Highlights of the 2023 Sensitive Success Summit – Part 4
If you’ve been practicing the Joy of Missing Out (JOMO) and slept on the 2023 Sensitive Success Summit, an online international celebration of the HSP Trait created by Frida Kabo, you’re in good company. If you missed Week 3, here are…
When Should A Highly Sensitive Share They Have the HSP Trait?
How does a Highly Sensitive know when to share they have the HSP Trait? Who do we share it with? How do we communicate the main points of the HSP Trait? For many Highly Sensitives, these are valid concerns and…
Do Highly Sensitives Struggle More With Friendships?
Highly Sensitives can often feel lonely because they may have trouble making friends. There are four reasons HSPs may struggle more with friendships, and they include: High Expectations Weak Boundaries Overthinking Letting Go Let’s look at these more closely and…
The HSP World Podcast Ep. 9: Highly Sensitive People and Feeling Misunderstood
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…
An HSP on Having the Trait
In my personal research over the past four years I’ve come across many types of HSPs. But the one thing that comes to mind is the HSP who isn’t really fond of their sensitivity. Now, it seems the majority of…
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…
Only So Much You Can Do
Friday dinners at our house are as simple as we can make them — as simple as any dinner can be for two working parents and two growing boys who eat their weight in food. Frozen pizza from the oven,…
My Journey with Chronic Illness as an HSP
Sometimes it takes all I have just to get out of bed. That’s how it is when my illnesses are flaring. I am an HSP who suffers from chronic illness. It was a struggle that took all of my energy.…
A Highly Sensitive on Taking Pills and Pill Shaming
I’ve been mentally ill since I was a kid. I can remember it clearly. My belief is it started when I was 4 years old. My family picked up and moved to the country and we lived in tents while…
Growing Into the HSP Trait
When I was younger things were much harder for me. Like many others I didn’t have any guidance on being an HSP even though at least half of my family are HSPs. I guess that was a time when sensitivity…