William Allen - High sensitivity. A gift or a challenge?

William or Bill Allen took early retirement from his IT managerial role at a large financial institution and decided to do something completely different and started his own company specialising in hypnosis, coaching and nuerofeedback brain training. He really enjoyed the one-to-one part of the job and through it met a lot of Highly Sensitive People. From this he started a blog, The Sensitive Man, where he explored the personality characteristic of high sensitivity, particularly in men. Bill feels there are a lot of men, including himself, who struggle with the sensitive trait they have. He wrote the blog for a couple of years and then used it, along with his own personal experiences, as the basis for his book Confessions of a Sensitive Man, An Unconventional Defense of Sensitive Men. In this podcast:

• Bill explains why men need to recognise that sensitivity is a human trait

• The specific characteristics that make up high sensitivity

• Why men don’t allow themselves to be seen as sensitive.

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