Do you feel overwhelmed not just by your own intense feelings but by everyone else’s too? This episode will help you honour and appreciate your sensitive nervous system.

I (Eve Menezes Cunningham, author, columnist, trauma therapist, senior accredited supervisor, coach, trauma survivor and AuDHDer) share practical strategies for managing hyper empathy which is common with ADHD, autism, AuDHD and trauma histories.

I encourage you to create protected silence in your life, from daily meditation to weekly 12-hour mini retreats, explaining why this isn’t indulgent but can be especially helpful for sensitive nervous systems.

Using my Feel. Love. Heal. framework, I guide you through:

• Creating buffer time and space for yourself (Feel)
• Accepting your sensitivity as a superpower (Love)
• Building community support for your needs (Heal)

Perfect for trauma survivors, AuDHDers, autistic people and ADHDers (and those who identify highly sensitive people or empaths) and anyone who finds themselves absorbing everyone else’s emotions and energy.

Le grá (with love),

Eve

Resources mentioned:

• Tracy Otsuka (ADHD for Smart Ass Women) and Episode 86 for our interview
• Alice Tew & Carly Radford episode
• The Sole to Soul Circle
• 365 Ways to Feel Better book

Topics: hyper empathy, ADHD, autism, AuDHD, trauma recovery, sensitivity, boundaries, nervous system regulation, self-care

Chapters

(0:00) Overwhelmed by everyone else’s feelings

(1:00) Honouring your extra-sensitive nervous system

(2:30) When boundaries collapse under sensory overload

(3:05) The Feel. Love. Heal. framework and creating space for silence

(4:39) When life gets “too peopley”

(8:17) Sensitivity as a superpower (when you protect it)

(10:33) Healing through community and collective care

(12:20) Imagining your future self with stronger boundaries

Links

Tracy Otsuka: Episode 86

Too Sensitive? Too Much? Says Who? Episode 78 with Alice Tew and Carly Radford

Shadow Work with Black Cats and Sharks: Episode 71

Be More Cat: Episode 70

Love your inner Smelly Cat this Bealtaine and beyond Episode 56

Cattitude: Purr! Hiss! Freeze! Episode 48

Sole to Soul Circle membership (just €8/month):

https://selfcarecoaching.net/sole-to-soul-circle/

Book: 365 Ways to Feel Better

https://selfcarecoaching.net/book/

FULL TRANSCRIPT

Do you ever feel overwhelmed not just by your own intense feelings but seemingly everyone else’s feelings?

This episode, Episode 88 of the Feel Better Every Day Podcast, is for you. You can access show notes and everything else via thefeelbettereverydaypodcast.com You can subscribe wherever you want to subscribe and you