SENSI: Empowerment for Pussies is a bold, soulful, and unapologetic podcast by and about sensitive folk who are done living like their sensitivity is an oopsies. Through raw reflections, spiritual insight, and the occasional F-bomb, your host Shae turns the old idea of “weakness” on its head, offering a grounded path to empowerment.Unafraid of the darker sides of sensitivity, Shae shares candidly and compassionately while steering clear of sugar-coating. She encourages you to take agency over your sensitivity, not merely to accept it (or make an exception for it). Come along on the journey as she reads things and deep...
Latest episodes
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SENSITIVITY and CONSCIENCE
What does it mean to live with a clear conscience in a world that feels increasingly disoriented? In this episode, we dive deep into sensitivity through the concepts of conscience…
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55 min
SENSITIVITY and CONSCIOUSNESS (tw)
Let us look at consciousness not as something we decide with—but something we see from.In this episode, we draw a crucial distinction between consciousness and conscience—between a…
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42 min
SENSITIVITY and IMAGINATION
Sensitivity & Imagination explores imagination as the fertile ground where identity, meaning, and transformation begin.In this episode, we examine sensitivity as a domain of percep…
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49 min
SENSITIVITY as VULNERABILITY
Welcome back to SENSI - a week late, and not as intended. This re-exploration of vulnerability and its relationship to sensitivity kept slipping through my grasp and took an uninte…
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60 min
SENSITIVITY and ENERGY (Part 2)
Welcome back to the second and final part of SENSITIVITY and ENERGY. This episode we go deeper into what we established in part one - energy and form - by discussing meaning. "Mean…
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54 min
SENSITIVITY and ENERGY (Part 1)
Welcome to the first full episode of season two! We are starting at the beginning.To unwind the convoluted stories, relationships, and identity we have (been stuck with), we are ta…
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39 min
SENSITIVITY and RAPTURE
Welcome back! This intro episode picks up where we left off last season, with rupture, and pairs it with its counterpart, rapture.In this episode we recap last seasons journey and…
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1 h 03
SENSITIVITY and RUPTURE
The finale of season one is upon us and in it we discuss rupture: Energy, generated. Energy that wants to go somewhere. Energy that HAS to go somewhere.Our emotions are energy and…
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38 min
SENSITIVITY vs. OVERSENSITIVITY
(TW) Now that the concept of sensitivity has been explored in its own right, let's visit oversensitivity and see what is left.Trigger warning because self-harm and death are mentio…
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38 min
SENSITIVITY and A SENSE OF SELF
In the previous episode, we begin to play with the idea of our self-image and sense of self, what undermines it and how we can build it into a space where the stereotype is a non-i…
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32 min
SENSITIVITY and GLORIFICATION
I open the episode referring to the third episode about’ erecting a monument to our feelings’… this episode does not exist. It was removed because I raaaambled the most ramble I’ve…
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50 min
SENSITIVITY and HOLDING GRUDGES
As mentioned in the self-pity episode, we sensites hold tight to our hurts because we want to give them the consideration we feel they lack from others. This can cause further dama…
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46 min
SENSITIVITY and MANIPULATION
The use of manipulation has been mentioned before in the crying episode but in this episode we focus on the five W’s of manipulation itself (the who, what, where, when, and why) an…
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52 min
SENSITIVITY as INSTABILITY
(TW) Sensitive people are not by nature destructive people. When it becomes destructive it is necessary to ask what caused that destruction. And, how can resources serve us better?…
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55 min
SENSITIVITY as INDISCRETION
Episode thirteen, although related to episode twelve, is not about “being offended”. It is about being the offense: rubbing people the wrong way, making others uncomfortable, and f…
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57 min
SENSITIVITY and INDISCRETION
Episode twelve focuses on the sensite’s response to (perceived) indiscretions. This episode was originally titled “SENSITIVITY and A SENSE OF HUMOUR” or “SENSITIVITY as BEING OFFEN…
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38 min
SENSITIVITY vs. PRACTICALITY
This episode goes off on the definitions of a word and applying those definitions to different aspects of sensitivity to help challenge the unconscious beliefs we hold regarding th…
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45 min
SENSITIVITY as WEAKNESS
Welcome to the halfway point of the season. How is it holding up so far? Lemme know.In this episode, I focus on how the ‘weakness’ of a sensite’s character creates environments of…
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50 min
SENSITIVITY as CRYING
Can you think of any more supreme example of the stereotype? Yes, crying can be a resource and has legitimate benefits for us but it can be a cop out. I talk about why it is a go-t…
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49 min
SENSITIVITY and SELF-PITY
Again, pretty self-explanatory. A preoccupation with self. Egotistical. A non-resourceful state. But as the point always is here, we discuss the how and why. We bring to light how,…