Conversations with Brooke Nielsen Yang
I love the places a conversation can go when there's room for curiosity, depth, and a little wandering.
Listen to conversations on high sensitivity, intuition, trauma, neurodivergence, self-trust, and the complicated work of becoming more fully yourself.
If you’ve ever felt ashamed of your sensitivity or learned to hide parts of yourself to fit in, this conversation is for you.
Brooke Nielsen Yang joins Elizabeth Cush to explore what happens when highly sensitive people spend years being misunderstood, invalidated, or told they are simply “too much.” They talk about how that can lead to self-abandonment, disconnection from the authentic self, and a deep mistrust of your own inner experience. Brooke shares what it can look like to begin coming home to yourself again—releasing shame, rebuilding self-trust, and recognizing sensitivity as a source of depth, wisdom, and strength.
In this episode, Brooke Nielsen Yang, a psychotherapist and coach, joins the podcast to discuss the concept of “parts work” and how it can help individuals understand different parts of themselves and manage internal conflicts. Heather and Brooke share examples from their own experiences and tools they use to help engage and navigate their human complexity. The conversation delves into the different types of parts within us, such as authentic self, protector parts, and exile parts, and how recognizing these can lead to living a more authentic life. The discussion also touches on the importance of curiosity in navigating our own internal landscape, and ways that it helps us connect with others too.
Has anyone ever told you that you’re “too sensitive” or to “stop overthinking everything”—perhaps by people who could benefit from a little more sensitivity or thinking? You may be a highly sensitive person, or HSP.
High sensitivity isn’t a diagnosis. It’s an innate trait involving deeper processing and greater responsiveness to experiences and emotions—which can also make overwhelm more common.
In this episode, therapist, writer, and HSP expert Brooke Nielsen Yang explores what it means to be highly sensitive, the strengths of the trait, and the power of understanding yourself more deeply.
Brooke Nielsen Yang is a trauma-informed psychotherapist and HSP expert who has spent more than 15 years helping highly sensitive people understand themselves, heal, and thrive.
In this episode, she explores the gifts and challenges of high sensitivity, how childhood and trauma can shape the HSP nervous system, why there is no hierarchy of suffering, and how learning she was highly sensitive transformed her own relationship with anxiety and triggers. She also shares practical insight into energetic boundaries and living more in alignment with the way you're wired.
Brooke loves conversations with room to go somewhere real. She speaks about high sensitivity, intuition, neurodivergence, trauma, self-trust, and the deeper patterns that shape how we move through the world.
She's especially drawn to curious hosts and conversations that make space for nuance, depth, warmth—and the occasional unexpected turn.