Episode #34: Navigating Midlife Transitions as a Highly Sensitive Person with Kirsten Beske

From highly stressful careers to nervous system–aligned lives, here’s how to challenge yourself and foster personal growth without burning out.

Welcome back to The Happy HSP Podcast. I’m your host, Kimberly Marshall, and today I’m joined by Kirsten Beske. She’s a former litigation attorney turned psychotherapist and ICF-certified coach who specializes in helping people move through midlife transitions with more passion, purpose, and ease.  

We explore how designing work and life around your capacity, not only your capabilities, can help you build a new direction that aligns more closely with your needs. So, if you’re questioning your next career moves, sense of purpose, or how to manage overwhelm during big life changes, then this episode is for you.

I hope you enjoy it!

Kim: Okay. Kirsten, thank you so much for joining me today. It’s great to see you.

Kirsten: Nice to be here. Thanks for having me.

Kim: Absolutely. So, first I’d love to learn about your journey in high sensitivity and how you found out about the term and what led you to that discovery.

Kirsten: Right. Well, I think for so many of us who are highly sensitive people, we’ve always been this way. It’s really like when did the label come into your life, when you recognized yourself to be part of the label and say, I first identified as an introvert, and obviously not all HSPs are introverts, but I just put it under that label. I had never heard of the HSP and I was like, oh yeah, I need a lot of downtime.  

Oh, yeah, I’m sensitive to people. But it was probably less than 10 years ago where I first realized that there’s this knit thing called highly sensitive person and oh my, I probably am one of those. And then of course, once I started looking into it and educated myself a bit, I’m like, oh yes, this is definitely me. And this explains so much of my journey, and I believe I’ve read a book, and of course now it’s a completely escaping me, but it was some book that had the HSP in the title, and that was just a kind of aha moment, like, oh yes, this is a thing, and this is me.

And a lot of the people that I work with both in my psychotherapy practice and now in my coaching business, just not all of them, but many of them tend to be very sensitive people in all the good ways.

Kim: Yeah, I hear that a lot that it seems like a lot of HSP professionals, I don’t know if that’s redundant, HSP professionals seem to connect with and collect and magnetize other HSPs.

Kirsten: Yeah, I think so, because I think we do see each other. I mean, isn’t that one of the gifts of an HSP is to be able to see someone at a very deep and authentic level and reflect that to them? And so, then if someone does it back to you, you’re like, oh, that doesn’t happen that much. Right. And so, you kind of recognize each other.

Kim: Yeah. It’s almost like we’re used to being that container, but when someone can reciprocate that, it’s like, oh, what’s going on here?

Kirsten: Exactly, exactly. It’s like, I am not used to this shining the light back at me. No, don’t do that.

Kim: Yeah. Yeah, I hear you. So, you started out, I was reading your bio in Harvard and law school.

Kirsten: Yeah, so I did go to Harvard undergrad, and then I went to Boston University for law school. And I didn’t go lightly. I didn’t just blindly go into law. I actually was a paralegal for a year with a nice law firm in Boston trying to figure out if I wanted to go into law. They all had nice lives. It was a relatively small firm, and I thought, yeah, I think I can do that.

And so, I had been a competitive athlete, and so litigation seemed like a really natural segue because in litigation, you’re fighting with the other side, and that’s actually your job to fight. You’re supposed to be a zealous advocate. And so, I thought it would translate from being a competitive athlete. I was a tennis player at Harvard to litigation. In fact, it did. You just had to use your intellect instead of your body.

And for about 10 or less years I really enjoyed that because it was just a challenge and it felt okay in retrospect, knowing what I know now, I was constantly going kind of against my own grain to be in conflict and fighting, but I had this value system that overrode that, which was just this idea that everyone deserved representation, and our legal system requires everyone to have some kind of advocacy.

And so, I always just thought, well, I’m helping my clients, and that’s my job. And I put up with it for a long time, and I say put up with it in the sense that a lot of lawyers out there are pretty rough and lots of conflict. However, I was good at it, and I just kind of was doing it. You start being good at something and you think, well, I’m good at it, so I’ll just keep doing it.

Right now, my favorite line in my current life is, just because you’re good at something doesn’t mean you have to keep doing it. That’s my favorite statement to all my clients that I work with is, yeah, you’re good at that and we can parlay your skill into something else that uses still those superpowers, but in a way that’s more aligned with who you are now.

