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Worthy of Love Podcast - Self Exploration: Am I a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)? with Lucy Newport

If you’ve ever wondered whether you might be a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP), or how sensitivity might shape your relationship with food, self-worth, and even love, this conversation is for you.

I recently joined Cilia Antoniou on her podcast Worthy of Love to explore the gifts and challenges of high sensitivity - and how it connects to binge eating recovery. Cilia and I first met back in 2022 in a group coaching program, and I’m so grateful for the friendship and working relationship we’ve built since. She brings such grounded wisdom to conversations around worth, love, and embodiment, and I know you’ll feel that in this episode.

In this conversation, we explore:

🦋 What makes HSPs highly sensitive

🦋 How HSPs benefit those close to them, as well as the wider community

🦋 Some of the gifts that come with being a HSP

🦋 How high sensitivity and binge eating can be linked

🦋 What the binge eating recovery journey for HSPs can look like

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Insights from our conversation

Lucy: “When I feel the fear it’s really not as I always thought it would be. And I’m always surprised when I’m actually with it, how okay I am with it.”

Cilia: “All of those facets of being human, they aren’t good or bad. And when we allow ourselves to feel all of those facets, then we become more whole and we become more, you know, we step into what you said of really realising like, I’m actually okay. I’m good.”

Lucy: “Something that is very common in Highly Sensitive People, and something that I really relate to, is that when we get overwhelmed, which can happen quite easily, we tend to shut off our senses and feel as though we’re kind of less sensitive because we’re protecting ourselves from this sensitivity that can feel a lot.”

Lucy: “Diversity is something that’s essential to life. And it’s easy for us to see it in nature and understand that we need a diversity in the food we grow because it’s beneficial to the soil and to our health. But in humans, in us, I think we’re getting better at it, but we still struggle to see the benefits of having this diversity.

And when you can understand that, it’s easier to rest into your own gifts. It’s easier to see your own place within the community rather than feeling like you have to fit every box.”

Cilia: “On this show I love talking about healthy relationships and I feel like this is the key to being able to cultivate healthy relationships - it’s relaxing into the truth of who you are.”

Lucy: “When we’re picking up on all of these messages and we’re believing that we’re only loveable and worthy and enough when we look a certain way. It’s detaching from all of that and really connecting to that innate worth that’s within you, that’s within all of us. That is unwavering, unchanging. There is nothing you could do to dampen that worth. It’s just there, it just is.

So really connecting to this so that you can then build a more healthy sense of self-worth on top of that. That really is the root. That is at the base of binge eating and binge eating disorder. You can’t not address that.”

Want to go deeper?

If this conversation around sensitivity, self-worth, and food resonated with you, I created The Highly Sensitive Woman’s Guide to a Binge Free Life for you.

This free in-depth guide will teach you:

🌿How to create genuine safety within yourself as a HSP

🌿Ways to honour your sensitivity while building a peaceful relationship with food

🌿How to let go of feelings of “not enough” and connect more to your innate-worth 

🌿Practical steps to unravel binge eating cycles that work with your HSP nature

🌿How to embrace your authentic self rather than trying to "fit in"

It includes the six principles that I talk about in this episode of the Worthy of Love Podcast, and has plenty of practical, small steps to get you started.

I’m excited to share these insights with you because I know how painful and isolating binge eating can be. But I also know the peace and freedom that is present when you work with your sensitivity as your recovery path.

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