David Wilson
David is a Highly Sensitive Person, High Sensation Seeker and INFJ. He is an integrative therapist and HSP mentor to parents of highly sensitive children. He lives in Stroud, UK, and in his spare time he reads, writes, cooks, cycles, and enjoys music and time with his family.
5 Ways Highly Sensitives Can Overcome Information Overload
Ever felt like throwing your cell phone when a notification pings and interrupts what you’re doing? Information is constantly coming at us and can add to feelings of anxiety. Being easily overstimulated is part of the package for HSPs, and…
6 Solutions Highly Sensitives Can Use For Overthinking
Overthinking is defined as spending more time thinking about something than is necessary or productive. As an HSP, we tend to overthink, and this is also one aspect of the HSP Trait others might find difficult to relate to. And…
Highly Sensitives and Not Having Close Family Relationships
In an ideal world, a child grows up in a loving family environment, nurtured, and grows a healthy sense of self-esteem. They are loved unconditionally just for being, and the parenting is “good enough.” These children learn their feelings and…
6 Ways Highly Sensitives Can Avoid Overstimulation
“I feel like I’m going to scream!” “I feel exhausted.” As a Highly Sensitive, these are some of the things you might have felt or said in the past. Overstimulation is when the input is too much for you to…
How Can Highly Sensitives Deal with Social Media?
Notifications. Alerts. Pop-Ups. Social media has changed the way we communicate, how we relate to others, to ourselves, to the inner part of ourselves, and to get our daily news fix. It starts as a spare time activity but then…
How Highly Sensitive People Can Overcome Feeling Misunderstood
There may be times when you may feel others don’t understand you fully, or perhaps at all. Being misunderstood may relate to a certain situation and what you say or how you act; when how it’s meant and subsequently received…
Do Highly Sensitive People Have Good Intuition?
“Tell me tonight’s lottery numbers!” I jokingly ask my partner this when she talks in advance of something that happens later on, or later we discover it’s already happened. Her intuition is strong and rarely fails. She never can tell…
Life Before and After Learning I Have the HSP Trait
Unlike the other books, this particular book cover was facing outwards. Maybe it was serendipity. We were in an alternative bookshop in Totnes, Devon, UK, when my partner chanced upon Dr. Elaine Aron’s, “the Highly Sensitive Child, Helping Our Children…
