Alane Freund
Discover new insights and a vast set of tools that will allow you to access, cultivate, and implement your growth and resilience as a highly sensitive person so you can live to your fullest potential.
Do you have a keen imagination, rich inner life, and vivid dreams? Is time alone each day as essential as air?
Perhaps others have called you “too shy” or “overly sensitive”?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you might be a highly sensitive person (HSP). In fact, 20% of the population is.
Being highly sensitive is a valuable trait. The world has simply not caught up with that fact though...
... yet!
Many great artists, innovators, and thinkers are HSPs. They are generally highly conscientious and intuitive.
And as you likely already know, there are also challenges to this trait. An HSP is easily overstimulated and more likely to be affected by (and struggle with) a troubled past and present stressors.
Alane Freund, LMFT, an international consultant and leader in the field of high sensitivity, writes, teaches, speaks, and consults extensively on this topic.
She’s created and taught workshops for the last decade alongside Dr. Elaine Aron, the esteemed psychologist and leading scientist who coined the phrase “Highly Sensitive Person.”
— Dr. Elaine Aron, Groundbreaking Author of The Highly Sensitive Person: “Alane Is the Most Experienced Person Out There Working With Highly Sensitive People”
Are you willing to explore:
- Who you are when you are your very best self?
- Your true capacity for living your ideal life?
- How your ideal day would unfold?
With a deep well of teaching experience and knowledge on HSPs (she is one herself!), Alane is delighted to share new insights, research, and skills to support HSPs in redesigning their lives.
HSPs live in a world that doesn’t value their sensitivity...
... which is especially the case for men, who deeply need connection — but simply may not know how to create it.
For HSPs, the frequent sense of overwhelm can be debilitating — many will spend their entire lives seeking ways to manage their anxiety.
You’ll find the answers you’ve been looking for, Alane says, through making changes within yourself.
During this intensive 7-module course, you’ll learn skills to help you redesign your life — so that your sensitivity works FOR you, not against you.
As you’ve likely already experienced, it’s impossible to make changes when you’re in a state of overarousal. You’ll explore ways to prevent these situations by learning how to recognize the environments and triggers that cause you to not function well.
As a highly sensitive person, you were born to be a leader and a spiritual guide. Yet, if you’re struggling with shame and feel badly about yourself — and your sensitivity — you’ll run into difficulties fulfilling your purpose.
As an HSP, you need to come into your power so that you can live your life to the fullest — and in doing so, change your world and the world around you.
Your strong empathy is a virtue, but therein lies the issue. If you don’t apply the same empathy toward yourself that you apply toward others, you’ll find yourself in codependent relationships — and feel flooded by these intense emotions.
Does this sound like you?
A common misconception is that empaths and HSPs are one and the same. Empaths and HSPs have commonalities but they have two different identities and ways of interacting with the world.
As HSPs, we need to learn how to be kinder to ourselves. We’ve mastered being kind to others — we’re typically overly focused on others — and we need to bring the focus back to ourselves.
In fact, research shows that depression and anxiety tend to coexist with the HSP trait when paired with a history of stress in childhood — something most HSPs experience.
You can learn how to stop that spiral.
When you discover how to create and respect appropriate boundaries, you’ll explore what it feels like to “put your own oxygen mask on first.”
Know that you are not alone — and that it’s vital to be surrounded by a community in which you feel safe and can connect with other HSPs.
You’ll be given a variety of gratitude, mindfulness, and intimacy practices. You’ll be introduced to guided meditation and journaling prompts that will help you author your life story. You’ll have opportunities to share with others who understand what it’s like to be you.
You’ll explore breathing exercises specifically designed for preventing overarousal, and resilience-building exercises to settle your nervous system during overwhelm. You’ll be presented with scientific research and learn how each piece of new information applies to your life.
You’ll write a letter to your ancestors and excavate the family trauma that’s been passed down through generations and created the trauma that’s a part of you today. You’ll also learn how to recognize and resolve this trauma so you can move forward in your life — with resilience.
During this experiential course, you’ll:
- Learn to use your high sensitivity as an asset in redesigning your best life
- Deepen your understanding of who you most naturally are
- Create new habits and reset your life by developing a deep toolbox
- Reframe and heal from adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)
- Discover coping mechanisms for dealing with overwhelm
- Expand your clinical competencies and support strategies if you’re a clinician working with HSPs
Some individuals are disproportionately more susceptible to both negative and positive environmental conditions. This is called differential susceptibility, and it explains why people react differently in seemingly similar situations.
Using 12-step program tenets — awareness, acceptance, and action — Alane will help you become aware of and take action on issues that impact you around differential susceptibility.
