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 | 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....
by Alane Freund | Nov 15, 2022
This is the quintessential HSP birthday song, isn’t it? It’s My Party (Lesley Gore 1963), or for the young crowd, Melanie sampled It’s My Party and made Pity Party in 2015. It’s My Party came out the year before I was born, but my highly sensitive parents, both born...
by Alane Freund | Nov 11, 2022
Are you living your best life? Are you happy more often than not? I know a few things that are guaranteed to help. At Are You Highly Sensitive, I talk to HSPs every single day. Often I ask them for their gratitudes. Research shows that a daily gratitude practice will...
