Rethinking Parenting, Education, and Society Through the HSP Lens

In this episode, I sit down with Amy Vasterling — public speaker, author, teacher, and intuitive — to explore how HSPs can transform parenting, education, and society. Amy and I discuss the concept of expressive expansion, reframing the role of sensitivity in society, and how to create systems that allow HSPs to pave the path to a thriving society that works for all.

Amy shares:

• How early experiences of feeling misunderstood shaped her perspective on parenting and education.
• The importance of seeing patterns and anticipating societal changes as an HSP.
• Why highly sensitive children can become changemakers when supported correctly.
• Real-life examples of helping children fill in their own learning gaps while cultivating independence.
• The idea of collapsing narcissistic patterns in society to allow expressive expansion.
• Practical approaches to helping highly sensitive people (children and adults) thrive while maintaining their unique perspective and autonomy.

Topics covered:

• Early childhood development for highly sensitive children.
• Differences in cultural approaches to nurturing sensitivity.
• The role of highly sensitive people as protectors and changemakers in society.
• Strategies for education that work for HSPs and everyone else.
• Overcoming societal hierarchies and narcissistic social patterns.
• How embracing uniqueness leads to natural equality and societal benefit.

About Amy Vasterling:

Amy Cerny Vasterling is a public speaker, author, teacher, and intuitive sharing the importance of returning to your personal knowing.  

Amy observed the recurrence of people’s aim to tell others “I know better for you than you know for yourself” and realized this was a key to the full story of the insecurity behind it all. Amy believes humanity has a great future as we mature emotionally and leave something she calls The Model behind. 

Now, she empowers individuals and communities to return to the truth of who they are so they can restore human connection, find where they truly belong, and fully live life.

Follow along on Amy’s journey:

Website: www.amyvasterling.com

YouTube: www.youtube.com/@AmyCernyVasterling

Instagram: www.instagram.com/amyvasterling/

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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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