The world of traditional psychotherapy is actually misdiagnosing many people as ADHD or ADD who are in fact HSPs. Ironically, highly sensitive people are being prescribed medications such as Ritalin that are actually creating MORE anxiety in our sensitive brains.
As you learn to recognize your personal trigger situations, the transformation will unfold. Diving into what sends you above or below your optimal thresholds, you’ll learn the tools to return to equilibrium.
You’ll literally (re)train your brain so that you can design your best life as a highly sensitive person.
Isn’t it time you reframe being sensitive as the advantage it truly is?
You are a highly sensitive person.
And yes, that is a gift.
The Beauty of On-Demand Video
In this 7-module transformational intensive, Alane will guide you to cultivate skills for growth and resilience so you can live your optimal life and fulfill your purpose.
You’ll connect with Alane and experience her teachings through on-demand video. The beauty of on-demand is that you get to take the course at your own pace. Rewind and replay any section as many times as you wish. Immerse yourself into each of the modules. Let the information, practices, and wisdom really soak in. Your purchase includes 24/7 ongoing access to your course content, allowing you time to review the materials at your own pace and integration.
Module 1 Understand the Science
Twenty percent of us are highly sensitive people (HSP). It’s a valuable and innate trait: Many great artists and thinkers are HSPs, and we’re generally highly conscientious and intuitive. But there are also challenges. HSPs are easily overstimulated and more affected by a troubled past and by present stressors.
The path to thriving and redesigning our best lives begins with developing a level of expertise in understanding exactly what the trait is, what it means, and the ways the brains of HSPs are different. Sensory Processing Sensitivity is the scientific name for this trait, which has been documented in at least 100 species and is hypothesized to exist in all species, even fruit flies.
We’ll explore the how and why of the 80-20 rule of genetics. At the end of this module, you’ll be developing the expertise required to explain the trait and the science to your community.
In this session, you’ll:
- Learn a brief gratitude practice focused on living a great life as a highly sensitive person
- Become an expert on the trait of high sensitivity
- Question and challenge the scientific research so that you’re comfortable defending it and speaking about it to others.
- Use and understand the Are You Highly Sensitive self-assessment with special considerations for extroverts and male-identified HSPs
- Begin telling the new story of your life as an HSP — the plot, characters, and outcomes are up to you
- Explore several practices to settle the nervous system and reduce empathy overwhelm
- Share the beginnings of your story with another HSP and discover that you’re not alone
- Become acquainted with the Hallelujah Breath, a simple physical exercise practice for preventing anxiety and overstimulation with a video link you can use daily between sessions
Module 2 Leveraging Deep Resilience to Address Anxiety as a Highly Sensitive Person
Some people say that highly sensitive people aren’t resilient, and while it’s true that we’re more impacted by our surroundings — which can create anxiety and make us appear less resilient — our ability to access deep resilience is actually greater than the 80% who don’t have this trait. The trick is knowing how to access and implement our growth and resilience potential.
Resilience comes from the understanding and conscious implementation of what’s called differential susceptibility. Functional MRI studies have shown just how profoundly the brains of HSPs are unique and reactive. Thanks to this reactivity, HSPs have stronger reactions to stress, especially in childhood — they are in fact “differently susceptible.”
The good news and the bad news are the same: HSPs are most susceptible to positive influences thanks to their strong empathy. Many empaths are also highly sensitive, but in this case we’re talking about the empathy of all HSPs — those strong responses you have when presented with emotional content in others, especially loved ones.
In this module, you’ll:
- Come to understand anxiety’s special role in the life of HSPs
- Learn a 60-second HSP-friendly mindful living technique called Mindful Doors
- Hear why meditation doesn’t work for HSPs, at least not the way most people meditate
- Explore a meditation technique designed for the sensitive, reactive, empathic brains of HSPs
- Experience a Hard Style Plank Physical exercise practice for preventing anxiety and overstimulation with a video link to use daily between sessions (2-5 minute practice)
Module 3 The Key to a Life Redesign: Reframing Childhood & the Family Lineage
Do you find yourself becoming overwhelmed and overaroused when the people around you seem just fine? Mostly, you are just noticing so much more and processing all that input, a justifiable reason to become overwhelmed.
Now imagine yourself at age three, five, or seven (or any time in childhood). What must it have been like to be a small, powerless child soaking in everything — everything people say and do and feel, everything each of your senses perceives, and everything happening around and within you? If you would say overwhelming, you would be right. You were often flooded and maybe you felt like some people around you were vampires, sucking the life force out of you.
And what about your parents? Did they sign up for raising a child who saw and felt everything so deeply? Chances are high they didn’t quite value your sensitivity. Maybe you were one of the generation told to toughen up. Maybe you were diagnosed with ADHD? Perhaps you were prescribed stimulants that made it all worse.
