Jenna Avery writes:

“I connected with Douglas’s work originally through my interest in highly sensitive people and his site HighlySensitive.org.

“Eby describes creative visionaries as people who have a drive, passion, persistence, or consuming commitment to realize their creative ideas. As visionaries, they have a sense of their work being so important, meaningful, and emotionally powerful that they are willing to commit to it and persist with it.”

Read the rest of her summary, and listen to the podcast on her Living Your Purpose Blog, in the post:

Douglas Eby on the Inner Dynamics of Creative Visionaries.

Also see Jenna’s programs:

Self-Study Classes for Sensitive Souls

How to Quiet Your Inner Critic So You Can Stop Holding Back On Your Soul’s Mission

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Dr. Ted Zeff received his doctorate in psychology in 1981 from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, CA.

He teaches workshops on coping techniques for highly sensitive people and has taught stress reduction and insomnia management for over fifteen years at various hospitals and medical groups.

He has more than twenty years experience counseling sensitive people and has a private practice counseling HSPs in-person and by phone.

His site: www.drtedzeff.com

Books by Ted Zeff, PhD :

The Highly Sensitive Person’s Survival Guide: Essential Skills for Living Well in an Overstimulating World

Highly Sensitive Person’s Companion: Daily Exercises for Calming Your Senses in an Overstimulating World

Also see Video: nurturing our sensitive self: Ted Zeff, PhD on strategies

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Jenna Avery is “The Life Coach for Sensitive Souls” – helping individuals recognize and more fully express their gifts as highly sensitive people.

In our interview, she talks about some of the challenges we may face in taking care of ourselves and living our purpose, such as being overly self-critical or not setting good self-care boundaries.

She also talks about her new project of interviewing creative visionaries about how they stay on track and make more effective contributions.

Her main site, where you can sign up for her newsletter, and learn more about her Embrace Your Essential Self program and other resources:
http://highlysensitivesouls.com

Also see her Sensitive Professionals Network site http://www.sensitiveprofessionals.com

Jenna mentions an HSP Conference with Jacquelyn Strickland – listen to our podcast interview

Also see the Highly Sensitive site http://highlysensitive.org/

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Dee Wallace has achieved over 100 credits as an actor in film, television and the stage, in a career of more than 30 years so far. She is also an acting teacher, public speaker, workshop leader, spiritual healer, and author of Conscious Creation: Directing Energy to Get the Life You Want, a book on self-healing and personal growth.

See links to her books and sites below.

Here is a short Q&A email interview with brief answers by Dee Wallace – which she answers in more depth in the podcast.

1)  On your blog, you say “You can’t JUDGE the ‘business’ or the ‘jerks who won’t let you audition’ and expect to successfully get in a room to do that very thing!

Do you think many actors have that kind of “battleground” attitude?  What are some other examples you have noticed in your students – or even experienced actors?

> Dee Wallace. Yes, I do.  It’s a defense mechanism.  If we can make them wrong, we don’t need to address the things in us that need to be healed, ie, beliefs of low self worth, powerlessness, beliefs that the worls “owes us.”

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