So, that’s kind of my current work, but I learned that the hard way by being in this field of law, fighting with people. And then I had my kids and my two oldest kids, without belaboring the stories, one almost died at their well-baby visit. We ended up in a helicopter. They’re fine now. They had a little heart tumor, had a out in Boston.

Kim: That’s so scary.

Kirsten: Here we are 25 years later, fine. The other one was born three months early, right after nine 11, almost died several times. Fine now 24 years old. But at the time, I was still practicing law trying to keep these kids alive, and that was when I hit the overwhelm. I just couldn’t, my nervous system and everything just could not handle fighting with people while doing this mothering thing to these high need kids at the time.

So, that was when I started wondering, well, what else could I possibly do? I’ve spent, at that point, practically 14 years being a lawyer, so it’s hard to throw that away. But I went to who actually does kind of what I do now, and just helped me talk through what are my values, what do I like doing, what’s my interest in my passions and how to reframe it all.

So, I went back to school and got my master’s in psychology and became a psychotherapist, which to me was the most fun thing I could possibly imagine. The only reason I didn’t want to do it in the first instance when it came up in the work was because that just sounds like luxury to me. I love learning. I love new things. I love being a student, and I’ve always been a love of psychology, and I always was like the self-help queen. I had every book on everything.

So, it just kind of took that natural inclination and then used it to more directly help people, which is why I had gone into the law in the first place. So that really worked out well. And then I also worked with my nervous system better as a highly sensitive person, then one-on-one with my clients and my office, and I can use all that deep empathy and all the superpowers we have to relate interpersonally and help work with my clients so they can have a better life. So that really aligned really well with my HSP qualities.

Kim: I love that so much because it’s like you went into law wanting to be of service, it just, you were doing it in a different way, and then when you found the psychology, it was like you could still be of service, but in a gentler profession. Was that your sense?

Kirsten: Yeah, gentler and less adversarial and more cooperative and coworking. You’re treating each other with respect at all times. So, I did, I think we were talking earlier, so you know this already, but the listeners, don’t…I did go through a divorce midwife, and at that time then I was on my own with a couple of kids. And so, my psychotherapy income was inconsistent in the sense that when people don’t come to their appointments, generally you don’t get paid.

And at that point, it became kind of clear that I needed a little bit more of a reliable income since I was going to be supporting myself. And this job appeared to work as an in-house counselor at a high school, an independent private high school, and I took it. And so, it was a great job. I loved working with the kids, but what I found, and I had not attended a boarding school.

This was a boarding school. I didn’t live on campus, but I commuted to the school. But I learned that’s a very intense environment for interpersonal interactions. So, for an HSP-type person, a sensitive person, there’s a lot going on at all hours of the day. Not a lot of boundaries, not a lot of downtime. And so, I had the benefit of going home, but when I felt there was always a pull to be more involved in the community and spend more hours at whatever time doing these things, and I was like, my system just rebelled.

I just knew I needed the downtime, and I didn’t at that point, did not have this definition of HSP yet in my life. I just knew that I cannot do that, and it’s not because I don’t love the job or want to do the work, but I just couldn’t be that overstimulated all the hours that they needed me to be. So, I finally, I transitioned into my coaching career during that time where I got certified as an ICF-certified coach and did a lot of work and then did eventually move full-time into my coaching job. But the impetus to get out of that job was absolutely the overstimulation from that environment to my nervous system as HSP, which is just so interesting in retrospect. I did not understand that at the time.

Kim: Yeah, you bring up so many incredible points because I also help highly sensitive people make career transitions. And when you’re coming to the end of a job or a career that isn’t right for you, that overstimulation just takes over everything. It makes it so difficult to make that next step. How was that for you? And I am guessing that’s why you kind of landed in the same realm with career coaching and helping people in that way?

Kirsten: So, I call it midlife transition coaching, only because it’s not exclusively for career, but often can involve a career move, but not always. Often people are coming off of a divorce or even just, I’ve got a whole cohort of people that are more in that late-stage career where they don’t want to retire all the way because it’s too early and who wants to do nothing, but they want to slow down, cut back, and figure out how to retool their day-to-day life so they can have a more sustainable last chapter before they hit that actual retirement date.

So, it can be a career change, it could be a career acceleration, but it also can be a slow down or reevaluation about what they want to fill their time with. But it also can just be on the personal side. Who am I once my kids have gone off…a lot of empty nesters.

