Too Conscious For This World with Candace Van Dell

What if the child who was labelled "too sensitive", "too emotional", "too much", or "the problem" was never the problem at all?

In this episode of Dysfunctional, I sit down with author and master coach Candace Van Dell to explore the idea that some people aren't broken, they're simply seeing things that others can't.

We dive into family scapegoating, highly sensitive versus highly perceptive people, ADHD, spirituality, toxic systems, emotional truth, and what happens when the person who sees the dysfunction gets blamed for it.

Candace shares her own journey from being labelled as a child with "something wrong" to becoming a leading voice helping people heal the original wound of believing they are the problem.

This is a conversation about reclaiming your perception, trusting yourself, and discovering that perhaps the thing you've spent your whole life trying to fix is actually your greatest gift.

In this episode we discuss:

Why the scapegoat is often the cycle breaker

The difference between being highly sensitive and highly perceptive

Growing up feeling misunderstood and out of place

ADHD, labels, and the medicalisation of difference

Why truth-tellers are often punished in dysfunctional systems

The relationship between spirituality and healing