53: Over-adaptation

The Highly-Sensitive Leader Podcast

Join me this week as I explore over-adaptation and how this concept applies to highly sensitive leaders and professionals.

I discuss the theory and frameworks I use to make this concept simple and easy for you to understand. I show you how highly sensitive people are naturally likely to over-adapt without being aware of it and how detrimental this can be to your wellbeing and performance.

I teach you the various ways we highly sensitives over-adapt in personal and professional settings, and how this can be thrilling for us at first. I show you how you are using your natural gifts in excess and how you can rein them in to preserve your physical, mental and emotional wellbeing.

I also bring to the surface some of the deep-rooted fears, like our fear of conflict, which lead us to over-adapt even when this is not the best thing for us to do.

Finally, I show you how over-adaptation can easily switch to under-adaptation and how to bring this to your awareness.

I provide a step-by-step strategy for you to reflect on your experience of over-adaptation and start reacting to people and situations in a way which is more centered on you and your needs.

Find my cheat sheet “What high sensitivity is and how it manifests” at www.highly-sensitive-leaders.com to find out exactly how your high sensitivity manifests in the workplace and in your leadership role.