Emily Agnew, Author at Sustainably Sensitive

3 ways to recognize shame

Aug 6, 2019 | 4 comments

Once you know how to recognize shame in all its forms, you can begin to heal this most toxic of emotions. When you feel shame, you think you feel awful because you deserve to feel awful. in other words, the shame feels like an inevitable and unavoidable consequence of... Read more

4 ways to manage the overstimulation caused by a big project

Jul 30, 2019 | 0 comments

How do you manage the overstimulation caused by a big project? Stretching yourself to realize a vision—or cope with a pressing emergency– is bound to leave you overwhelmed at times, especially if you are built sensitive. But with good strategies in place, you can... Read more

The “blood oath” that caused my “HSP nervous breakdown”…and a look at my new logo

Dec 4, 2018 | 0 comments

During our trip to India in October, we hired an auto rickshaw to take us up the hill to the Chamundeshwari Temple outside Mysore. The mid-day sun was beating down, and our driver advised us not to attempt the traditional pilgrimage climb of a thousand steps, but to... Read more

I left work behind for 16 days in India. Was I irresponsible…or inspired?

Nov 13, 2018 | 2 comments

I just returned from a 16-day trip to India. That I went at all is a minor miracle: my partner Duke had been asking me for years to go with him, but until now I had always said “no.” I had not been able to get my highly sensitive (HSP) brain around the 30 hours of... Read more

How I try to stay calm in the face of current events

Oct 2, 2018 | 6 comments

An earlier version of this post appeared on December 12, 2017. As I wrote it, I was deeply shaken. I had just learned 14 people had been killed when a gunman opened fire at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, in an act characterized as homegrown violent... Read more