Episode 1: You’re Not Too Sensitive: What Sensory Processing Sensitivity Means for Modern Women

Are you really too sensitive, or is your nervous system processing more than you realise?

In this first episode of Sensitive and the City, Heidi Jane explores Sensory Processing Sensitivity and what it means to be a highly sensitive woman in the modern world. If you feel deeply, notice subtle shifts in mood, get drained by busy places, need silence after socialising, or feel overwhelmed by noise, people, screens and emotional tension, this episode will help you understand what may actually be happening in your nervous system.

Sensory Processing Sensitivity is not weakness, drama or fragility. It means your system may be taking in and processing more sensory, emotional and environmental information than you realise.

In this episode, Heidi explores:

What Sensory Processing Sensitivity actually means

Why modern life can feel so loud for sensitive women

How emotional and sensory overload build up in the body

Why sensitive women often override their own needs

The difference between sensitivity and nervous system overload

A simple sensory check-in practice to help you come back to yourself

This is not about becoming less sensitive. It is about learning how to support the way you are built, so your sensitivity becomes clearer, calmer and more useful in real life.

Sensitive and the City is a grounded podcast series for highly sensitive women, empaths and intuitive people who want practical tools for navigating modern life without becoming overwhelmed by everyone and everything around them.

Regulate first. Intuition follows.