New study: the powerful benefits of a Focusing attitude
If you are highly sensitive, you can benefit profoundly from maintaining a Focusing attitude throughout the day. In honor of this new year, I’d like to share with you some good news from the Focusing world. As a long-time Focuser, I’m well-aware of the many ways... Read more
Why connection to your spiritual intuition is the best gift you can give yourself
As an HSP, do you struggle to find a connection to your spiritual intuition? Many of us do. Yet it is our most important resource. Cleaning up after dinner, I rescued this miniature “chard tree” just before it disappeared down the drain. I love its color and shape.... Read more
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 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 more
Why your HSP creativity is a double-edged sword
Learning how to manage your HSP creativity is a lifetime project, because your life itself is an ongoing act of creation. If you are a new reader of this newsletter, this might be the first time you’ve heard me wax poetic about dahlias. It won’t be the last, though. I... Read more
How to reverse the anxiety spiral
How can you reverse the anxiety spiral? Understanding the power of the maelstrom can help you find your way back to calmer waters. This updated post was first published on June 18, 2019. I was not cut out to be a deep-sea diver. As a child I was unnerved by the mere... Read moreGet your FREE guide to sensitive anxiety
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