Highly Sensitive People & Empath Coaching

Being highly sensitive and/or an empath is not a disorder or a mental condition. These are both considered human personality traits. Research shows that genetics and environmental factors play a key role in the inheritability and development of these traits.

Worldwide, 1 in 5 people are highly sensitive and research shows that 1 - 2 percent of the population are empaths, although that percentage may actually be higher. HSPs are often empaths but not all empaths are HSPs.

Highly Sensitive People and Empaths are extremely gifted, super intelligent, compassionate, creative, intuitive, sensory-oriented, amazing visionaries, possess an entrepreneurial spirit, are very attuned to other people’s needs, and are very adept at problem-solving.

On the flip side, Highly Sensitive People and Empaths often:

• Have an intensely overactive mind

• Are deeply impacted by the feelings and emotions of others

• Can become overwhelmed by loud noises, bright lights, strong smells, and fabrics

• Experience the world on an intense level and become easily startled 

• Are perfectionists and have high standards for themselves and others

• Become easily overwhelmed by tasks that they perceive as difficult or that require them to multitask

• Internalize the slightest feedback as criticism and then shutdown

• Have a difficult time setting boundaries

• May find it hard to watch or read about violent or disturbing events in the news

• Have a hard time feeling safe in crowds 

• Become easily exhausted mentally, emotionally, and physically without knowing why

• Can have low self-esteem and feels misunderstood by others

• Have an over sensitized nervous system

While there are so many overlapping similarities between an HSP and an Empath, the main difference is that Empaths experience emotions that other people feel as their own and sometimes cannot differentiate which causes chaos in their own life.