If you’ve ever felt the ache of loneliness and longing for deeper connection as a highly sensitive person, or wondered where you truly belong, then today’s episode is for you.

I’m joined by psychotherapist and community builder Cindy Gale, who has dedicated her work to empowering HSPs through both individual healing and the healing that comes with genuine connection. She shares her journey of discovering her own high sensitivity, why community is essential for our well-being, and the beautiful vision behind her innovative platform, HSP Connect.

In this episode, Cindy shares:

• How discovering her high sensitivity helped her reframed her life and profession.
• Why HSPs need community for deeper healing.
• The vision behind HSP Connect.
• How grief and sensitivity can become gateways to resilience and joy.
• The beauty of shared experiences among HSPs.

Topics covered:

• Cindy’s journey into activism, psychotherapy, and HSP-focused work.
• The role of Elaine Aron’s research in understanding sensitivity.
• Why loneliness is a growing issue for HSPs and how to address it.
• The importance of rituals and “The Work That Reconnects.”
• How vantage sensitivity allows HSPs to experience joy and deep connection.

About Cindy Gale:

Cindy Gale is the creator of the HSPConnect.app community and a psychotherapist working with Highly Sensitive People. With a background that spans engineering, physics, psychotherapy, management consulting, shamanic practice, setting up charities and a published author, Cindy brings a powerful blend of experience and insight to our HSP community.

She supports HSPs in discovering and living their authentic selves and is sparking local HSP support and social groups across the world, helping sensitive souls collaborate, create, and connect.

Cindy is a long time Active Hope (aka Work That Reconnects) facilitator helping people to foster resilience in the face of global crises. Her mission is to help people deepen their relationship with themselves, others, and the natural world.

Follow along on Cindy’s journey:

Website: https://cindygalehsp.com/

HSP Connect: https://hspconnect.app/

***Use code HAPPYHSP to gain access to 20% off the standard price of HSPConnect.app for the first year of membership. Offer valid until October 31, 2025.

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About Kimberly:

Kimberly Marshall is a career coach for highly sensitive people (HSPs) and host of The Happy HSP Podcast. After 20 years in the publishing industry working for companies like Time Inc., Monster.com, and W. W. Norton, she left her corporate career to pursue work that better suited her HSP needs. She now helps HSPs overcome burnout and low confidence in the workplace and create gentle and nurturing careers that bring them lots of purpose, meaning, and joy.

Through her work and creative ventures, Kimberly hopes to shed more light on the reality of living with high sensitivity and inspire more HSPs to embrace their empathetic, loving, and gentle natures.

• Hosted/produced by Kimberly Marshall
• Edited by Fonzie Try Media
• Artwork by Tara Corola
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