What do you do when you wake up in the night?
It’s easy to get anxious when you wake up in the night. Do everything you can to ensure a good night’s sleep, but have strategies ready for those times you end up awake. For a highly sensitive person, sleep is like air. We need lots of it, and we can’t go long... Read more
“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 moreGet your FREE guide to sensitive anxiety
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