"To Live Better
with High Potential (HP)
and/or High Sensitivity (HS)"

 

I am Michelle Laurin, your HP/HS coach! As a person with high intellectual potential (HP) and high emotional and sensory sensitivity (HS) myself, I know how difficult it is to find professionals and therapists who understand the specific challenges of "hyper" brains.

 

Personally, my hypersensitivity led to a fibromyalgia diagnosis in 2011. Or, to put it more simply, a sentence of disability coupled with a lifetime prescription for painkillers, muscle relaxants, antidepressants, and sleeping pills. But in 2013, I met a naturopath who helped me regain my health through lifestyle changes and targeted supplements. I have since stopped all medication and graduated with flying colors from the École d'enseignement supérieur de naturopathie du Québec (ÉESNQ) and the Centre québécois de PNL (CQPNL) to become a certified coach.

 

From my earliest childhood, random people labeled me with all sorts of inaccurate diagnoses: attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism, hypochondria, and so on. But there was nothing medically abnormal about me. I was just a little "too much" of this and "not enough" of that, according to society's standards. It wasn't until 2020 that one of my NLP teachers suspected I might be gifted. This hypothesis was confirmed in 2021 by the Centre intégré de développement de la douance et du talent (CIDDT).

 

Everything started to make sense. Armed with this new information, my boundless curiosity, and my knowledge and experience as a naturopathic and NLP coach, I began to make connections between the challenges faced by high potential and highly sensitive people and those small details that can make all the difference in our physical, mental, and emotional health.

 

If I had known all this before, my life would have been so much simpler, lighter, and more fulfilling! That's why I decided to focus my practice on giftedness and high sensitivity to help other people like me recognize, understand, and optimize their unique qualities and, above all, thrive and shine with them. Bore-out , brown-out , and burn-out are not inevitable. When you learn to adapt your life to how you function, rather than the other way around, you can not only accomplish great things, but also live life to the fullest!