Energy and the Highly Sensitive What’s the most challenging part, for you, of being Highly Sensitive? One thing that almost all of my clients share is their difficulty dealing with energy. That might be the energy of a room or event, of a specific person in relationship, even of the world as a whole and …
What Happens When We Stuff Our Feelings? Our emotions can be intense, even scary. For highly sensitive people they can seem too much to handle. So, it’s common for HSPs and non-HSPs alike to stuff our feelings so we don’t need to feel them and certainly not let others see them or have to deal …
Honor yourself Do you find yourself putting others before you…often, or even always? Are your decisions based on what others like, even if they don’t resonate with you? Do you ignore, stuff or negate your feelings or find that you don’t even know how you feel? It may be time to start learning how to …
Self Care Tips for Sensitivities If you’re Highly Sensitive, you’ve experienced some reactivity to things in the environment, whether related to sound, touch, sight, smell, even taste. You’ve likely also felt challenged by others’ feelings, cultural and world events, even your own emotions. Sensory Processing Sensitivity, the official term for high sensitivity, describes this…we are …
Perfectly Imperfect I spent a lot of my life adhering to a perfectionistic streak. Ok, more than a streak…I felt like I had to be perfect at all times to be ok. That was exhausting and led to self doubt and lack of trust in myself, and so much stress and anxiety. In my senior …
How to Share Sensitivities with Others Highly Sensitives often grow up learning to hide or minimize their feelings. We get tired of hearing that we’re ‘too’ this or ‘not enough’ that or that we need to just relax and let things go. As we enter adulthood this has become such a habit it can be …
A Personal Silent Retreat : My Takeaways Have you ever waited a really long time to try something (maybe even decades)…massage, a facial, skydiving, could be anything, then wish you’d tried it years ago? I’ve certainly heard about silent retreats, and know many who travel sometimes great distances to participate in them and swear by …
Successful Meditation The title of this post is a bit of a misnomer…you can’t ‘fail’ at meditation…all meditation, regardless of how much your mind wanders or how fidgety you are, is successful meditation. The key to that success, however, is actually Doing it, or more accurately, making the time to Be. One of the most …
Find Your Center in Challenging Times We’re probably all expecting some tumult in November. Things right now may seem unprecedented and extreme, but the reality is…there’s always something going on that we can feel stressed or overwhelmed by. So how can you make it through the coming month(s) without adding to that stress, or even …
Expecting Rejection : 4 Ways of Changing HSP Self-Talk We all have statements that we listen to at a subconscious level…things we heard while growing up, learned through early experiences, came to believe in order to make sense of our surroundings. If these are positive, such as, “Life is fair and abundant,” or “I can …
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