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 …
Mindset What is the difference between the terms ‘victim’ and ‘survivor’? ~ One feels very yucky, scary, dank and unfair. It leaves us in a weak, ineffective place of powerlessness. Other feelings that may arise from it include hopelessness, unworthiness, despair, anger, hatred. ~The other feels more uplifting, bold and inspiring. It can lead to …
What Are Your Priorities? Here’s a little quiz…name your top 5 priorities for today. Go ahead…jot them down, without reading ahead. Now, how many of those 5 are personal, related to you, FOR you? Did you include meditation or yoga or exercise? How about down time for reading or relaxing in a bath? Doing something …
Boundaries What is a boundary? “…a border and it can be physical, such as a fence between two properties, or abstract, such as a moral boundary that society decides it is wrong to cross.” (vocabulary . com) …”a psychological demarcation that protects the integrity of an individual or group or that helps the person or group …
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 …