My kids are finally gone. They were the main focus of my life, but now I have the time and space, what am I going to do with it? So, it really is kind of a more holistic like, okay, let’s just look at your strengths, look at your values, look at how you operate you at your best, and then let’s take all those things you already have in place and just reconfigure them. You don’t have to reinvent yourself at a whole cloth. You don’t have to throw the baby out with the bathwater. We get to take all the wisdom and skills that you’ve already acquired in this life you’ve had, and then we just redesign them so that they fit you better. So that’s kind of the work that I do.

Kim: Exactly, more alignment with who you are and what you’re looking for. And that changes as we age, as we grow, as we go through these transitions.

Kirsten: Absolutely. Yep. Different stages require different things. 

Kim: Absolutely. So, is it more about, would you say letting yourself evolve and coming back to the self? What’s your sense?

Kirsten: Well, I think it’s both. Coming back to the self is always important, but I also think, and this is one of those HSP things that’s counterintuitive. I think when HSPs and also I would say women in general, which are primarily the bulk of my clients, we’re sometimes a little challenge adverse, and especially because challenge can be so upsetting to our nervous system.

Kim: Yeah.

Kirsten: So one thing I’d like to remind everyone is we can do these hard things as long as it’s a time-boundaried challenge, and we don’t want to go through life with no challenge because that doesn’t give us the sense of achievement and that sense of agency and that sense of accomplishment, that really helps build us up to who we are, knows we can be more when we want.

So when a challenge is aligned and it’s going to get you in the direction that you actually aspire to, I like to help people through those challenges together using all the support I can bring into a relationship, mostly because of my training in psychology, but to not shy away from the challenges, the path of least resistance isn’t always going to get you where you want to be, so you have to be able to handle those short bouts of challenge towards the end that you’re trying to get to. So that’s kind of the counterintuitive thing because yes, we want our systems to be at ease, and we want to be able to recalibrate, and we can do that if we plan it out correctly with still having these moments of challenge where we elevate ourselves a little bit more.

Kim: Such a great way to put it. It’s like you don’t have to take on a huge challenge all at once, but you also not can’t, but it doesn’t really benefit you to sit pretty and comfortably all the time. Just mental challenges.

Now, when you say time, do you mean you give yourself a month or two to expand a little bit, then you take a break and then you expand a little bit and take a break? What does that look like?

Kirsten: Well, so I think it’s, it’s more challenge specific, but kind of reminding the client, the person I’m working with, that there will be an end point to the current challenge. I think of a couple examples. I recently did this thing where, I don’t know if you’re a pickleball player, but I started playing competitive pickleball and there was going to be a pro league, like a senior pro league for people over 50, but there was a tryout for it down in Virginia.

And so of course, that’s the most stressful thing I can imagine getting to Virginia and then going to do a competitive play tryout while people watch you with their clipboards and decide where they’re going to draft you to their team. But I wanted to see if I could compete at that level.

So, I got myself down there, and I just kept telling myself, it’s just two days, two days. And I scheduled in several days off on the backside, which is what I do whenever I have a challenge that I know is going to really sap all my energy. And then I went down and I did it, and then I took my recovery time and eventually I found out I got drafted.

So, now I’m a senior pro pickleball player for the Boston Dragons team, but if I hadn’t overridden my desire to not go through that overstimulation for two days, I would not be where I am now. And so I think that’s the kind of time-limited challenge I’m speaking of where we have a thing, even if it’s giving a workshop or even you with this podcast, if you’re willing to do that short term stretch for yourself to get towards that goal, knowing that then on the backside you can build in all the support and comfort and recovery that you need, then you can do these things. And I think that’s important to remember.

Kim: That is such a great concept because I feel like that stops so many of us in our tracks is getting over that initial starting something.

Kirsten: That’s hard, and that is going to be a big challenge. Yeah.

Kim: Yeah. It’s unfamiliar, and we love to think ourselves into corners when you take action and you, like you said, it’s just two days giving myself that. And then I love that you put the buffer at the end of that.

I’m curious too, about your journey as a lawyer. That must have been so stressful, but you didn’t know that about yourself at the time. But I feel, yeah, I just feel like that’s such a stressful job. It must feel so different to be in your profession now.

Kirsten: Right? Well, I picked being a litigator on purpose, and yet that is probably one of the more stressful pieces of law you could pick. When you have a trial, it’s time-limited, so you’re going to get there and have to try the thing and then you’ll be done.

