An HSP on Planet Earth
The edge has always been the most comfortable place for me to be. The edge of room, the edge of herd, the edge of my mind, the edge where the earth meets the sea. They describe us HSP’s like birds…
Tunneling Toward the Light
In Praise of a Difficult Mental Health Day. In one way or another, each of us is seeking the light at the end of the tunnel yet completely ignoring and dismissing the actual role of said dark tunnel. Most people…
Our HSP Trait & Close Relationships
An HSP can become an emotional martyr and unknowingly participate in building the bedrock for addiction to suffering. Alternative descriptors that I’ve used to describe the HSP trait is: wide spectrum or large bandwidth. As highly sensitive people we take in…
Whole Living As An HSP
On my forearm arm rests a recently hand-poked tattoo. A mishmash of circles that could appear disjointed when in fact they are based on a very specific and universal formula: the Fibonacci sequence. The Fibonacci sequence is one of the most famous formulas in…
The Friction Point in Productivity
If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you. – Gospel of Thomas This quote…
House of Mirrors
projection is a strange thing the house of mirrors that allows us to ‘see’ ourselves from different angles and perspectives while trying to remember which version is the ‘real’ one? as tribal animals, we need projection we need to reflect…
Boundaries in the 21st Century
We’ve all heard: ‘My freedom ends where yours begins’ ‘Good fences make for good neighbors’ Advice that sounds simple enough, doesn’t it? On paper, sometimes, yes More accurately, these are increasingly tenets of a bygone era The 21st century is…
Energy Accounting and Our Relationships
f&ck yes, or no thank you – the litmus test for ALL relationships clutter, not a word necessarily associated with the people in our lives but maybe it should be clutter (for me) is anything that takes up more space…