by Alane Freund | Nov 15, 2024
It’s My Party (Lesley Gore, 1963), or for the younger crowd, Melanie sampled It’s My Party and made Pity Party in 2015. It’s the quintessential HSP birthday song. It’s My Party came out the year before I was born, but my highly sensitive parents, both born in 1940,...
by Alane Freund | Jun 19, 2024
Dads do make the difference in the life of a sensitive child. Do you remember your father? Was he set on toughening you up? Maybe he was a little harsh, but he wanted you to be safe in the world. Some dads weren’t around much, leaving most of the parenting to moms....
by Alane Freund | Jun 6, 2024
It’s not a fantasy, but it’s most highly sensitive people’s dream to live that perfect day. One of the HSP 5 to Thrive is “Design a life compatible with your trait.” You must do this in order to thrive in life, but how?Many of you have found those moments, sometimes...
by Alane Freund | Jul 3, 2023
I know what to do to take care of my sensitive self, and so do you. But, in the moment… We forget, or We freeze, or We flee… I hear this from HSPs all the time, and I have to admit, it makes sense. When it’s hard it’s hard, and yet preparation and...
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....
