

Julie Cusmariu, PCC, CMC

Julie is a Certified Life Coach, PCC, Certified Mentor Coach, Intuitive Consultant and Facilitator and Podcast Host and Producer with over 15 years experience in the field of coaching, healing and transformation. Julie works with creatives, leaders, entrepreneurs, executives, artists, parents and people interested in their own well-being and that of their families, neighbours and planet. Julie supports individuals in trusting their intuition to make better decisions, gain clarity, lead with meaning and purpose and be a voice of change. Julie supports individuals in all areas related to leadership and decision making, career, personal development, and life transitions. Julie is the host and producer of Julie in Conversation, a live weekly podcast featuring bestselling authors, scientists, psychologists and thought leaders contributing to individual and collective healing and change. Julie is based in Montreal, Canada and works with individuals and groups worldwide.

www.JulieCusmariu.com www.JulieinConversation.com

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Alane Freund, LMFT Honoring and managing your Sensitivity

Julie Cusmariu — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 22:06:34 +0000

www.AlaneFreund.com
AreYouHighlySensitive.com

Alane Freund, MS, MA, is an International Consultant on High Sensitivity (ICHS) and family therapist who helps highly sensitive people and their families focus on solutions through therapy, consultation, and speaking. She has developed numerous programs for highly sensitive people, families, teens, and clinicians who serve them. She is known for her widely recognized Talk at Google, Understanding the Highly Sensitive Person on YouTube. Alane Freund can be reached through her website, alanefreund.com.

You can listen to my first 2 valuable conversations with Alane Freund on the podcast right here:

Here is more from Alane Freund:

A DAY ON NEURODIVERSITY Alane Freund on Thriving as a Highly Sensitive Person
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/neurodiversity-online-conference-tickets-150736399629?aff=AlaneFreund

Pivots and Vectors with Alane Freund

Heart and Mind Equine Herd Ranking and Linking

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Doubling up on Self-Care

Julie Cusmariu — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 21:07:34 +0000

I’m reflecting on what I heard High Sensitivity expert and consultant (and cherished guest on my podcast) Alane Freund share the other day, which landed me, in just the right place.

Alane said especially right now, in these times, we need to be “DOUBLING UP ON SELF-CARE.”

Alane also said, “When it gets hard, it’s harder to take care of yourself.” And what can help is “having an accountability partner.”

How does this land for you?

What can you do that can take care of you? What can you do for self-care? Is it a double dose of self-care? Single-dose? Half- dose? Is it awareness and curiosity about what it can be and how it can feel? An accountability partner? You matter. Your needs matter. When the well gets filled we can then share what’s in the well with others. This is what motivates me. Every day really. With myself. My family. Friends. Clients. Unknown connections out in the world. When we can take care of ourselves we can take care of others and other things that need our care. #youroxygenmaskfirst

I’m either operating from a well that’s being replenished or I’m aware when it’s going on empty. When it’s filling up I can do the work (and I can do it better- parenting for example) that is mine to do and that calls me to it. It’s a daily practice and with one step and then the next, the way forward thankfully is here. Now.

You can find my podcast conversations with Alane Freund here.

Cheers to you. Today. Right now.

I’m a Certified Life Coach and Certified Mentor Coach based in Montreal, Canada supporting people to use their voice for change and social healing.

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