The Four D’s for Navigating Fear

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

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?

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

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

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...

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