It’s My Birthday and I’ll Do What I Want To

It’s My Birthday and I’ll Do What I Want To

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,...
How Dads Make the Difference

How Dads Make the Difference

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....
HSP How To: A Perfect Day in the Life

HSP How To: A Perfect Day in the Life

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...
Don’t Be Cruel to a Heart that’s True

Don’t Be Cruel to a Heart that’s True

Recently, I met a young highly sensitive woman who lives near me. She attended an online weekend workshop that I led with Elaine Aron during the pandemic. There were times during the workshop when we had the chat open on Zoom, and we saw that some participants could...

HSP Hands On Practice for Personal Growth

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...

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