3 Main Influences That Affect Highly Sensitives (And How To Deal With Them)
With a critical eye, I examine it… The bird looks a bit distorted. The watercolors look good in some places but could be better in others. I got the right mix of water, color, and brush strokes in some areas.…
8 Ways Highly Sensitives Can Get A Handle On Their Big Emotions
It’s five in the afternoon, and after a busy day of meetings and appointments, I’m standing in line at a noisy supermarket, picking up some items for dinner. My stomach is rumbling. A heavily perfumed woman steps in front of…
8 Holiday Hacks for Highly Sensitives
Holidays are a time for creating beautiful memories. But for Highly Sensitives, holidays can sometimes be challenging. Not just because 70% of HSPs are introverts and holidays are a time for celebrating and socializing. But even for the 30% of…
How Highly Sensitive People Can Avoid Feeling Overwhelmed
As HSPs we have a finely tuned nervous system and the stimuli we receive daily can be overwhelming. But it’s not just the amount of stimuli my senses pick up, it’s the depth of processing aspect of my trait that…
Why, as an HSP, I Don’t Relate to the Word “Empath”
When I first found out I had the HSP Trait I was so relieved. I couldn’t believe how everything just fell into place. So much made sense to me now. Why I dreamed the way I did, why I could smell scents…
Are Psychiatrists Crazy?
“You look great! You look good!” I’m new to finding a Therapist and I’m sitting across from a Psychiatrist I haven’t met before. I’ve just related what therapies I’ve been researching that I think would be helpful. Her response is…
An HSP on What Strength Means
It feels like a splintered wooden skewer is winding its way up, slowly and methodically piercing through my intestines as it insinuates its way toward my throat. I’d been gazing out the bus window lost in reverie but have been…
HSPs and the Question of Family
It’s no secret the concept of “family” continues to evolve. Childless couples are adopting children (which isn’t new), gay couples are adopting children, single people are having a child and some people are choosing not to have children. But where…
Vantage Sensitivity: A Compass for HSPs
I found out I had the HSP Trait about 3 years ago now and learning I had it was like finding a long lost treasure. Like finding the last puzzle piece to a 500,000 piece puzzle that I’d been working…
A Magical Elixir for an HSP
Noisy people. Noisy places. Clutter. Messy minds. My messy mind. In a mostly extroverted, non-HSP world these are the things I try to mitigate on a moment-to-moment basis and it used to be easy for me to fall into the…