But no, I was definitely not as aware of my energy at that time and how depleted I would get. And frankly, I used to go on vacation when I was a lawyer and I would spend the first two days getting a massive headache, which I named my relaxation headache because my body was so used to being so full of adrenaline that when that stopped, I would get these horrible headaches and that would happen every time I went on vacation.

I also had a jaw, what do you call that when you grind your teeth at night? And I would get these bite plates put in by the dentist and I’d grind right through ’em. And once I stopped practicing law, no more bite plate, and I very rarely get the relaxation headaches at all anymore. So, there were signs that I was very much not in a very good zone, not a sustainable place, but until, you know what, if that’s all you’ve known, then you’re not going to realize there’s something different to be.

So, I’m just very grateful that I was able to see that there’s something else, another way of being, and then to be able to embrace that and go with that.

Kim: Yeah, we’ll talk about resiliency. I can’t imagine because it just doesn’t seem like something that most highly sensitive people would choose to go into.

Kirsten: Well, we could just say pure ignorance sometimes. 

Kim: Probably the intellectual part of it was big, I’m guessing.

Kirsten: Yeah, there were lots of good reasons to do it. I just did not understand my nervous system. And to be fair, you’re quite young when you make these decisions, so your brain’s not even fully developed. How would you know? Right, absolutely.

Kim: Yeah. So, what do you struggle with as a highly sensitive person now even after all that learning, even after all that resilience and training, what would you say you still see as a little bit of a challenge?

Kirsten: Great. Well, I still am conflict-avoidant, especially in personal relationships.

Kim: Wow, that is funny.

Kirsten:  Yep. Because you just don’t want to upset anyone that’s part of that, the people pleasing and the empathy. But, I’ve learned through my various relationships, it’s so important to name what’s going on and have these conversations. And even in the best relationship, there’s going to be times when you just need to have communication.

So, I think learning to have hard conversations in a non-confrontational way as a great skillset to alleviate that. So, it’s not really conflict, it’s just a discussion about these differing perspectives that’s more helpful. And, of course, visibility. Here I am, I’m coaching, I trying to get my message out to the world, and as I eased into this profession, I had a lot of hurdles to get over with visibility because even though I would say I tried cases in front of people, I am good at making a presentation. It always takes a lot of energy, always.

And I think that’s because you’re just using so much of it for the feeling and connecting piece of things. So, along the way, I have the challenge of visibility. Do I have to get up to be in front of people teaching or shining my light as sometimes people haven’t said to do? What’s my message that I want to share?

So, I think, again, just overcoming those challenges to stretch your limits of what’s comfortable towards an end that’s more important than your comfort. So, it remains a challenge. If someone told me I could give a TED talk tomorrow, I would say yes, and then I would have a very hard time getting ready for it, but I would do it.

Kim: Well, that doesn’t go away, does it?

Kirsten: But you realize you won’t die. But it still takes the energy.

And I still need to schedule a lot of downtime on the backside of my hard things. So with this team I’m on with the pickleball. We travel for these weekend competitions where we basically are competing all day Saturday and all day Sunday.

So, I first scheduled only one day off the first time we had one. I’m like, well, that wasn’t enough. So now I’ve got two and a half days of nothing on the back end of those because it’s just a lot. But I love it, and it’s loud. I don’t know if people play pickleball, they’ll know people play music when there’s pickleball. It is not like a tennis or golf-style sport, it’s like, and so it’s just after being in that environment for two days and competing, it’s just like, okay, can I have a self-isolation chamber please? I would like some quiet and I do need to relax and chill out.

So, there’s always still building in the recovery time for all the things that are hard. And I’m still a parent. I have a 14-year-old now who I adopted about seven years ago with my wife, and she is 14-, and 14-year-olds and 13-year-olds last year, have a lot of work to do with their nervous systems, especially if they have a trauma background, my kiddo does.

So, I experienced through her more challenges. I see her self-regulation challenges, and I have so much empathy for them because it’s not her fault, and I can watch myself absorb her energy and then have to work really wisely with myself to not get drawn into her, I don’t know what we’ll call it, but the middle of the meltdown, we do not need two people melting down just one the child.

So, that remains a challenge too, because when you’re that energetically aligned or empathic, sometimes you can absorb other people’s energy and not understand that it is not yours. And so, I’ve woken up in mornings and I’ll start writing in my journal about how I am mad about this, and I hate this. And I’m like, wait, wait a second. I don’t think this is me. I think this is her energy that I’ve absorbed that I do not need to have. So just distinguishing where we end and where someone else begins as HSP is a really important skillset.

