The Happy HSP Podcast

Career Journeys, Motherhood, and Healing as a Highly Sensitive Person

Kimberly Marshall Episode 15

In this episode of The Happy HSP Podcast, host Kimberly Marshall is turning the microphone inward to share her own story as a highly sensitive person. From discovering she was an HSP at just 19 — to navigating motherhood, career burnout, and a deep healing and spiritual journey — she shares many of the challenges she’s faced with her sensitivity along with the growth she’s experienced over the years.

If you’re an HSP who has struggled with your confidence and finding the strength to stand up for your needs in the workplace or relationships, then this episode is for you. 

Kimberly shares:

  • How she first discovered she was a highly sensitive person in her teenage years.
  • The role that motherhood played in deepening her understanding of her sensitivity.
  • The struggles she faced in her career with confidence and burnout as an HSP.
  • Her journey to standing up for her needs in relationships and the workplace.

Topics covered:

  • High sensitivity and self-discovery in motherhood.
  • The challenges of being an HSP in work and family life.
  • The connection between empathy and healing.
  • Finding a career with lots of purpose, meaning, and joy.
  • Developing self-awareness and resilience as an HSP.

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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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