What Does Retreat Mean for HSPs? Preventing Burnout and Learning to Thrive with an Optimal Level of Arousal

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...

Solopreneur or System Changemaker?

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...

Shehecheyanu 2021

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....

HSPs Walking for Self Care

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...

Identifying, Treating, and Understanding Highly Sensitive People

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...

Parenting High Sensitivity: Raising Kids with Finely Tuned Nervous Systems

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%...

Can YOU Breathe?

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...

Flourishing As A Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) During Times of Stress

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....

2020 EVENTS

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...

Alane’s take on HSPs, Holidays, Love, and HARD THINGS™

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...