by Alane Freund | Mar 15, 2023
Is worry helping or hurting your sensitive family? Highly sensitive children and teens know all about worrying. It comes with deeply processing and subtlety noticing – hallmarks of a highly sensitive brain. We sensitive ones were designed to think. But where is the...
by Alane Freund | Feb 24, 2023
What is well-being for a highly sensitive person? It means optimal level of arousal – that wonderful state where we are most fully ourselves, at ease, and living into our gifts as HSPs. It means not being overwhelmed, overstimulated, or over-aroused. It means much...
by Alane Freund | Feb 16, 2023
Incredible joy and deep challenges. I didn’t choose a complicated, intense, amazing kid. The world chose me for him and it was right. UNIQUE is the word of the day. Every highly sensitive person and youth is unique. There are as many ways to be sensitive as...
by Alane Freund | Feb 14, 2023
Making Relationships Work Even When a Cave Sounds Good February is LOVE month. HSPs and Love, in particular. These two things go together well, and also sometimes it’s not so smooth. This blog has FIVE pieces of curated (for HSPs) relationship wisdom plus a...
by Alane Freund | Dec 26, 2022
Core Elements to an Ideal HSY Vacation What makes an ideal vacation for sensitive youth? Sure, it’s important to weave in some family rituals. But maybe the best vacation is about no pressure. Freedom + Time = Ingenuity This photo, Winter 1978: Alane and Skoshi,...
by Alane Freund | Dec 13, 2022
You think you got stress? The day after Thanksgiving, searching for a lost Apple pencil in my parents’ couch, we uncovered a nest of Fiddleback Spiders (aka Brown Recluse). Yep, poisonous spiders, and one literally crawled over my 21 year-old son’s bare foot....
