How can you heal your body as a highly sensitive person? What’s the distinction between a natural sensitivity and a developed one? When last did you connect closely with your body?
In this podcast episode, Lisa Lewis speaks about how to lean into your sensitivity to rebuild resiliency and create sustainable health with Jessi Michel Agadoni.
MEET JESSI MICHEL AGADONI
Jessi Michel Agadoni is a Natural Sensitive Health Guide. Her purpose is to help Sensitives cultivate success without succumbing to constant overwhelm, anxiety, depression, auto-immunity, or any other body imbalance that could prevent them from having the impact they are called to have on this world! Her practice, Mêrfleur Wellness, teaches Sensitives how to lean into their sensitivity to rebuild their resiliency and create sustainable health.
A gentle spirit, known for her ability to weave experience and intuition into an effective approach, Sensitives value her depth of care and consideration through their healing process. Trained as a functional nutritional therapist, board certified in holistic nutrition, and gifted with an intuitive ability to see health and stress imbalances – Jessi is uniquely called to empower her fellow Natural Sensitives. She deeply believes that if all Natural Sensitives live as their unique bodies request, the world will be a much more beautiful and peaceful place.
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IN THIS PODCAST:
- Sensitivity is not an issue
- Natural sensitivities versus developed sensitivities
- Jessi’s advice to other highly sensitive people
Sensitivity is not an issue
To be sensitive is not to be a deviation from the norm. Being a highly sensitive person is innate, natural, and normal, and is not something that has to be fixed, changed, or reduced.
[With respect to Dr. Elaine Aaron] I felt like [HSP] didn’t quite capture the joy and the beauty of our sensitivity, and then on the other side since I’m in the health world, the term “sensitive” is used commonly to describe the state of dysfunction or disease … [as if] sensitivities are things you want to get rid of.
Jessi Michel Agadoni
For Jessi, as a highly sensitive person with a sensitive body that she had to learn how to take care of through specialists, she wanted to create a term that would give HSPs (and their bodies) a category that would allow them access to the correct care.
She came up with the term “natural sensitive” to describe someone sensitive from birth as opposed to having developed a sensitivity over time.
Even natural sensitives have developed sensitivities … there’s a journey for us to in that we get to uncover what is our natural sensitivity versus what is a developed sensitivity.
Jessi Michel Agadoni
Natural sensitivities versus developed sensitivities
There is no clear box between natural sensitivities and developed ones, but there are some common examples, such as reading the room.
Most highly sensitive people can walk into a room and understand the unspoken dynamics almost immediately because they can sense the feelings within the space. This is a natural sensitivity of most HSP.
However, if you walk into a room and you feel strong hypervigilance that feels like you cannot let go of a fear to please people or to maintain a sense of peace. This is a trauma response, and that is a developed sensitivity.
That’s part of the healing which is relaxing and releasing that rigidity because we’ve been so conditioned to solve and fix ourselves because from day one, we’ve been told that something’s wrong.
Jessi Michel Agadoni
The healthiest thing that you can do is to relax into yourself. Allow yourself to begin not assuming that something is wrong and that if something is unhealthy that it will be released over time. Let go of some of that, “I need to fix myself”, mentality.
Jessi’s advice to other highly sensitive people
Reconnect with your body! Many highly sensitive people are out of touch with their physical selves because they might have (incorrectly) been taught to distrust their bodies due to their higher levels of sensitivity.
This is the number one … root cause issue that can develop into expressions, either emotionally or physically, that are unhealthy or inauthentic for us, and that is [that] we were taught from day one to distrust our body and distrust ourselves.
Jessi Michel Agadoni
Reconnecting with your body is a powerful and necessary way to improve your healing. To know how you feel, what you feel, where it is felt.
Take your symptoms seriously instead of pushing them away, and seek medical attention when you know it is needed.
So, if we can heal that [bodily connection] and learn how to actually trust ourselves and trust what our body tells us, that will reorient our entire life.
Jessi Michel Agadoni
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ABOUT THE AM I OK? PODCAST
So you’ve been told that you’re “too sensitive” and perhaps you replay situations in your head. Wondering if you said something wrong? You’re like a sponge, taking in every word, reading all situations. Internalizing different energies, but you’re not sure what to do with all of this information. You’re also not the only one asking yourself, “am I ok?” Lisa Lewis is here to tell you, “It’s totally ok to feel this way.”
Join Lisa, a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, as she hosts her, Am I Ok? Podcast. With over 20 years of education, training, and life experience, she specializes in helping individuals with issues related to being an empath and a highly sensitive person.
Society, and possibly your own experiences, may have turned your thinking of yourself as being a highly sensitive person into something negative. Yet, in reality, it is something that you can – and should – take ownership of. It’s the sixth sense to fully embrace, which you can harness to make positive changes in your life and in the lives of others.
This may all sound somewhat abstract, but on the Am I Ok? Podcast, Lisa shares practical tips and advice you can easily apply to your own life. Lisa has worked with adults from various backgrounds and different kinds of empaths, and she’s excited to help you better connect with yourself. Are you ready to start your journey?