Posts by Ritu Kaushal
Finding The Nurturing Sensitive Person Within
Five years ago, I moved from India to the United States as a trailing spouse. It was soon after that I read Dr. Elaine Aron’s book, The Highly Sensitive Person. The book felt familiar, and yet new, giving me a context for the “too sensitive” label that had followed me since childhood. Now, I was…
Read MoreAre You A Sensitive INFP?
Photo by Rod Long on Unsplash I n our memories, some experiences from our childhood stand out in stark relief. Something about them made an impression on us. Something about them was charged with a feeling that we then carry into our lives, consciously or unconsciously. A Sensitive INFP And Not Fitting In For me,…
Read MoreHSPs And Developing Self-Compassion
Photo by Jess Bailey on Unsplash If you are someone like me, you know that are you are sensitive, and yet, you often struggle to integrate this knowledge in your life. If you are someone like me, you also have an incessant voice in your head that keeps on discounting the little onward steps that…
Read MoreGiving Up Perfectionism For Greater Joy
A few months back, my husband and I had a little conversation in which we discussed swapping and trying out each other’s interests. Mine is painting. His is building puzzles, of the 3,000 to 5,000 pieces kind. Before he met me, my husband didn’t have any particular interest in art. But in our time together…
Read MoreReparenting Your HSP Child
Recently, I read the book Belonging by Toko-pa Turner. I think I turned to it because I wasn’t feeling a sense of belonging in my own life, and sometimes like books do, it exerted a kind of magical pull on me. In it, she talked about so many things that I am strongly attracted to,…
Read MoreWorking With Lower Chakras Can Help Sensitive People
Working with chakras can be healing for highly sensitive people. If you are interested in holistic modalities of healing, you have probably heard of the concept of chakras and the system of chakra healing. These words might sound esoteric from where you are. But learning about chakras, experimenting with what you learn, even in small…
Read MoreThe Biggest Mistake Of Sensitive People While Practicing Grounding
If you are a highly sensitive person who belongs to an online community for HSPs such as a Facebook group, you might have heard other sensitives say things like “I feel like I am an alien” or “I feel like I don’t belong on this earth.” As someone who has felt these exact same feelings,…
Read MoreA Sneaky Way Narcissists Discount You
It’s been a few short months since my book The Empath’s Journey was released. It’s a memoir of rediscovering what the words “too sensitive” mean in my own life and is set against the backdrop of the first few years after I relocated from India to the United States. Writing books has always been…
Read MoreSetting Boundaries For Responsive Sensitive People
For a long time, just like other sensitive people, I searched for ways to make myself feel less. Everyone else thought I shouldn’t be so affected by the world, that it wasn’t normal. And believing that it was abnormal to feel so much, I tried to contain it. Experiments With Self-Protection I tried to push…
Read MoreAn Invitation To Intuition
One day, some years back, someone very close to me said in words close to these: You are not very intuitive. I wasn’t ? That came as a complete surprise to me. Is that what she thought? That was completely opposite to how I thought of myself. I thought I was, in fact, very intuitive.…
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