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How Doing Your Inner Work Saves You
It is normal for humans to feel pulled in many different directions at once. It is also part of life to have many different pressures or demanding energies trying to lay claim to our time and energy. These natural parts of life can be challenging for sensitive people who connect strongly with energy. Energy Pointers…
Read MoreIdentity Is Just The Beginning
Photo by Jukan Tateisi on Unsplash For sensitive people, there has been a feeling of something missing for a long time, that somehow we were missing a piece of a puzzle. That missing understanding was provided by the discovery of the trait of sensory processing sensitivity by Dr. Elaine Aron. Our sensitivity is a biologically…
Read MoreHighly Self-Employed
For much of my working life (and I’m in my 50s, so it’s been a while), I struggled with the demands of the “normal” 40-hour work week. Working the way our society seemed to insist I work in order make a living made me feel like I was dying. I needed more peace, more depth,…
Read MoreIn Search Of A Real Conversation
I like a real conversation. I do not like a faux conversation. I do not like pretend conversations. I do not like manipulative conversations. It can be quiet around me. What Is A Real Conversation, Anyway? It probably sounds silly and perhaps a little whiney – but what is a real conversation? It may be…
Read MoreEmpowering Parents With Sensitive Children
My sister feels big feelings. I didn’t know that at first. At first I thought she was just sad and mad all the time. At first I thought I did something wrong when I was mad. At first I thought she was always doing something wrong. At least that’s how it seemed. My parents loved…
Read MoreSpirituality and Empowerment: A Love Letter From Jacquelyn Strickland
I have yet to meet a highly sensitive person, myself included, who has not embarked on some type of a self-reflection journey that seeks deeper understanding and truth about existential questions such as: “Who am I?” “What is the purpose of my life?” “How can I create and live a more authentic HSP life?”…
Read MoreLiving By My Own Rules: A Guide For Sensitive People
Do you ever wish you could time travel back to an era that was simpler, slower and more HSP friendly? Although I appreciate many of the benefits of living in this age, I often long for the time of my childhood when I could easily spend an entire day reading on the couch without interruption…
Read MoreFrom Sensitive Chameleon To Sensitive Badass
I grew up thinking there was something terribly wrong with me. The world felt deafening to me. Like the volume on life was turned all the way up, all the time. I rarely felt safe or calm, it was as though I had no skin… everything hit me right to the core. I desperately wanted…
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 MoreWere You Burdened With Too Much Too Soon?
Our childhood experience, whether consciously or unconsciously, can shape our lives today. It affects our personalities, ways of relating to others and even levels of career success. The Burden Of Emotional Parentification We all play a particular role in our family system. Some of us are the ‘golden boys/ girls’, some of us are crowned…
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