by Alane Freund | Jan 25, 2021
On Martin Luther King Day, January 18th, I recorded a webinar in my Are You Highly Sensitive LIVE membership called Parenting Sensitive Youth: Breath as a Tool for Parents and Kids. Since then, I have found myself breathing more easily at times, yet holding my breath...
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 | Dec 3, 2020
People who regularly practice gratitude by taking time to notice and reflect upon the things they’re thankful for experience more positive emotions, feel more alive, sleep better, express more compassion and kindness, and even have stronger immune systems. (The...
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, MS, MA | Aug 19, 2020
I recently taught a continuing education seminar for mental health professionals with Leading Edge Seminars. This seminar is taught with mental health professionals in mind, but it is also great for other health and educational professionals, or even for HSPs...
by Alane Freund, MS, MA | Jun 23, 2020
I was recently a guest on the Tilt Parenting Podcast:If your child seems to be “extra” impacted by things—whether it’s light, noise, pain, or even other people’s emotions—he or she might be highly sensitive. High sensitivity is a genetic trait that affects up to 20%...
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...
by Alane Freund | May 5, 2020
I was recently a guest on the Unapologetically Sensitive Podcast.During times of stress, the Highly Sensitive Person can fare better than the other 80% when we cultivate environments that help us flourish, as well as being mindful about what we consume....
by Alane Freund, MS, MA | Feb 29, 2020
Alane Freund’s live Q&A webinars for Highly Sensitive People and Parents Who Are Sensitive and/or Raising Highly Sensitive Children. Join our membership to post your questions and get recordings of every call. Or attend live at 11am PST.March 6: HSP FIVE to...
by Alane Freund, MS, MA | Feb 4, 2020
I don’t know about you, but I am still recuperating from the winter holiday flurry. While there aren’t snow flurries where I live, I have mental flurries throughout “the season”. And, by the way, I consider the holiday season to be from Halloween (still feeling guilty...
