SENSI: Empowerment For Pussies

Let us look at consciousness not as something we decide with—but something we see from . In this episode, we draw a crucial distinction between consciousness and conscience —between awareness itself and the impulse to judge, analyze, discern, and decide. We are gonna slow everything down and return to the place before meaning, before hierarchy, before right and wrong. This is an episode about seei...

Sensitivity & Imagination explores imagination as the fertile ground where identity, meaning, and transformation begin. In this episode, we examine sensitivity as a domain of perception, vulnerability, and energy—where possibilities remain fluid before they harden into fixed forms. Imagination is not an escape from reality, but the bridge between inner experience and lived life: the space wher...

Welcome back to SENSI - a week late, and not as intended. This re-exploration of vulnerability and its relationship to sensitivity kept slipping through my grasp and took an unintended direction. Listen to explore how: vulnerability and sensitivity are the same thing, how we can create a concept and relationship with the former to aid in a positive expression of our strengths, our interaction with...

Welcome back to the second and final part of SENSITIVITY and ENERGY. This episode we go deeper into what we established in part one - energy and form - by discussing meaning. "Meaning is how we seal form" I repeat, and learning how to slip into and expand those moments and our understanding of them is the game. That is where our power lies to influence the momentum of meanings we experience, alter...

Welcome to the first full episode of season two! We are starting at the beginning. To unwind the convoluted stories, relationships, and identity we have (been stuck with), we are taking it down to energy. We are looking inside of those monuments we have erected and excavating ourselves from the burden of them. In this episode, we talk about the difference between energy and form, what energy feels...

Welcome back! This intro episode picks up where we left off last season, with rupture, and pairs it with its counterpart, rapture. In this episode we recap last seasons journey and set forth what this season is about. We discuss why we fear rupture and begin to familiarize ourselves with the rapture in our experiences that we all want, highlight rapture with an example from Inside Out 2, get into...

The finale of season one is upon us and in it we discuss rupture: Energy, generated. Energy that wants to go somewhere. Energy that HAS to go somewhere. Our emotions are energy and this energy informs our behaviours. This energy underlies confusion, misunderstanding, ill-timed and ill-expressed behaviours as well as fuels transformation. What we do with it matters. It is worth experiencing because...

(TW) Now that the concept of sensitivity has been explored in its own right, let's visit oversensitivity and see what is left. Trigger warning because self-harm and death are mentioned again. Recorded May 31, 2024. If you want to learn more find me on Instagram at either @shaebutinallcaps or @hh.almanac

In the previous episode, we begin to play with the idea of our self-image and sense of self, what undermines it and how we can build it into a space where the stereotype is a non-issue. In this episode, I continue with this idea. Recorded April 28, 2024. If you want to learn more find me on Instagram at either @shaebutinallcaps or @hh.almanac

I open the episode referring to the third episode about’ erecting a monument to our feelings’… this episode does not exist. It was removed because I raaaambled the most ramble I’ve ever rambled and never got to the point. Don’t worry, I discuss it in depth enough in this episode. This episode and the next "SENSITIVITY and A SENSE OF SELF" were recorded as one so this one is deeply discussing our s...

As mentioned in the self-pity episode, we sensites hold tight to our hurts because we want to give them the consideration we feel they lack from others. This can cause further damage, yes, but in this episode, I share my personal experience with this habit and how it has been an important resource in my life. Recorded December 29, 2023. If you want to learn more find me on Instagram at either @sha...

The use of manipulation has been mentioned before in the crying episode but in this episode we focus on the five W’s of manipulation itself (the who, what, where, when, and why) and its relationship with a lack of boundaries I iterate three beliefs I hold which inform my perspective and this podcast: (1) All things have an emotional response, (2) emotion is not behaviour, and (3) when we refuse to...

(TW) Sensitive people are not by nature destructive people. When it becomes destructive it is necessary to ask what caused that destruction. And, how can resources serve us better? Trigger warning for sensitive topics regarding mental health and the addictive (as well as other harmful) behaviours that can happen as a result. I want to note that when I discuss the unhelpful assistance of loved ones...