It’s time to reframe and heal that child’s life and perspective so they can rest peacefully and allow you to flourish in your life today. This isn’t your typical inner child work. This is about the sensitive experience and temperament.
In this module, you’ll:
- Explore the role of high sensitivity in neurodiversity and giftedness
- Discuss how neuroplasticity shapes and reshapes the brain of the highly sensitive child you once were
- Learn a 60-second HSP-friendly mindful living technique, Green Leaves
- Explore the meditation technique, Listen Like a Horse
- Receive the HSPush-up physical exercise practice to prevent anxiety and overstimulation with a video link to use daily between sessions
Module 4 From Striving to Thriving: Trails of Trauma & Summits of Success
While therapy is an important tool in healing past trauma, in this course, we’ll reframe these experiences through the lens of the trait. Suddenly, we’ll know that we are neither crazy nor alone. Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) often lead highly sensitive people into medical or mental illnesses, and in this session, we’ll explore the role of health and illness in the life of a successful HSP.
Thriving as a highly sensitive person is all about leaning into the past challenges and embracing them with inner compassion. As we explore the journey and role of challenge in the life of an HSP, we discover that success is about prior and proper preparation.
Highly sensitive people are likely to explore many different priorities and careers, some wonderful and some awful, but none of them may be a long-term fit. Sometimes the career or path we love is too overstimulating or exhausting. With deep processing, we may be slower to change our minds or struggle with finding that success we envision.
In this module, you’ll:
- Explore the role of mental illness in the life of HSPs
- Have the opportunity to ask questions about medication and differential diagnosis during Q&A
- Discover paradoxical interventions to turn the strive into a thrive
- Learn a new 60-second HSP-friendly mindful living technique, Car Keys
- Learn a new meditation technique designed for the sensitive, reactive, empathic brains of HSPs, Talk to the Hand
- Discover a simple physical exercise practice, Get Up, for preventing anxiety and overstimulation, with a video link to use daily between sessions
Module 5 Train the Brain & Live the Life Redesign
Highly sensitive people were born to be the advisors, philosophers, healers, creatives, thinkers, and shamans. Where is your shaman’s hut? We’ll explore exactly what that means in your own life.
An HSP can live in the middle of Manhattan or off the grid in the Rocky Mountains as long as they design a life that honors their gifts. Most modern, Western cultures no longer honor the shamans in their midst. Whether you surround yourself with helpers or dial back your life to the point that you don’t need them, honoring your reactive and finely tuned nervous system is not optional.
Tools for thriving and training that brain of yours are front and center this week.
In this module, you’ll:
- Learn about the rhythm and routine life plan
- Explore the “Window of Opportunity” and how to prevent the spinning brain
- Discover certain non-negotiables for HSPs
- Experience a 1-minute HSP-friendly mindful living technique, Drink Up
- Learn a meditation designed for the sensitive, reactive, empathic brains of HSPs, Prayer Beads
- Explore Table It, a s imple physical exercise practice for preventing anxiety and overstimulation, with a video link to use daily between sessions
Module 6 Be The Author of Your Own Life: Marriage, Money, and Mystery
I do enough, I have enough, I know enough... I AM ENOUGH. Yes, you are. What does it take to believe it? You are enough as the author of your own story. As you write and design that story, you step into your personal power, becoming the shaman of your own life. Some might even call your sensitivity your superpower.
The beauty of empathic and sensitive people is that we’re unlikely to abuse that power, but at times we might be hesitant to take it. Wielding personal power in relationships means you’re the one who draws the line. You find yourself tapping into unlimited resources and attracting personal and professional relationships that sustain and nourish you.
We explore empowerment practices including abundance, spirituality, and self-awareness as totems to sustain us and our lives. It’s time to break through the denial and create new habits.
In this module, you’ll:
- Explore Alane’s program Speaking Volumes, to improve communication in relationships
- Learn that spiritual health is the key to your mental health
- Discover how to resource, take sabbaticals, and balance social engagement with solitude for your wellbeing
- Discover a 60-second HSP-friendly mindful living technique, Knock Knock
- Learn Analytics, a meditation designed for the sensitive, reactive, empathic brains of HSPs
- Explore a simple physical exercise practice for preventing anxiety and overstimulation, Nitric Oxide Dump, with a video link to use daily between sessions
Module 7 Time to Integrate: Taking Your Empowerment on The Road To Your New Life
After this intense and intimate journey together, we’ve created a strong sense of empowerment as individuals and as a community.
Through this journey of building community, accountability, and skills, you may feel better and stronger about your high sensitivity and life in general. Now it’s time to take it on the road and venture into the environments that have challenged you in the past.
With your deep, full toolbox you’ll explore emotional leadership as the gifted and empathic sensitive being your genetics designed you to be. We’ll strategize and plan for the beautiful life you have redesigned.
