The high cost of not accepting your sensitivity
Not accepting your sensitivity can feel “normal” if you grew up being criticized for being “too sensitive.” But HSPs pay a heavy price for trying to be “normal.” As a kid, I felt like the Ugly Duckling: chronically awkward and self-conscious. If you had asked me why,... Read more
Repeating the same story over and over? There may be a good reason.
If you—or someone close to you—keeps repeating the same story over and over, you can choose to go deeper and find out what’s underneath. When I start describing a recent event to a friend and they stop me and say, “You already told me about this,” boy, do I feel... Read more
How to melt your shame by being with it
Even if you’ve learned to be painfully hard on yourself, you can melt your shame with awareness and presence. If you’ve ever told yourself you were “too sensitive,” you know how painful that is. To reject a trait you were born with is to reject your very being.... Read more
Rest and downtime are essential to emotional healing. Here’s why.
The better you understand the process of emotional healing, the more effectively you can support yourself in moving through old pain. Wouldn’t it be lovely if emotional healing were rational and linear? Then we could uncover an old painful belief, analyze it, discard... 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 moreGet your FREE guide to sensitive anxiety
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