2021 Empowerment Guide

When it feels like the world is falling apart, it’s hard to know whether — or how — to proceed with pursuits like writing or art. After all, when our survival instincts are triggered, our focus naturally shifts to first ensuring our basic needs are met: food, shelter, water, air, sleep, clothing. It’s not surprising…

For many, this year has been a whirlwind of intense emotions, loss, grief and disruption. And many opportunities of growth have posed themselves for parents. In that avenue, this year has been one of witnessing hundreds of parents reaching out for help, accessing it, setting their sensitive children up for success while simultaneously learning how…

In an article published in November in The New York Times, Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, and an American member of the British royal family asked the question: Are you okay?” I was recently asked a similar question, “Is Everything Okay?” And my answer, probably like millions of Americans, was, no everything is not okay…

How many times have you craved the opportunity to slow down – to spend more time nestled at home with your pet, to work from home in your PJs, to be free from the pressure to attend social functions every weekend? For Sensitive People who need time for reflection and get easily overstimulated, these are…

When the Pandemic struck last March, I was just completing a 7-month on-line teacher training group with Judith Blackstone called Realization Process, Healing Ground. Judith teaches 4 main practices that can really strengthen our presence in the world as HSPs. These practices are truly the most useful resources I have found to date about living…

There’s a little-known force responsible for some of the main challenges Highly Sensitive People face. I used to witness it daily in my own life, but I had no idea what to call it, let alone how to change it. Before I tell you what it is, let me share how other HSPs have described…

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,…

As an HSP and therapist, this period during the Covid-19 pandemic has been very challenging for me. At the same time, I think I have developed a very “big picture” perspective about how other HSPs, my clients, have lived through this historical moment. (I’m choosing not to tell about the virus and the pandemic from…

It seems to me that we are going round and round in circles culturally, and unable to get beyond the painful, trauma inducing ways we have created. I know I am not alone in seeking ways to solve our problems and it has occured to me that perhaps what we need is not a new…

As highly sensitive people, we feel life’s presence, delight, sadness, hope, and fear so deeply that our feelings often sidetrack us in ways both large and small.  Overlooking a small task or two in a state of emotional distraction won’t likely spell the end of the world but what if those tiny distractions become a…