by Alane Freund | Aug 12, 2021
What were three kind things you did for yourself in the past week? I’m working on self-compassion so I can help others as well as myself. Highly sensitive people, we need this work. Please take this letter and adapt it for yourself, or use it just as it is. In our...
by Alane Freund | Aug 9, 2021
Full disclosure: my own therapist put me on this journey to explore, embrace, and hopefully one day implement self-compassion. I’m working on it, but it ain’t easy for me. I’m good at criticism (of myself and others). I’m great at perfectionism...
by Alane Freund | Jul 30, 2021
How do we “inoculate our neural pathways” to hang on to the good stuff we learned and experienced during the pandemic? Many people in the world are still immersed in “pandemic conditions” while some are moving through and out. Where are you right now? (My writing...
by Alane Freund | May 31, 2021
This was the prompt at a writing workshop I attended. Here is where it took me…down a long meandering path. I hope you might see yourself and your family in these stories and know you are not alone. My house is small by US middle-class standards, but we live in...
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 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...
