Loving on Your Highly Sensitive and Empathic Parts

Hi beautiful friends, this is my very first time making a video for Substack but to be really honest, I’d rather talk than write any day of the week, so I’m giving this a shot!

I have a feeling a lot of the people who follow along with my work tend to be highly sensitive, feeling, empathic beings. This week I heard Alanis Morissette on the You Can Do Hard Things podcast. I’ve liked her since I was in 10th grade when Jagged Little Pill came out but I’ve grown to CHERISH her these past 5 years as I’ve learned more about her wholeness journey. Her wisdom and embodied knowledge blows me away! I listened to this episode and cried my eyes out feeling like someone put into words my experience of being a human.

In the video I share my experience of going from thinking I was an Enneagram 7 extrovert and not knowing I was an HSP or an off-the-charts empath. I don’t believe we have to over identify with these parts of us but I do believe these are super helpful tools to help us understand ourselves better. 

Here are some great resources on these topics. My favorite podcast on the Enneagram is by Sleeping At Last who wrote a song for each number and did a podcast explaining it. (This is how I realized I was a 4!)

⇒You can check it out here.

• The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You, by Elaine N. Aron

• Sensitive Is the New Strong: The Power of Empaths in an Increasingly Harsh World, by Anita Moorjani

• The Journey Toward Wholeness: Enneagram Wisdom for Stress, Balance, and Transformation, by Suzanne Stabile

• I am obsessed with Internal Family Systems and this book No Bad Parts written by its creator has Alanis as the forward. I love her heart and her mind so so much. 

I love you all and all your big feelings, sensitivities and parts,

love Ruthie

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1. Get in Touch With Your Feelings, With Amber Rae - A Love’s Invitation Special Event

Hello beautiful souls,

I’m so excited for our special event that will help you Get In Touch With Your Feelings with my dear friend, Amber Rae, on Tuesday, March 26th at 1:00 pm CST! If you haven’t registered yet, make sure you do below (this will be recorded).

As a reminder, this event is part of our monthly live offering for paid subscribers only - if you’re not a paid subscriber yet and would like to sign up for $6/month, you can sign up using the button below and then come back to this post to register!

And going forward, ALL paid subscribers will be sent the Monthly Live event recordings whether you register or not, BUT if you’d like to attend live, you’ll need to register ahead of time.In this conversation and workshop with bestselling author, speaker & journaling mentor Amber Rae we’ll discuss the realm of emotions, including: 

• The importance of opening into curiosity with our emotions

• Why emotions aren’t good or bad but rather neutral messengers

• How to acknowledge and name what we feel

• The stories and meaning we may create

• How to harness the wisdom of our emotions

Amber will guide us through her most transformative journaling practice, bringing us into a personal conversation with our emotions and inner support.

Here’s a little bit more about Amber:

Amber Rae is an international bestselling author, speaker, and journaling expert who’s on a mission to help people harness the wisdom of their emotions. She’s the author of Choose Wonder Over Worry, The Answers Are Within You, and most recently, The Feelings Journal. Her writing and illustrations reach nine million people per month in over 195 countries, and her work has been featured in The New York Times, New York Magazine, TODAY, SELF, Forbes, and Entrepreneur. As a keynote speaker and teacher, Amber’s spoken and led workshops at celebrated brands Kate Spade, Microsoft, Merrill Lynch, Lululemon, Unilever, and TED, among others. Through her website and popular social media channels, she's launched public art movements, global journaling challenges, and life accelerator programs. Previously, Amber helped Seth Godin launch a publishing venture with Amazon, and worked with brands like Apple, Dove, and Kimberly Clarke on their marketing campaigns. 

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• Amber’s Feeling Journal: Click Here

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