Send us a text As a highly sensitive woman, is your experience of menopause different from other women you know? Do you feel misunderstood by helping professionals & aren’t getting what you need from them? Esther shares her top tips to make this season of change easier to manage as a highly sensitive woman. In this episode, Esther discusses the unique experiences of highly sensitive women during menopause. She outlines five characteristics that differentiate their experiences and offers ...
Send us a text Are you a highly sensitive person (HSP) in need of some tools to build & maintain healthy relationships? Esther Kane, @compassionateconversations441 discusses the importance of self-reflection in building healthy relationships & emphasizes the need to go slowly & to check in with emotions & physical sensations. Chapters 00:00 Building Healthy Relationships Through Self-Reflection 04:03 Understanding Energy Dynamics in Relationships 05:17 The Importance...
Send us a text Are you a highly sensitive person who struggles with relationships? Do you feel that the relationships in your life mostly drain you? It doesn't have to be this way. Listen to this episode to learn how to set boundaries & create healthy relationships which nourish & uplift. In this conversation, Esther Kane discusses the unique challenges and strengths of highly sensitive people (HSPs) in relationships. She emphasizes the importance of self-care, setting boundaries, an...
Send us a text Are you a highly sensitive woman going through perimenopause? In this episode, two HSP psychotherapists, (who are themselves navigating the menopausal transition), discuss the shortcomings of the medical system, the importance of healing past traumas and losses, developing agency, and the journey towards self-discovery and joy. In this conversation, Esther Kane, MSW and Michele Jenkins, MSW, discuss the emotional and psychological challenges women face during perimenopause. T...
Send us a text Are you afraid of menopause because you've heard horror stories from older women? In this episode, Esther Kane, women's psychotherapist (25+yrs), interviews Susan Willson, Nurse Midwife & author of Making Sense of Menopause. They discuss how this stage of a woman's life can be a higher calling to heal unfinished business & explore our innate wisdom & creativity. 00:00:00 Compassionate Conversations Introduction 00:00:24 Introducing Susan Willson 00:01:...
Send us a text In this episode, Esther Kane interviews Dr. Georgia Ede of Diagnosis Diet, a nutritional psychiatrist, about her new book, Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind. Dr. Ede explains the link between metabolism and the state of our mental health. She also discusses the exciting finding in the growing field of metabolic psychiatry that many people are able to greatly reduce or eliminate psychiatric medications when they eat a biologically appropriate diet. Episode Contents 0:00...
Send us a text Esther Kane is a psychotherapist who specializes in helping Highly Sensitive People (or HSPs) become all that they dream of being. In this short talk, she points towards the fact that as HSPs, we are highly skilled at extending compassion towards others, but often fail to extend it towards ourselves. She ends with guiding you through a short meditation, which will help you develop the beginnings of self-compassion. Blog post and self-compassion practises mentioned: https...
Send us a text Esther Kane is a psychotherapist who specializes in helping highly sensitive people (or HSPs) become all that they dream of being. In this short talk, she discusses why and how our anger can be harmful to ourselves. She explains how high sensitivity and introversion contribute to the internalization of emotions and how shoving our feelings down can cause many health problems such as depression and anxiety Book Mentioned: The Myth of Normal by Gabor Mate For resources ...
Send us a text Esther Kane is a psychotherapist who specializes in helping highly sensitive people (or HSPs) become all that they dream of being. In this short talk, she shares her reflections on why HSPs do so well in psychotherapy and are every therapist's dream to work with. FREE resources: Self-compassion resources mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWDla... https://www.estherkane.com/self-compa... https://www.estherkane.com/how-to-do-... To learn more about the Highl...
Send us a text Esther Kane is a psychotherapist who specializes in helping Highly Sensitive People (or HSPs) discusses the concept called 'being inwardly outrageous' by SARK and encourages HSPs everywhere to try it out for themselves. Where to find SARK and her fabulous books: https://www.planetsark.com To check out Esther's outrageous shoe collection and to find some fun shoes for yourself: https://www.fluevog.com FREE resources: To learn more about the Highly Sensitive Personality: http...
