The Ingredients of Our Relationships
When I ask my wife if there is any sugar in a store brand of peanut butter she had recently bought, she replies, “What do the ingredients say?” As an HSP, by nature I’m inclined to watch the ingredients in…
Temperature Changes and a Highly Sensitive Person
It’s cold in here. That bothers me like nothing other. I can’t function when it’s cold, a challenge this gift of sensitivity has ever so thoughtfully bestowed upon me. Everywhere I go it’s cold — the restaurant down the road,…
Want to Boost your Creativity? Try a Dream Practice
Do you ever have one of those Ah-ha! moments when you listen to a podcast? I’d like to share with you one I had recently that led me to a new practice. In a recent SuperSoul conversation with Deepak Chopra,…
On Being Yourself in Competitive Workplaces: Insights from an HSP
Have you ever started out on a career journey with plans of landing at one occupation—only to find out a few years later that you really wanted to be in one that is totally different? This is a common challenge…
On Being A Sensitive Leader
I think the most difficult part about being a life coach is your ethos, your credibility. But not just that, but ethos amongst your peers and people that have known you before your change and transition, as an authority for…
How HSPs Can Use Courage and Creative Self-Expression to Invite Connection
Life’s ups and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want. – Marsha Sinetra Lately, I’ve been having a great time discussing courage,…
Our HSP Trait and 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…
What I Ask Myself When I Start a New Creative Project
I’m building a city. With art deco skyscrapers, department stores, busy streets and old-fashioned trolleys darting around, all within a 5-foot by 5-foot space. It’s part of my favorite creative project, a model railroad that I’ve been working on for…
Projection, Self-Awareness and Highly Sensitives
Utilitarian chairs, an old area rug covering a cement floor, scratched wooden coffee tables, and a beat-up leather couch. Heat and fluorescent lighting. The faint smell of gasoline. A garage. This was where I had my first experience with Projection…
Dealing With the Energy of Our Regrets
Dealing with the energy of our regrets is similar to trying to swim through a riptide. Approached head on they can exhaust us, however if we move ourselves parallel to them and then swim alongside them, their energy dissipates over…
A Place for Highly Sensitives
