Emotional Agency 101: The Master Skill for HSPs in Relationships

About this episode

This episode discusses Emotional Agency, a crucial skill for highly sensitive people to manage their emotional experiences in relationships.

213 If you often feel triggered, hurt by, or really impacted by what’s happening in your relationship, this episode will help you understand why–and what to do to leave this painful pattern behind. We’re talking about Emotional Agency — the master skill that allows highly sensitive people to guide their emotional experience, instead of being run by it. Most highly sensitive people were never taught how to work with their inner world in a way that creates real emotional steadiness. So in...

People in this episode

Host: Hannah Brooks

Topics covered

• Emotional Agency
• Highly Sensitive People
• Relationships
• Emotional Experience
• Emotional Steadiness

Keywords

• emotional agency
• highly sensitive people
• relationships
• emotional steadiness
• triggers
• emotional experience

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