Highly Sensitive People and MS with Psychotherapeutic Counsellor Rachel Burn | S6E13

Welcome to Living Well with MS, where we are pleased to welcome Rachel Burn as our guest! Rachel is a Psychotherapeutic Counsellor and follows the Overcoming MS Program. In this episode, Rachel talks to Geoff about who should work with a therapist, how to choose a therapist, how to unpack our emotions and how to know if you’re a highly sensitive person.

Watch this episode on YouTube here. Keep reading for the key episode takeaways.

Topics and Timestamps:

01:46 Rachel’s background and her MS and Overcoming MS journey.

08:14 Who should work with a therapist?

09:49 How you should choose a therapist and style of therapy.

12:27 How to unpack your emotions scientifically as waves of chemicals.

16:06 Unhelpful tactics of clinging to emotions or suppressing them.

19:29 The connection with highly sensitive people (HSPs) and autoimmunity.

21:43 How to know if you’re highly sensitive.

26:05 The power of the Overcoming MS community for the newly diagnosed.

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More info and links:

• Connect with Rachel on the Live Well Hub
• Follow Rachel on TikTok @born_a_bodymind
• Listen to Craig Hassed’s episode on meditation tips

Find out more about the books that Rachel mentions:

• Gabor Mate’s book When the Body Says No
• Elaine Aron’s book The Highly Sensitive Person
• Bessel van Der Kolk’s book The Body Keeps The Score
• Susan Gehrig’s book Why Love Matters
• Lisa Feldman Barrett’s book: How Emotions Are Made

• 'Key to Successful Therapy'
• Read about the 90-second life of an emotion
• New to Overcoming MS? Visit our introductory page
• Connect with others following Overcoming MS on the Live Well Hub
• Visit the Overcoming MS website

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