Sara Hartley explains why highly sensitive people snap at those closest to them. When your body constantly detects threat in a room's energy, you eventually overflow, and safe people bear the brunt. She connects this to ADHD, autoimmune disease, and trauma.
blessing and a curse about someone who does feel everything. You walk into a room, you feel that energy, you know immediately, is this a safe place? Your body is telling you this way before your brain is even understanding. You're feeling that energy and whether or not you should be there or not.
She has her own really, really cool story about why she became awoken to the work she's now doing, why she's so passionate about it. Guys, please help me welcome the one and only Sarah Hartley.
It's coming out somewhere, and it typically is Unfortunately, given to— To everybody you love most. Exactly. The people that you— They can take it.
Right. Yeah.
The people you love more than anything because you know they're the safe place, because you know they're not going to run. They're kind of stuck with you, in essence. We all have something, and whether that is ADHD, whether that is an autoimmune disease or chronic illness or trauma, finding that community and connection with other people who are going through the same thing, I think, is so What I want to create is that community to share with one another and talk to one another and have someone just feel a little bit less alone in their own brains, in their own bodies, no matter what age they are.
