If you've ever been told "you're too sensitive," you're probably immediately hearing that as a negative comment. But being a highly sensitive person is actually an innate and highly unique trait, and as HSP expert Julie Bjelland points out, it is not a disorder, but rather a trait that has helped us to evolve. People with this trait have specially developed abilities that helped them be good at finding food, mates, and a safe place for the tribe to live.

Nearly 20% of our population is considered Highly Sensitive, and in our conversation, we learn how to understand the experience of an HSP (highly sensitive person) so that we may tap into the gifts of sensitivity.

"Hurt people, hurt people." This powerful and profound phrase holds so much truth. When you are a victim of any form of trauma, and you have the healing and ability needed to step back and look at the person who caused you pain, you can often find that the hurtful behavior patterns that someone exhibits stem from pain that another person had caused them earlier in their lives.

Introverts and Extroverts and learning to understand their differences is always a fascinating topic! Do you gain energy from being around a lot of people and processing out loud? OR, do you absolutely crave complete aloneness and silence to replenish your being? Or both?!?

Today we are joined by Karla McLaren, M.Ed. Karla is an award-winning author, social science researcher, and empathy pioneer. Karla shares with us her experiences that led her to becoming an expert of emotions, and shared with us her Emotional Vocabulary List, which gives us insight to our 18 different emotions, how they show up in our lives, and what they are trying to tell us.

Today we welcome Chris and Kim Watson, two active members of Braver Angels who find themselves on different sides of the aisle, but within their marriage. One of the core functions of politics is to work towards figuring out our social contracts with each other… What are our rules as we work, play and all live together. Marriage is similar in that we’re constantly working on how we live together in our homes - so very political, just on a much smaller scale. Mary and I were both very curious to learn from Chris and Kim what they have learned from each other while being on opposite sides of politics.

We welcome back Sara Blanchard and Misasha Suzuki Graham of The Dear White Women podcast to tell us about their new book!

Sara and Misasha have become dear friends to The Third Place and they share with us why they wrote this book, and give their unique perspectives of race in America.

Money is emotional! Spenders, Savers, Planners... we each take a different approach to money. Money can define our self worth. If we're struggling financially, it can dominate our thoughts in other areas of life. Even when we have enough, it's easy to let our internal voices question "what is enough?"

Social Media has become an incredibly large part of our society in recent years, completely reshaping how we interact with one another. This week, Gabby Blitz Rosen, gives us great insight to social media, how it’s used in marketing, and helps us navigate both the good and the bad of this crazy digital world.

Guns are the leading cause of death for those who die by suicide. Yet guns are so interwoven into our culture, thinking about reducing guns is a near impossible conversation to have - and it certainly does not allow for us to actually make an impact on reducing the number of people who die by suicide.

Can you imagine a world with ZERO suicides? In our conversation with Scott Smith, he paints a hopeful picture of how we can make a real difference of lowering the number of suicides.

When we hear the word "bias," it is often heard with a negative connotation. In reality, we all have bias and it's neither good nor bad. Ryan Wynett defines bias as "the attitude or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions and decisions in an unconscious manner."

Death is a difficult conversation for all of us, but it's even more difficult when someone leaves this world too soon. The grief and soul searching of any parent who has lost a child is gut wrenching and unbearable.

In order to break the cycle of a pornography addiction, one of the most important things is to find someone who you can be vulnerable with, and who can hold you accountable.

Many addictions have similar roots: behaviors or substances that help create temporary moments of pleasure to help us avoid real-world pains and traumas.

Every Adoption and Infertility journey is unique. They each come with their own special circumstances, pains, traumas and moments of joy. Stories of adoption also include the precious life of another human being, yearning to be loved, to be known and to be a part of a family.

Adoption doesn't heal infertility. They are in fact a separate series of painful and beautiful, difficult and emotional moments that 1 in 8 couples have to work through as the plan for a family.

It's not everyday you find yourself hiding for your life when the cartel starts firing at your hotel room while on vacation.

Dr. Zee lives by her own mother’s motto that, “We are more similar than we are different. Our differences make us unique, but they do not separate us.”

Gratitude is available to us all, and creating habits that build our gratitude should be a part of our daily routines - just like brushing our teeth! This week's guest, Pamelyn Rocco share's how her life's negative experiences and the practices of gratitude helped her gain new focus and perspectives.