In this module, you’ll:
- Learn what it means to be an invisible minority and come out of the closet, while addressing the stigma attached to being an HSP
- Explore how emotional leadership is a blessing (and your birthright)
- Gather talking points, speaker’s bureau, and mentoring — HSP Leadership
- Discuss Avocation and Vocation
- Learn a 60-second HSP-friendly mindful living technique, Left Bank
In each week’s modules, you’ll:
- Receive journaling prompts to become the author of your story
- Be introduced to an intimacy practice for developing personal leadership and preventing empathy overload
- Learn a new breathwork technique specifically designed for preventing overarousal and returning to an optimal level
SPECIAL BONUS OFFER
In addition to Alane’s transformative 7-module course, you’ll receive this special bonus offering to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
HSPs & Love
Video Teaching From Alane Freund
What are the challenges with love for HSPs? This is a recording of a live workshop recorded on Valentine’s day 2022. When highly sensitive people experience "E" — emotional responsiveness and empathy — we’re so good at love. But there is also the chance that our relationships are overstimulating from both the love and the friction. This leads us to needing alone time — a challenge every HSP in love has to manage, even the extroverts. The challenging side of empathy is that we’re often not as good at loving ourselves as we are at loving others. Learn more about how, when we focus on others and our environment, we end up putting ourselves last.
Examining Our Priorities & Finding Purpose
Video Dialogue With Alane Freund and Elaine Aron
Alane Freund and Elaine Aron discuss “(Re)Examining our Priorities and Finding Purpose”. We live in a world filled with stressors, and as highly sensitive people, we’re more bothered by worries than others. Uncertainty can be overstimulating. Identifying priorities helps each of us find our individual path and purpose, giving us the will or direction to grow. A pioneer in the studies of the innate temperament trait of high sensitivity, Dr. Aron, along with her husband, Dr. Arthur Aron, are two of the leading scientists studying the psychology of love, close relationships, and sensitivity.
Understanding Anxiety in Times of Stress
Video Teaching From Alane Freund and Daniel Martin
Alane Freund, LMFT, and Daniel Martin, LAc and herbalist, discuss the slippery slope between stress and anxiety through the dual lenses of mental health and traditional Asian medicine. This workshop offers different perspectives on recognizing symptoms and defining anxiety plus simple techniques to prevent and alleviate stress. For the past decade, Dr. Martin has specialized in treating anxiety, chronic digestive disorders, migraines, and chronic pain. He practices a gentle Japanese style of acupuncture that engages patients in the power of their own healing process.
Is Your Family a Dream Team?
Video Teaching From Alane Freund
Our families are the most important team in our lives. We deserve to pay attention and adapt our family team to perform at its very best. Family relationships can be stressful, but they don't have to be when we mindfully build our team and create strategies to thrive.
Writing Our Self-Care Journey
Video Dialogue With Alane Freund and Shay Youngblood
Learn the power of the pen, especially for highly sensitive people. Alane and Shay Youngblood, a writer, visual artist, and educator, touch on writing for ourselves and writing for an audience. The author of several novels, short stories, and essays, Youngblood was appointed as a Commissioner to the Japan U.S. Friendship Commission and serves on the board of Yaddo artist residency.
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Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven Pre-Recorded 90-Minute Modules
Experience a unique opportunity to learn from therapist Alane Freund, an international consultant on high sensitivity — from the comfort of your own home. Each session includes a streaming video and guides you to discover specific skills and abilities to help you align your life as an HSP in an optimal way.
Seven Transcripts of Sessions
In addition to the high-quality videos and MP3 audios, you’ll also receive session transcriptions. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each lesson.
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About Alane Freund, LMFT
Alane Freund is a consultant, speaker, and therapist for highly sensitive people, and has worked in mental health for three decades. An International Consultant on High Sensitivity (ICHS), Alane has developed and implemented programs for highly sensitive people, youth, and the clinicians who serve them. She holds master’s degrees in both clinical psychology and school counseling.
Alane’s widely acclaimed Talk at Google, Understanding the Highly Sensitive Person, and her YouTube channel have amassed over 1 million views, making her a major resource for HSPs worldwide. She hosts the Are You Highly Sensitive community where she teaches live masterclasses, offers Q&A sessions, hosts her program, ASK ALANE, and leads small group online Sensitivity Circles for Sensitive Women, Parents, Sensitive and anxious Youth, HSProfessionals, HSQs, and Wise Women & Wonder for HSW elders.
Alane offers team building, educational workshops, and retreats online and across the globe, including her trademarked program, HSPs & Horses(TM) which she developed with Dr. Elaine Aron, the author and researcher who discovered the trait of high sensitivity.