Kim: Gosh, it’s such, so many great points there. And the one thing that is coming up for me is just that even in the professional space with people that have all this experience and help people on these journeys, we still have these challenges. It’s never really fixed or done, or there’s always room for growth.

Kirsten: Never adult moment. You’ll not be bored on your personal journey, growth or personal growth journey. There you go.

Kim: Yeah, boredom is not included.

Kirsten: Yeah, no, exactly. So, I do strengths. I often emphasize different strengths with my clients. And love of learning is one of those character strengths that often is a great one to have, and I have it in my list when I do my assessment, and I am always really grateful for that because really that is part how else do you get through life? You have to really enjoy all these lessons as they come along, and you get to learn at every phase and every stage.

Kim: Oh my gosh, absolutely. I would take that over stagnancy any day.

Kirsten: Absolutely. Yeah.

Kim: So, what do you love about high sensitivity and what would you celebrate about the trait?

Kirsten: Well, I mean, I love my clients who are highly sensitive because they’re so multifaceted, they’re so kind, usually because they have that empathic, compassionate side, often quite creative humans, creative, not necessarily in say, the visual arts or the performing arts, although that could be part of it, but just creative in how they live their life and the work I do with people, creativity is really helpful because you can put together the puzzle pieces in a number of different ways, and it helps them be able to really be open to the different shifts that can happen.

So, there’s a certain that creative piece helps with just the visioning of a better future, I guess I would say. I’m just trying to think. I mean, obviously there’s all the regular upside to being an HSP person as far as your interpersonal skills go and things like that.

I think I do see a lot of women that have gone to, if you think of the pendulum, there’s the being very attuned to people, and then they’re being over-attuned to others and not attuned to yourself. So, then you fall into that people pleasing mode. And I do a fair amount of work with folks who have gotten a little stuck on the people pleasing side and just they know it intellectually, but to really start to address it behaviorally and how to change things so that on the ground you really are taking care of yourself, not necessarily more than you take care of the other people, but at least as much. So, those are some strengths I see with people.

Kim: And what would you say to highly sensitive people who might be struggling finding happiness or purpose or joy in their lives?

Kirsten: Oh, well, I’d say, come work with me.

Kim: Yeah, exactly.

Kirsten: So often, if you can find that core sense of purpose and meaning, that can define and outweigh everything else, and that’s kind of what you talked about with me and my journey so much of the time, the mission, the weight of the mission, because it was so important with what values and purpose I had outweighed my discomfort.

So, I think getting really clear on what’s your purpose at this particular stage of life that you are now at, because it can change over time or the way it manifests can change at every stage. It’s just being able to take the time and the space to look at yourself and kind of get that kind of objective viewpoint on yourself so that you can then take wise action towards aligning your outer and inner circumstances to match how you want it to be. So yeah, looking at purpose and meaning and getting clear on that to great first step.

Kim: Step, do you find that that can be a challenging piece to the puzzle? Getting that clarity? I find, especially personally and in the work I do, that initial step can be so hard. You’re just not sure where you want to go.

Or even with highly sensitive people or myself, we have so many interests, like you were mentioning before, not every single thing is something just because good at it doesn’t mean I have to do it. When you’re making a transition, having clarity of where you want to go can be hard. That can be one of the hardest pieces of the puzzle, would you say?

Kirsten: Absolutely. And so that’s why the order I do things in my program, I have a six-month program is we start with just personal inventory. I’ll call it the assessments, strengths, values, whatever. We don’t even try to go to what does that mean and where will we go with it yet?

Then the second part is visioning and trying to then really tap into on the foundation of now we know who we are now, then we use some different visioning techniques or just thinking, if you just think straight up design work, let’s iterate a whole bunch of things and then just weed out which ones. There’s a lot of different techniques you can use to get out of the fog of like, oh my God, I need to pick the right thing and just really get it all out there. Then you can pick, and I sometimes do three paths just to start, because no one wants to have to pick one and hope it’s not wrong.

But then there’s always the, okay, how are we going to test this out and how are we going to actually take some real steps in a direction and tolerate that? And so that middle part, sometimes the visioning is hard, but actually getting into action and seeing really real-life testing, a couple things in a direction that I feel like is sometimes a secret sauce of actually moving a needle versus just having an aha moment, oh, this is aha moment, but not actually making real-life changes for it.

