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Could I Be Highly Sensitive and Extroverted, Too?

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Patricia Young on Extroverted HSPs

You get nervous before get-togethers but enjoy them once you get there, at least for a while. Could you be a highly sensitive person and an extrovert, too? In this episode of Woman Worriers, host Elizabeth Cush and her guest, Patricia Young, talk about life as a highly sensitive extrovert.

“Being alive is messy and complicated and we can lean into the pain and we can lean into the joy”
— Patricia Young

Show Notes:

When you were growing up, you might have felt like a misfit. Now, you might feel life’s ups and downs very intensely. You might process things differently, on a deeper level. Sound familiar? You might be a highly sensitive person (HSP). It’s a trait we usually associate with introverts, but that’s not always the case. In this episode of the Woman Worriers podcast host Elizabeth Cush, LCPC, a licensed professional therapist and Life Coach for Women., welcomes Patricia Young, a social worker, coach and host of the Unapologetically Sensitive podcast, who is herself a highly sensitive person who also happens to be an extrovert. They talk about therapy and coaching, introversion and social anxiety, being highly sensitive and balancing stimulation, healing old wounds and coming to understand the gifts you have to bring to the world.

Listen and learn:

  • The relationship between introversion, social anxiety and highly sensitive extroversion

  • Why highly sensitive people so often feel like there’s something wrong with them as they’re growing up

  • How the brains of HSPs are different from the brains of the other 80 percent of the world

  • Why being transparent and honest about our feelings helps us—and everyone else

  • The four identifying characteristics of the highly sensitive trait

  • How we can have more self-compassion for our emotional reactivity

  • How being sensitive to subtleties can lead to overstimulation

  • The difficult balance that HSPs who are extroverts need to achieve to be comfortable

  • How the highly sensitive extrovert’s experience differs from other extrovert’s experiences

  • Tips for managing social anxiety

  • The first skills to work on when you discover you’re a highly sensitive person—and where to go next

  • The beautiful things that can happen when you stop trying to fix yourself

  • How the wound of “Too Much and Not Enough” shows up in our lives

  • How to tell whether you might benefit from coaching—and how the experience is different from therapy

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