Why Highly Sensitives Dream So Vividly and What We Can Do About It
For Highly Sensitives, our dreams can leave us in deep contemplation, inspired, alarmed, and/or distract us for days. But why do we dream so vividly? The answer lies in our Trait, “…Sensory Processing Sensitivity refers to a greater responsivity to…
The HSP World Podcast Ep. 11: Are People Aware There Are Highly Sensitive Extroverts?
The HSP World Podcast is available on iTunes, Google Play, Podbean, and Spotify! Thomas: Hi and welcome to the HSP World Podcast. With each episode, we invite a guest with the HSP Trait to have a conversation about a…
How Highly Sensitive People Can Avoid Feeling Lonely
Loneliness. What exactly is it and how do each of us define it? When I was much younger and didn’t know I had the HSP Trait, being alone was just an everyday, normal way of living for me, at least…
Living in LaLa Land: Inside the Imagination of an HSP
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality. – Cheshire Cat It wasn’t until adulthood that I realized how lucky I was to grow up in such an artistic and creative family. I’m now learning that not everybody…
An HSP on Discovering the HSP Trait
In the winter of 2016 something in me was triggered. I demanded within myself, answers, explanations and clarity. Something inside of me pushed me like never before. I spoke out, but from within, asking the Universe for the answers no matter…
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…
An HSP on Giving Ourselves Permission: Sensitivity and Creativity
I often buy books for my children I love, or books that I want to read but haven’t yet. A couple of years ago I bought my son “Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking” by…
Creativity and the HSP
Most, if not all, HSPs are creative. We have found it to be a great outlet for our feelings. Our emotions. Many of us create to show the depths of our soul. To express the immense emotion living inside us.…
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 Place for Highly Sensitives
