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No one knows a Sensitive Soul, like a Sensitive Soul. No one knows the struggles of an Earth Angel, like an Earth Angel. I've always been sensitive, but I haven't always understood or even liked it! My sensitivities started showing up in my childhood. I was extremely empathetic, I picked up on energy from others, and I acted and treated people with the tender touch and open heart common to the more sentient folks like myself. I was also very sensitive to my environment, suffering from severe allergies that caused migraines that started when I was 5 years old. As you probably know, supercharged sensitivity can be both a blessing and a curse. I have always been a person who others would pour out their souls to - who is able to see to the core of a person and help them from that place... but the fact that I am (almost hyper) conscious of others and their feelings often puts me at a disadvantage when it come to standing up for myself and also leaves me in a place that felt oversensitive, emotionally raw, or drained by others. Aside from that, some see sensitivity as a flaw rather than a virtue. Others will totally take advantage of a Sensitive Soul in both business and in personal life. For a time, I turned my back on my true nature and tried to grow a thick skin. I hated it and didn't like myself at all when I tried to be more like others. Denying my sensitive nature was forced and unnatural and always left me kicking my own ass because I felt guilty about the things that I had said or done. So I returned to being sensitive, nice, kind, gentle. But I also got an edge... I learned to take care of myself, to set boundaries, to assert my own needs - and also to accept and make friends with my natural perceptiveness and emotional nature and to use those characteristics to help others! So here I am.

Julie Holliday (The ME/CFS Self-Help Guru) is a writer and holistic life coach with a mission to help people with chronic illness take back control and live a relaxed, balanced more fulfilling life. She completely recovered from ME/CFS after five years and enjoyed 7 years of active, vibrant health. Although she's been stricken with the condition again, she now considers herself to be living a dream life, and wants to share all that she has learned to help others with chronic illness live one too!

Diane Brandon is the author of three books, "Dream Interpretation for Beginners - Understand the Wisdom of Your Sleeping Mind," "Intuition for Beginners - Easy Ways to Awaken Your Natural Abilities," and "Invisible Blueprints," as well as several articles, and a contributing author to "The Long Way Around - How 34 Women Found the Lives They Love" and "Speaking Out." She's currently writing her next book, "Born Aware - Memories of Those Spiritually Aware Since Birth & What We can Learn." The French edition of "Intuition for Beginners" has now been released, and the book will additionally be translated into Chinese, Korean, Russian, Estonian, and for India - thus far. Spiritually aware since birth, Diane Brandon does profound facilitating and healing work as an Integrative Intuitive Counselor (since 1992) and specializes in Essence Reading, Personal & Spiritual Growth, Dream Interpretation, Purpose and Path, Meditation, Regression, Personal Empowerment, and igniting others' inner potential and spiritual awareness. She focuses on Life Path and Life Purpose, relationships, career, children, passed-on loved ones, and general life questions. She has the gift of knowing and sharing the higher meaning of what we are dealing with in our lives. Diane brings other modalities into her work, including Dream Interpretation and Dreamwork, Individualized Guided Meditation, Regression, Natural Process Healing, and Customized Exercises and Affirmations. Many of her clients have thanked her for helping them to "transform their lives" in a positive way. She's an expert on Intuition, having researched its inner workings, and has taught it extensively in classes, workshops, seminars, private lessons, and Continuing Education at both Duke University and University of Memphis, in addition to teaching it in Corporate Seminars. She also teaches Wellness Classes on Sleep & Dreams and Guided Meditation. Diane hosted "Naturally Vibrant Living" on Web Talk Radio and Blog Talk Radio and "Vibrantly Green with Diane Brandon" on Ecology.com. She also has Meditation CDs available, including "A Journey Within Meditation," "Natural Process Healing," and "Brainstorm in the Boardroom with Great Leaders," as well as exercises for intuitive development. She's also an actor, singer, and voice-over artist. Originally from New Orleans, Diane has an A. B. from Duke University and did graduate work at University of North Carolina, in addition to French studies in Geneva, Switzerland. She also graduated from a high school for academically gifted. Her two websites are www.dianebrandon.com and www.dianebrandon.net. She may be contacted at [email protected]