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In Episode 13 of the Highly Sensitive Person Podcast, I tell a story about obsessing over sliced vs. non-sliced challah bread. Will I ruin dinner? Or will everything be fine? The suspense is riveting.
Then I cleverly segue into decision-making: HSPs analyze details in an effort to make good decisions, but sometimes this can turn into over-analysis, and analysis paralysis. The trick is to catch yourself doing this, and ask yourself, “If I’m wrong, what’s the worst that can happen?”
(And relax: there will be no “challah” and “holla” puns in this episode. Promise.)
Related Posts on This Blog:
- Decision-Free Living
- Second-Guessing Decisions
- Deadlines, Schedules, and Commitment Stress Me Out
- HSP vs. Non-HSP: The Challah Debacle
Podcast music attribution: By the Coast (2004) (Antony Raijekov) / CC BY-NC 2.5
Find the balance – thanks Kelly for this nice story!!!
Hear from you soon…
All the best and take care,
1753
Thank you for all your podcasts. I am a mess worrying about these things. My house used to be immaculate. I had a knee injury and supposed to stay put. Can’t clean or even get out in nature for my walks, which is so important to my well being. Can’t do yoga or anything I used to enjoy. Such a sad part of my life right now and no one around me understands. I cry and cry wishing I was not born HSP as It has been a ride from hell since I was raised in a abusive home growing up.
Thanks again for all you do.
Namaste
SJ
I know the feeling. You are not alone
Okay, so I really have to know… what did they do with the bread? Did they tear chunks off the slices? Do you think I might have related to your story to a very high degree?! 🙂
We just ate it like normal bread! The dinner turned out to be rather non-religious-y….we just ate dinner and didn’t do any ceremonial type things.
thank you for your podcasts! i laughed so hard on this one because i know situations like those so well! i hate making decisions.. but if it is just a minor one, i tell to myself “if you really need that long to decide, i guess the outcome doesn’t really matter!” so i just pick and dont decide! truth be told, i wouldn’t be happy with the decision anyways.. 😀
if a friend is around i just ask to make the decision for me. i just started to get into hsp a couple of days ago (though i had a suspicion for a couple of years now, but lost track of it), my friends dont know yet. but by simply admitting to them and to yourself “i’m not good at this. can you please decide?” they and i just accept it as a character trait of mine which really relieves a lot of stress! no reason to freak out. this is just me!
Oh boy, decisions are hard. My brother and I once spent an hour debating between two TVs as I wanted one for my dorm room and it literally took a person who worked there to make the decision for us (and I’m not exaggerating on the hour, it was really that long).
I also went gluten free a few years ago and quite honestly, it helped my health issues but not nearly as much as it helped in my decisions. I used to have to decided between pages of things on a menu (I’d be the one that would sit there for a long time debating all the options) but now I’m limited to maybe a handful of things considered gluten free on a menu (consider the cheesecake menu at the cheesecake factory for this, literally the only cheesecake that is gluten free is the chocolate one; decision made before they hand me the menu…unless of course they decide to make another one gluten free in the future), and when I take into account what I’m in the mood for, I’m left with usually one choice. It even makes grocery shopping a bit easier.