What if your sensitivity wasn’t something to hide, but a powerful guide to living with an abundance of clarity, creativity, and connection?

In this heartfelt episode of The Happy HSP Podcast, Jess Kachelman of Sensitive Women Rising shares how she discovered she was an HSP later in life, and how that realization transformed her. From feeling “too much” and difficult to love, to now embracing her intuition and creativity as her guiding lights, Jess’s story is a reminder that our perceived weaknesses can hold the key to our greatest strengths.

Listen along as Jess shares her journey from believing her sensitive nature was something to fix to learning how to embrace it as a gift, including how she:

• parents her HSP children.
• deepens her self-compassion.
• uses social media to support other HSPs.
• taps into her creativity to build authentic connection in new and meaningful ways.

This episode is for any HSP who feels as though their sensitivity makes them “different” and “not enough,” as so many of us do. Join us as we explore practical ways to speak to yourself with more love, trust your intuition, and lead a more values-aligned life.

Topics covered:

• Finding your HSP identity through social media.
• Reframing sensitivity as strength, not weakness.
• Overcoming shame and silencing your inner critic.
• Parenting highly sensitive children with empathy.
• Redefining creativity through authenticity and connection.
• Using intuition to make aligned life choices.
• Building community through vulnerability and confidence.

About Jess Kachelman:

Jess is a personal development coach and the creator of Sensitive Women Rising. She specializes in helping highly sensitive women rediscover their identity, build self-confidence, and create lives filled with purpose and fulfillment. Drawing from her own journey of transforming sensitivity from a challenge into a strength, Jess has developed powerful tools and methods, like her R.I.S.E. method, to guide women toward inner peace and self-acceptance. She’s here to share her insights on finding happiness and embracing sensitivity as the beautiful gift that it is.

Follow along with Jess’s journey:

Website: sensitivewomenrising.com

Instagram: @sensitivewomenrising

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About Kimberly:

After 20 years in the publishing industry working for companies like Time Inc., Monster.com, and W. W. Norton, Kimberly Marshall left her corporate work to create a more nurturing career that better suited her as an HSP. After repeatedly struggling with burnout and low confidence in the workplace, she now helps HSPs create careers that bring them lots of purpose, meaning, and joy. With the Happy HSP Podcast, Kimberly hopes to shed more light on the reality of living with high sensitivity and inspire more HSPs to embrace their empathetic, generous, and loving natures.

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