High Sensitivity & Self-Compassion

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Episode 1 season 6: Biz Cush on How to Soften Self-Judgment

Welcome back to the new season of the Awaken Your Wise Woman podcast! This week, host Elizabeth Cush shares personal insights into sensitivity, shares what’s in store for the coming season and invites you to join a unique community.


Our relationship with ourself is the most important relationship we can have.
— Biz Cush

Show Notes:

Welcome back, lovely listeners! And a warm welcome to anyone who is new to the Awaken Your Wise Woman podcast! As the summer winds down and fall knocks at the door (at least in the northern hemisphere), we usher in Season 6 with a continued focus on highly sensitive women. In this brand-new episode, host Biz Cush, LCPC, a licensed professional therapist, founder of Progression Counseling in Maryland and Delaware, and a life coach for highly sensitive women, talks about the new season, sensitivity and the need for more self-compassion. She shares stories and insights from her own personal journey and invites listeners to join her in a sacred support circle for sensitive women.

Listen and learn:

  • Why you don’t have to be highly sensitive yourself to benefit from listening to the Awaken your Wise Woman podcast

  • How doing Internal Family Systems (IFS), or “parts” work has enabled Biz to grow

  • The one major theme that consistently comes up as a challenge for clients from all works of life

  • Why self-compassion is such a challenge, especially for highly sensitive women

  • The ways in which self-compassion—or the lack of it—can affect our relationships with others

  • The lies our inner critic tells us in an attempt to protect us from painful feelings

  • The advantage of feeling compassion for, instead of judging, our younger selves

  • The simple practice that Biz uses to recenter herself when that ultra-critical voice tries to sneak in and be heard

  • How to find a community of women who understand what it is like to be highly sensitive

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