Gentle Power is dedicated to helping naturally more sensitive people (a.k.a HSPs or Highly Sensitive People)* to find alternatives to recurring overwhelm, whether it bugs them in work related interactions or in their physical space.
In other words there is coaching and/or decluttering coaching available here.
I champion the unique rhythm I’ve noticed is characteristic to more sensitive folk.
First, there can be a seemingly long “incubation” period but then, given gentleness and presence, there’s more than progress: there’s a quantum leap.
My Gentle Power mission is to champion natural alignment
The world is slow to acknowledge that there is no recipe or a way of living that works for everyone.
But the most honest of us have noticed that worthy “shoulds’ simply don’t work and that it takes a persistent quest to discover what’s authentic and effective for an individual.
Therefore Gentle Power champions quests for better options including:
1. Empathy and championing during the initial, inevitable period of acute “wobbliness”.
2. The missing validation, championing and belonging. If you are a naturally more sensitive adult today, very likely your sensitivity would not have been understood as healthy in your childhood.
People would not have known how to support you!
The natural trait of heightened sensitivity was not discovered till 1990’s and it’s still little recognised, understood or appreciated in the general culture.
I work to bridge that gap so that you can live and work in the way that is doable and enjoyable for you.
3. Encouragement and skill training so that the change you experience inside can take root also in the practical reality. And so you can handle similar challenges with more ease in the future.
The missing skills I offer are in these two areas:
a) how to de-escalate your overstimulated inner state
b) how to connect across differences, for mutual dignity and good (whether with a part of yourself or with a “challenging other”).
You may have a highly sensitive constitution if…
If you are not sure what I mean by sensitive constitution, I’m referring to a healthy trait present both in human and animal populations as distinct from any disorder or deficit.
In that, I appreciate the work and overview provided by Dr Elaine Aron who is one of the pioneering researchers of natural sensitivity and who has provided the following summary of HSP characteristics (via an acronym DOES):
D = deep processing (of life, information, stimuli and meaning)
O = overstimulation (as a likely experience if the environment is too intense)
E = emotional intensity (deeper and more vivid experience of emotions)
S = sensory sensitivity (more intensely affected by light, sound, touch, smell etc.)
Accessing Support
1. If you’re drawn to my work, you can try out my style of support for free and without any strings attached.
I encourage you to decide who to trust based on looking them up and on how you feel TALKING to them.
If you’re seeing and loving yourself more while with me, we may be a good fit.
If not, please assume that there is another, more naturally aligned support for you elsewhere.
You’re welcome to take advantage of my free Orientation/Q&A Session (by Zoom or phone).
It offers a conversation of up to 30 min to briefly explore what you need and the resources I know and trust in relation to that.
Whether we decide to work together or not, you’ll be richer by the initial tips and resources I will share in that conversation.
2. If you feel safe, supported and encouraged after our initial free session, we’ll make agreements about how we’ll work together. I’ll send you a proposal document listing the agreed number of sessions, fees, and my and your commitments in the process.
Clear agreements are important so that you know what you can expect from me and how you need to participate to benefit from the time we have together.
3. We’ll start and complete our journey by checking in with your needs, vision and resources to hold you.
Beginnings and ends are important on the journey and we’ll mark those with special care. After we complete, you’ll take away the newly cultivated skills and doable resources to hold you steady as you go on.
Any questions at this stage, please use this message page
or
Think out loud about what you need in my Free Q&A Call