This episode is for all of you who FEEL deeply, identify as empaths and highly sensitive people! Our guest Lola Pickett works primarily with empaths/HSPs in reclaiming their resilience and power through their sensitivities. We dive into what is a highly sensitive person and empath, and the difference between the two. Lola shares the most common patterns that show up for empaths/HSPs that hold them back from stepping into their full power - so many have shown up in my own life. We talk about how this pandemic can be a portal for those folks to step into their powers of sensitivity and why we need to “upgrade the program” and tap into our resiliency during this time.
Lola shares her own personal journey with this pandemic and the tool that she used to help herself work through overwhelming anxiety - partnering with her brain. We touch on the medicine Lola sees we are receiving through this process, Lola’s thoughts on navigating fear and how we can move with fear in a way that best serves us, plus helpful questions to ask yourself. Of course we share some practical ways we can support ourselves as highly sensitive during this pandemic, and how we can continue to do so as we move into the unknown.
Quotes
“The less boxes I put around, and labels I put on, things... the freer I am.” ~ Lola Pickett
“When the *F* are we going to wake up and hear the medicine songs that are trying to sing us awake from inside our own bodies?” ~ Lola Pickett
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
What is a highly sensitive person and empath, and the difference between the two
The most common patterns that show up for empaths/HSPs that hold them back from stepping into their full power
How people-pleasing, procrastination, and overwhelm can be side effects of being an empath
How we are waking up to the wounding of the witch and reconciling with the history of denigration, dismissal and genocide
Why we need to “upgrade the program” and tap into our resiliency
How this pandemic can be a portal for those to step into their powers of sensitivity
How Lola discovered her own powers of sensitivity and what it was that led her own evolution into supporting others
How Lola experienced an existential crisis having built a life that looked great on the outside but was “built by the wrong ingredients” and led her to realizing she was living a lie
How Lola took back her power in her life and made radical changes
How we need to work with our sensitivities intentionally so we can without burning out and giving ourselves away
Tower moments: how the tarot Tower card and archetype is showing up in these times, and what to do about it
How what we are experiencing at different levels with this pandemic is a collective trauma, and how it’s critical to get quiet and connect
Lola’s personal journey with this pandemic, navigating illness (not with COVID) but then having family members get sick with COVID
The tool that Lola used to help herself work through overwhelming anxiety - partnering with her brain and talking back to her thoughts
How mental resilience does not equal mental “toughness”
How the nonlinear process of this virus in the body mirrors our collective nonlinear experience of the pandemic
The question Lola wants us to ask ourselves: “If the quarantine ended tomorrow what would you regret?”
The medicine Lola sees we are receiving thru this process: slowing down, decolonizing, deconstructing our internalized capitalism, and returning to a sense of how can I be a wild humxn on this planet
Lola’s thoughts on navigating fear and how we can move with fear in a way that best serves us, and helpful questions to ask yourself
Some practical ways we can support ourselves during this pandemic, including remembering fun (Lola says “it’s imperative to find our fun”), speaking our Truth and being honest in each moment, and listen to the medicine of slowing down
How we are seeing the lack of resilience in the current societal systems that are in place, and how building resilience starts at home
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Connect With Lola Pickett
Website | Instagram | Facebook | Youtube
Lola’s podcast Empath to Power
Resources
Webtalks and classes by Max Dashu including Prophetic Women
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