highly sensitive person Archives - Julie Cusmariu

Are you A Highly Sensitive Introvert? Alane Freund joins Julie in conversation.

Julie Cusmariu — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 23:23:48 +0000

Which best describes you?

A. Are you a highly sensitive person?
B. Are you an introvert?
C. Are you a highly sensitive introvert?

Alane Freund and Julie Cusmariu help unpack what it means to be an introvert, how it does and does not relate to being highly sensitive and what you can do, and value about being one or the other, or both!

Alane is a cherished guest and friend of the podcast and always provides such great practical tips and strategies that will benefit you at home and at work and in the world as you create change.

“We always say if a person who is highly sensitive can get in a position of power, then they can change the culture.” Alane Freund.

Let us know in the comments about you and your experience with this topic.

Show notes:

Join me and Nicole Schiener: Caring Without Carrying It All – February 2024 . RECEIV A FREE 15 minute intuitive reading with me or a FREE 15 min reiki session for the first 6 people to register. http://caringwithoutcarryingitall.com

Discovering Joy retreat. A daylong retreat for HSPS Check it out and sign up here

Here is Alane Freund, Introvert https://youtu.be/vpfOBIH1VWc?si=-IliqkcGKsWepuCO
Introvert Backlash https://youtu.be/8pn3PxbFBlo?si=v_xpMmm2rBpY64qI

What Kind of Introvert Are You? https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/what-kind-of-introvert-are-you/ https://scottbarrykaufman.com/the-real-science-of-introversion-and-the-rest-of-personality/

Podcast episode: https://scottbarrykaufman.com/podcast/understanding-the-science-of-introversion-and-extraversion-with-dr-luke-smillie/

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.

Find Alane here: Links to events at https://www.alanefreund.com/events/

To join the AYHS membership for two ongoing AYHS Live workshops a month at well below half price and discounts on Alane’s groups and consultation.
Follow Alane IG- / areyouhighlysensitive
YouTube – / @areyouhighlysensitive 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, www.alanefreund.com.

Julie Cusmariu is broadcasting from unceded Indigenous lands Tiohtia’ke, known as Montreal, Canada which is the traditional territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka. Kanien’kehá:ka and has long served as a gathering place for many First Nations including the Haudenosaunee , st-lawrence iroqouains, mohaawk and Huron-Wendat and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Metis peoples.

About Julie in Conversation

Julie Cusmariu is a Certified Professional Coach, Mentor, Facilitator, Intuitive Consultant and Podcast Host and Producer with over 16 years of experience in the field of coaching, healing, and transformation. Julie supports leaders and change makers trust their intuition, honour the wisdom of their body and use their voice for change. Julie is the host of Julie in Conversation, is the host and creator of Dance Your Intuition and offers the experience of movement and music to individuals and organizations as an opportunity to connect to and access their inner intelligence and wisdom. www.JulieinConversation.com

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Highly Sensitive Parents – A conversation with Alane Freund and Julie Cusmariu

Julie Cusmariu — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 23:03:39 +0000

And join us for the HSP Masterclass, January 20, 2023 with Alane Freund and Julie Cusmariu. If you read this after the date you can tune in to Alane’s monthly membership. Please learn more about joining our AYHS membership by clicking here.

Parents, are you…

Anxious?
Overwhelmed?
Worried about everything?
Really worried about your kids?
Thinking surely, you could do better?
Thinking you just don’t do enough?
Too angry sometimes?
So tired?
Crying easily?
At odds with or stressed by your co-parent relationship?
Feeling whiplashed from your child’s changing moods and attitudes?
ADD Parenting: Do you feel like you have attention deficit disorder?

Please join us, Julie and Alane, to talk it out. Bring your questions, concerns, and scenarios. NOTHING helps MORE than COMMUNITY.

You have the wisdom you need and sometimes just talking it out or hearing others share their experiences makes all the difference and helps you see your own answers.

(Feeling shy? You can participate in the chat and people do not ever have to be on screen in our masterclasses.)

What is the answer to all these complicated feelings? This is hard. We wish there was a magic pill or easy fix for feeling overwhelmed as a highly sensitive parent which feels just like “ADD”. Well, actually there is a simple fix, but it is way NOT EASY for most sensitive parents to implement. It’s about resting more and doing less.

MORE REST AND DOING LESS is the simple but not easy solution.

The fabulous twist on the solution is this:

More rest and doing less is also BEST for the sensitive kids… and what is good for highly sensitive children is good for all children… and what is good for the kids is good for the parents.

What will you get from this masterclass? You are going to walk away knowing that you can…

Trust your intuition and trust your parenting instincts. As an HSP you have better instincts. You CAN trust them. They should be followed and not ignored because they are spot on. You are normal. You are exactly right the way you are. What you are doing as a parent is good and right.

The monthly fee to join Are You Highly Sensitive is only $37 (no one turned away for lack of funds.) Members of AYHS have the opportunity to attend live workshops twice a month which always include themes and a live Q&A. Please learn more about joining our AYHS membership by clicking here.Remember, AYHS members receive a significant savings on each masterclass and receive recordings of every event to help you integrate the content and teach the tools to your family. Members can pre-submit questions to Alane – and they can be anonymous if you wish. Eventbrite purchases do not include the recording.

This workshop will be recorded, but participants will not be on screen except in small breakout discussion rooms (not recorded) or when volunteers choose to join the panel for live coaching.

Our workshops last between 55 and 75 minutes with an occasional overflow to 90 minutes for additional questions or discussion.

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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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