Discovering the Puzzle Pieces That Make You, You with Barbera Schouten

This conversation with Barbera Schouten today left me with more questions than answers, and to me, that's the sign of a good conversation. Barbera is an experienced transformational coach, speaker and author. She has helped thousands of highly sensitive people (HSP's), empaths, intuitives and spiritual entrepreneurs all over the world embrace and accept themselves fully and connect to their true, authentic self. In the episode, Barbera shares how she finally leaned into being a HSP after experiencing extreme burnout. You'll also hear more about the different personality traits she's leaned into that ultimately helped her thrive in business and beyond. I learned a lot from her and I hope you will, too!

Topics Discussed:

• Barbera's story with experiencing burnout after ignoring her highly sensitive qualities and why she's ultimately grateful for that period in her life
• The different personality qualities that Barbera has adopted throughout her journey of coming home to herself – ambivert, sigma female, thrill seeker, empath, manifesting generator
• Pushing back against the idea of needing to create a "thick skin" and what to aim for instead, especially as an empath
• Authenticity as the strongest vibrational energy and the strongest way of being that has the greatest pull, even above love
• The practices that Barbera would invite others to begin with when coming home to themselves

Episode Resources:

• Listen to Barbera's episode of the HSP Summit
• Eckhart Tolle
• Human Design
• Gene Keys
• NovoPsych: Scale of Positive and Negative Experience (SPANE)

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