Send us a text Esther Kane, a psychotherapist who specializes in helping highly sensitive people (or HSPs) shares tips for how we can lessen anxiety around being physically sick. She talks about how she has made peace with having seasonal allergies through exposure therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy and gives some affirmations which lower anxiety. FREE resources: To learn more about the Highly Sensitive Personality: https://www.estherkane.com/highly-sensitive-people/ To...
Send us a text As a highly sensitive person, do you feel like the odd one out for being different than other people? What if you could learn to reframe your sensitivity as a superpower instead of being mean to yourself? Listen to this short talk to learn some easy and incredibly effective tools which will help you transform how you view yourself and empower you to step out as the amazing super-person you are. FREE resources: How to Increase Your Self-Compassion: https://www.estherkan...
Send us a text As a highly sensitive person, do you feel like the odd one out for being different than other people? What if you could learn to reframe your sensitivity as a superpower instead of being mean to yourself? Listen to this short talk to learn some easy and incredibly effective tools which will help you transform how you view yourself and empower you to step out as the amazing super-person you are. FREE resources: How to Increase Your Self-Compassion: https://www.estherkan...
Send us a text As a highly sensitive person, do you feel like you are less in charge of your life than you'd like to be? What if there was a way to learn to be the 'driver of the bus' that is your one precious life? Listen to this short talk to learn more about how to take your power back. Author of book mentioned, The Body Keeps the Score is Bessel van ver Kolk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Body_Keeps_the_Score Creator of Somatic Experiencing is Peter Levine: https://ww...
Send us a text As a highly sensitive person, do you feel like the odd one out for being different than other people? What if you could learn to reframe your sensitivity as a superpower instead of being mean to yourself? Listen to this short musing by Esther to learn some easy and incredibly effective tools which will help you transform how you view yourself and empower you to step out as the amazing super-person you are. FREE resources: How to Increase Your Self-Compassion...
Send us a text Are you a fan of Ketogenic Woman (Anita Breeze)? I sure am! Here she shares her personal story which contributed to a significant weight gain before she found the ketogenic way of eating. I was touched by her story and deeply moved by the emotional healing she has done in order to heal her relationship with food and her body. I think you will be too. Enjoy! Episode Contents 0:00 Compassionate Conversations Intro 0:24 Body Image Series Intro 2:56 Introducing Anita Breeze 8:14 ...
Send us a text Canadian Psychotherapist Esther Kane interviews Dawn Hertz, a grief and loss therapist, to provide some tools for those of you who are grieving a recent loss. Episode Contents: 0:00 Compassionate Conversations Intro 0:24 Introduction of Dawn Hertz 1:30 How Dawn has been touched personally by grief and loss 9:39 How she became interested in specializing in grief and loss as a therapist 12:52 What grief and loss looks like for most people in the short term, after a year,...
Send us a text Dr. Ifland is considered to be the world's leading expert in processed food addiction. She is the author of the textbook, Processed Food Addiction. Dr. Ifland educates health practitioners on using food addiction recovery to put diet-related diseases into remission. She was selected by the Oprah Winfrey Network as food addiction specialist, is a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition, and an innovator in food addiction recovery programs. In this episode, we discuss:&nb...
Send us a text Are you a Jewish woman who struggles with food and body image? You are not alone! One study found that the rate of eating disorders amongst Jewish women was 50 percent higher than the general U.S. population. Enjoy this fascinating discussion between two experienced Jewish female eating disorder therapists, Esther Kane and Nina Manolson, to understand the reasons behind this. Most importantly, you will learn some invaluable tools to help you recover from your distorted bo...
Send us a text Psychotherapist Esther Kane and Megan Snedden, founder of a of kindness movement called the Kind Effect, discuss how Megan found healing, meaning and purpose after suffering two losses of close family members. Episode Contents: 0:00 Compassionate Conversations Intro 0:24 Introduction of Megan Snedden 1:37 Megan's personal story of loss 10:52 How Megan coped with mental health issues after these losses 16:39 Inspiration for the kindness movement 27:10 How she trans...