by Alane Freund | May 4, 2021
Sometimes life just feels like it wears us down. This has especially been true in the spring of 2021. Covid vaccines are rolling out, and some HSPs are ambivalent or confused about what it all means for them personally and for the world…Will I have a strong reaction...
by Alane Freund | May 3, 2021
Highly sensitive professionals are likely to be one or both. It didn’t take me long to realize that working in the system wasn’t my sweet spot. I had lots of jobs in traditional “systems”. I was a sexually transmitted disease counselor in the department of...
by Alane Freund | Jan 5, 2021
The change of calendar years is just one in the long series of “new” year celebrations I like to acknowledge. First, the pagan calendar celebrates the new turn of years on Samhain, aka Halloween. Then I celebrate my personal new year on my birthday in mid-November....
by Alane Freund | Oct 26, 2020
We must walk before we run. I don’t know who said that, and I think it’s universal enough that I don’t have to give a citation. This universal truth popped up into my brain while meditating today. How true it is in metaphor as well as practicality. It is the perfect...
by Alane Freund | May 31, 2020
For a few weeks I had been trying to write a blog, and it was going to be about empathy. Then at the end of May this happened:Now I sit in front of my TV weeping. I’ve been on a “news fast” to take a break from the Covid pandemic drama and trauma—my tender highly...