Episode 4: Empaths, Sensitivity and Neurodiversity

In part 2 of our special on Empaths (listen here if you missed part 1), we dig a little deeper in trying to understand why so many people - especially women - choose to identify with a spiritual label that often times doesn't help in reconciling one's heightened sensitivity with other interrelated conditions. We also discuss possible links with neurodiversity and wonder if what Empaths or HSPs experience couldn't instead be traced to a neurodivergent condition.

Namely, we discuss the following:

• Could psychology's historic biases towards women and femmes be to blame for women having so few options in understanding their sensitivity?
• Could neurodiversity also include people who experience extra-sensory perception?
• We expose ethically questionable and harmful practices some spiritual teachers and leaders continue to engage in.

On the next episode of Screwed Up: Spiritual bullying. Stay tuned, and thanks for listening and supporting the podcast! 

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References cited in this episode: 

Crawford, M., & Marecek, J. (1989). Feminist theory, feminist psychology: A bibliography of epistemology, critical analysis, and applications. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 13(4), 477–491. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-6402.1989.tb01015.x

Neurodiversity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurodiversity

Dr. Elaine Aron, HSP, and neurodiversity: 
https://hsperson.com/about-high-sensitivity-autism-and-neurodiversity/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5832686/
https://medium.com/@KristenHovet/opinion-highly-sensitive-person-hsp-and-high-functioning-autism-are-the-same-in-some-cases-842821a4eb73