#307: How to Protect Your HSP Capacity with Home Management

How can you manage your home without draining the limited capacity you have as an Highly Sensitive Person?

In Part 2 of my conversation with Kathi Lipp, we discuss practical ways HSPs can reduce home-management overwhelm, including:

• making pre-decisions before guilt and emotion take over,
• choosing what to keep when possessions carry emotional weight,
• containing lists, notes, papers, and visible reminders,
• creating one reliable “source of truth,” and
• asking for calmer shared spaces without feeling controlling.

We also explore what may really be happening when an HSP is labeled “controlling” for needing more calm at home—and how to communicate our sensory needs with clarity and compassion.

This episode will help you approach home management with greater self-awareness, more realistic expectations, and less shame about what your uniquely-wired nervous system needs.

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Cheri Gregory

Through scripture and story-telling, Cheri Gregory delights in helping women draw closer to Jesus, the Strength of every tender heart.

Cheri is the co-facilitator of Sensitive & Strong: the place for the HSP Christian woman to find connection. And she’s the founder of Write Beside You coaching for HSP Christian writers, coaches, and speakers.

Cheri speaks locally and internationally for women’s events and educational conferences. She’s also the coauthor of five books: You Don’t Have to Try So Hard, Overwhelmed, and An Abundant Place (with Kathi Lipp); Sensitive & Strong (with Denise J. Hughes); and Exhale (with Amy Carrol).

Cheri and her college sweetheart, Daniel, have been married for over three decades; they’ve spent the last 19 years living and serving on the campus of Monterey Bay Academy on the central California coast. 

You can connect with Cheri thru her website, on Facebook, and via Instagram.

Brandice Lardner

Kathi Lipp loves to walk with women who are decluttering every part of their lives from their homes to their unhelpful beliefs.

Kathi Lipp is the Publisher’s Weekly bestselling author of 20 books, including Sabbath Soup, The Accidental Homesteader, Overwhelmed, and Clutter Free.

Kathi is the host of Clutter Free Academy Podcast, Clutter Free Facebook Group and Clutter Free for Life community.

Kathi lives on her Red House mini-homestead with her husband Roger and 9-pound dog Moose, and regularly hosts their blended family of six, writers retreats and loads of people they love.

Connect with Kathi via her website and on Facebook.

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