Episode thirteen, although related to episode twelve, is not about “being offended”. It is about being the offense: rubbing people the wrong way, making others uncomfortable, and feeling unwelcome, all without knowing why (and not for a lack of inquiry or desire to understand). This experience underlies the move toward anti-socialness. Recorded November 19, 2023. If you want to learn more find me...

Episode twelve focuses on the sensite’s response to (perceived) indiscretions. This episode was originally titled “SENSITIVITY and A SENSE OF HUMOUR” or “SENSITIVITY as BEING OFFENDED BY EVERYTHING”. Recorded October 23, 2023. If you want to learn more find me on Instagram at either @shaebutinallcaps or @hh.almanac

This episode goes off on the definitions of a word and applying those definitions to different aspects of sensitivity to help challenge the unconscious beliefs we hold regarding the two “opposites”. Takeaway? Your relationship with your emotions doesn’t have to be a power struggle. Woot woot. Recorded October 7, 2023. If you want to learn more find me on Instagram at either @shaebutinallcaps or @h...

Welcome to the halfway point of the season. How is it holding up so far? Lemme know. In this episode, I focus on how the ‘weakness’ of a sensite’s character creates environments of being patronized and the impacts of this ‘emotional conservatorship’. Recorded September 24, 2023. If you want to learn more find me on Instagram at either @shaebutinallcaps or @hh.almanac

Can you think of any more supreme example of the stereotype? Yes, crying can be a resource and has legitimate benefits for us but it can be a cop out. I talk about why it is a go-to and how we do it a disservice through our misuse of it. Recorded September 11, 2023. If you want to learn more find me on Instagram at either @shaebutinallcaps or @hh.almanac

Again, pretty self-explanatory. A preoccupation with self. Egotistical. A non-resourceful state. But as the point always is here, we discuss the how and why. We bring to light how, although licking our wounds isn’t integrity, we have learned that holding onto our hurts is a way of protecting ourselves because they have been disregarded so many times. Luckily, we can harness this energy in better w...

The first time the podcast is named! Here is your official welcome to SENSI. Happy that you are here! This episode is one I am partial to. I didn’t know it going in but I appreciate how the concept was verbalized and will be revisited numerous times throughout season one. Being anti-social is dubbed a negative quality by social standing. In this episode, I discuss how it can serve as a haven for p...

In this episode, we discuss the rigidity of social etiquette and how it can trap or aggravate sensitivity, and I propose the idea of emotional etiquette to inform social etiquette. Recorded August 7, 2023. If you want to learn more find me on Instagram at either @shaebutinallcaps or @hh.almanac

This episode is pointed toward sensitive people and a shortfall that undermines our integrity. This shortfall is the correlation we assume between (1) our feelings and our behaviours, and (2) our feelings with another person's intentions. Because of this, we - the "sensitive" person - end up behaving insensitively. Recorded July 30, 2023. If you want to learn more find me on Instagram at either @s...

The title is self-explanatory. The stereotype of ‘you can’t handle emotions’, and ‘you can’t see beyond your current perspective’, includes your reactivity. So how is it a fair judgement? Because although the stereotype is dehumanizing we can’t deny that there are examples of our reactivity that we know to be true (and damn does that piss us off). So how can we face this behaviour while honouring...

And we hit our stride! Welcome to the beginning of full-length episodes. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. As a sensitive person, you have likely been told that you take yourself too seriously. You are self-involved. You are selfish. In this episode, we are riffing on the ideas around the unavoidability of having an ego, having a healthy ego, what it can do for you, and where the tipping poin...

When does ‘Pull up your bootstraps!’, ‘Toughen up!’, and ‘Take it like a man!’ mean ‘your humanity is showing’ and we don’t like it? The stereotype says that sensitive people can’t handle their own emotions. I say denying that emotions are a permanent fixture of the human condition isn’t ‘handling it’. Discounting emotions is what is done when that’s all one can bear to do… But what if we can do b...