I think of that as where I am very much going along, holding hands with the people as a guide to get through the mindset shifts that have to happen to let yourself move through that transformational process. And then you get to the other side, and then by then hopefully if we’ve done our work right, you’ve got a bunch of skills you can use to keep that momentum going.

Kim: Yeah, there’s a discovery process in there. It’s not just a decision and you head headlong into it. There’s discovery along the way, and like you said, mindset shifts continue you to take those steps with more confidence.

Kirsten: Yes, yes. Because change is scary, period, whether you’re the most bold and confident person or not.

Kim: Yeah. I feel like we all want that reassurance that it’s going to end in the way we’re thinking,

Kirsten: And so often it evolves, and sometimes it evolves in beautiful ways, better than we ever would’ve known. 

Kim: Exactly. Yeah. That’s the hope, right?

Kirsten: Yeah. It’s sometimes happens. Yeah.

Kim: Well, thank you so much for that. That was really beautiful. And you’re working on, you have a Spark Accelerator program that you offer, is that right?

Kirsten: Yeah. So I have this, my one-on-one next Spark accelerator program is that six-month program that I was speaking of, and I usually take about a handful of clients at a time. So, as people graduate out, I usually have one or two spots available. So, whenever your listeners are hearing this, it’s highly likely that there either is or will be a spot available. So, I always encourage everyone to reach out to me or follow me on one of my social media channels to see when some spots open up, but that’s kind of my magical program where I take the people and work one-on-one with them and take them through all those steps I spoke of and get to the other side where you’ve kind of redesigned your life.

And I’ll also mention that I don’t say someone comes to me and they’re like, I’m not really happy with my job. I had more than one person go through my program and stay at their job, but stay at their job in a new way. I like to call it job crafting or rearranging some circumstances to make it tolerable. So, working with me doesn’t mean you have to be ready to make this huge leap, although a lot of people do, but it just means you want to take a look and how can I be happier? Do I have to leave, or do I stay? And how do I make that decision?

Kim: What are the changes I can make that I can be happier or more fulfilled here?

Kirsten: Yeah, exactly.

Kim: It doesn’t have to be a huge leap. There are things you can do to alter even the path where you’re at and stay in certain places.

Kirsten: Exactly. Exactly.

Kim: Yeah. And where can people follow along on your journey?

Kirsten: Well, so because I’m old, I am mostly on Facebook, which I know all the kids are like, oh, only old people are on Facebook. I have a website, which is my name, dot com, kirstenbeske.com. But if I get a little better on Instagram, I’ll be over there more. But I am on Instagram as well. I just don’t get over there as much. So, Facebook is probably the best place to find me.

Kim: Awesome. Well, thank you so much for joining me today. I appreciate it.

Kirsten: Well, thank you for having me.

Thanks so much for listening in on my conversation with Kirsten. I hope it reminds you that change can be gentle, and there are ways to stay grounded and honor your needs even while challenging yourself to evolve and grow.

And if you’re a highly sensitive who’s person navigating your own midlife transition, know that you’re not behind or too much. You’re going through a deep and meaningful process of change, and pursuing alignment is something you’re allowed to do at any stage of life. So do your best to welcome the transition and allow yourself to grow with lots kindness and grace.

Until next time. Take care!

About Kirsten Beske:

Kirsten Beske, J.D., M.A. 

“Redesign your Life. Reimagine Your Work. Rekindle Your Joy.”

Kirsten guides mid- and late-career women to reimagine and redesign their Next Chapter of life for more passion, vitality, and meaning. 

A Harvard graduate, former litigation attorney and law firm partner, Kirsten pivoted mid-career to better align with her values and life’s purpose and became a clinical psychotherapist.   

As a certified coach, Kirsten works with clients around the globe to expand and claim their hard-earned inner wisdom and real-life experience and design a fresh new chapter of life and work at each new stage of life.

You can find out more about Kirsten and her Next Spark coaching programs at www.kirstenbeske.com.

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Kimberly Marshall is an ICF-certified Intuition and Alignment coach for highly sensitive people (HSPs) and host of The Happy HSP Podcast. After 20 years in the publishing industry working for companies like Time Inc., Monster.com, and W. W. Norton, she left her corporate career to pursue work that better suited her HSP needs. She now helps HSPs reconnect with their intuition, energy, and soul’s purpose so they can live gentle, heart-centered lives in alignment with who they truly are.

Through her work, Kimberly hopes to shed more light on the reality of living with high sensitivity and inspire more HSPs to embrace their empathetic, loving, and gentle natures.

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