Sustaining Your Creative Practice (with Steve Lawson)
Is the audience more than a gaggle of consumers? What role do they play in the creative process of an artist? Should they, as Rick…
Category: Podcast
The Gentle Rebel Podcast with Andy Mort explores the intersection of high sensitivity, creativity, and contemporary culture.
Through conversations, creative prompts, and reflections, we examine how highly sensitive people (HSPs) navigate and reshape the world within, around, and between us in sustainable ways.
I invite you to poke and prod the assumptions, pressures, and expectations we’ve accepted—to rewrite the stories of who we are, and to explore what’s possible when we embrace high sensitivity as both a personal trait and an essential thread in our collective survival (and potential).
Awareness and Alertness: How the Soundtrack of Our Nervous System Shapes Our Reality
In the main episode this week, we explored the links between hypervigilance and high sensitivity. In this supplementary private podcast, we are digging deeper into…
Hypervigilance and High Sensitivity (The HSP Owner’s Guide)
In this week’s episode of The Gentle Rebel Podcast, we look at the relationship between sensory processing sensitivity and hypervigilance. As we finish our journey…
As a Man Thinketh (A History of Self-Help)
I had not heard of James Allen before I started exploring this history of self-help. I saw references to his book, “As a Man Thinketh”,…
Overstimulation and High Sensitivity (The HSP Owner’s Guide)
This post elaborates on the ‘overstimulation’ section of The HSP Owner’s Guide. In this week’s episode of The Gentle Rebel Podcast, we look at the…
Why Common Self-Help Concepts Might Not Work For Highly Sensitive People
In this week’s Gentle Rebel Podcast, I introduced a new project where I’ll be exploring the history of self-help. Where it came from, the patterns…
Toxic Positivity is a Permanent State of Temporary Discomfort
The internet is full of memes about positive thinking. I saw this quote a few days ago:“The only difference between a good day and a…
Moral Sensitivity (The HSP Owner’s Guide)
This post elaborates on the ‘moral sensitivity’ section of The HSP Owner’s Guide. Have you ever felt like you’re carrying the weight of the world’s…
Everything wants us hooked
Some tools are built to help us grow; to learn, connect, or reach meaningful goals. But eventually, we might ask: are these tools still working…
Icebreakers and Social Sensitivity
“Let’s go around the room and introduce ourselves with your name and something interesting about you”. Does that icebreaker moment fill you with joy? If…