264. Big Feelings, Big Joy: Why Your Capacity for Pain Is Also Your Capacity for Joy w/ April Snow, HSP Author & Therapist

In this episode, Alissa welcomes April Snow back to the podcast to celebrate her new book, Big Feelings, Big Joy, and to talk about why having everyday language for being highly sensitive makes it something you can own instead of explain away.

Sensitive people are often told they're fragile. April and Alissa share the research and the lived experience that say otherwise.

Alissa and April trade personal stories, from feeling different as kids to writing books during some of the hardest seasons of their lives, along with the small daily practices that keep them steady. Sensitivity isn't fragility, it's the capacity to feel the hard and the good at full volume and grow stronger from both.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• What April's signature acronym, ORCHID, stands for 
• Why differential susceptibility is an HSPs greatest gift. 
• How a nervous system that moves in and out of different states is healthy, and why stretching toward what's meaningful expands your capacity
• What tiny pockets of transition time and fewer daily decisions can do for your overwhelm
• How savoring good moments became a life raft in April's childhood and still carries her through hard seasons
• Why joy and grief can be held at the same time, and how connecting to something bigger than yourself makes that possible

Connect with April:
https://www.sensitivestrengths.com
https://www.instagram.com/sensitivestrengths
Big Feelings, Big Joy: https://www.bigfeelingsbigjoy.com/book

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