“Am I crossing the line between healthy downtime and self-isolation?”
How do you tell the difference between healthy downtime and self-isolation? For a highly sensitive person, this is an important question. A highly sensitive (HSP) friend recently asked me, “How can I tell if I’m alone because I really need downtime, or because I’m... Read more
Sensitivity to subtlety: a tenderly subversive HSP gift
While some aspects of our HSP sensory sensitivity can be annoying, inconvenient, or downright unpleasant, our sensitivity to subtlety is a gift—a key element of our unusual capacity for empathy and imagination. On weekday evenings I always keep an eye out for the... Read more
Are you neurotic to grieve losses in advance?
If you grieve losses in advance, you are not alone—or neurotic. Rather, you are experiencing an aspect of your highly sensitive trait. I feel the poignant sadness that arises at this time each year as the weather gets cooler and my dahlias wither away. I’ve... Read more
An HSP coping with a crisis
Here are my reflections on what it was like for me as an HSP coping with a crisis that occurred in our family in the past two weeks. Three weeks ago, my dad fell and broke two ribs. He had fallen 20 times in the month before that, but miraculously had not been... Read moreGet your FREE guide to sensitive anxiety
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