Are You Highly Sensitive Blog
The Four D’s for Navigating Fear
Fear looms large in the lives of many highly sensitive people, young and old. It turns out we can slide into fear because of deep processing, you know, thinking A LOT. Fear has its roots in your brain. In fact… We aren’t actually afraid most of the time....
Three Tools for a Life Redesign
Through the past three decades, my friend, Elaine Aron, has taught us that people with finely tuned nervous systems and brains, like ours, need only five simple things to thrive in this world. I call them The HSP Five to Thrive. You know my mantra about this: It’s...
Did You Grow Up Feeling Wrong?
Did You Grow Up Feeling Wrong? Are you highly sensitive? I bet you are, and I imagine you have known it forever. I grew up hearing repeatedly that I was too (damn) sensitive. In fact, I can’t remember a time when I didn’t think there was something wrong...
Advantages to Being Highly Sensitive
What Do HSPs Appreciate about Being Highly Sensitive? As we kick off the HSP Life Re-Design course with The Shift Network, students are re-writing the story of their lives as highly sensitive people. Part of the re-writing and re-design comes from a focus on the...
M is for Meditation
Are HSPs Different in Our Susceptibility to Meditation? Darn tootin’. That’s southern cowpoke lingo for “Sure thing.” Not only are we more susceptible to meditation, but also it looks really different for us when we do meditate. Here at the end of August 2022, I...
Will the parents make it to summer break?
I’ve been talking to lots of families this month, and we’re all getting out of denial about how soon the school year will end. Maybe you have a preschooler, and they get to just keep going all summer, but most of the kids need other plans. If you...
Busy HSP, Are You Thriving at Work and in Life?
Living with high sensitivity at work, parties, family events, aka places where we have to advocate for ourselves and practice radical self care before, during, and after requires us to be ON…maybe more than we feel we can manage most days. You can do everything you...
Highly Sensitive Sanctuary and Spirituality
My highly sensitive community, we need both sanctuary and spirituality in order to live our best lives, especially when the world is in chaos. And…as I try to imagine how long the world has been this way, I have decided I think it has been utter chaos out there for as...
