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		<title>4 Strategies to Avoid Holiday Overwhelm as a Highly Sensitive Person</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lori Cangilla]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 03:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Are you wondering how to avoid holiday overwhelm as a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)? As a young woman who didn’t fully understand what it meant to be an HSP, my way of coping was to embrace my inner grinch. It’s going to be so stressful, I would think, so much commotion, so many demands, so many disappointments.]]></description>
		
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		<title>10 Tips for Transforming Overthinking as a Highly Sensitive Person</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lori Cangilla]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 22:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Is it hard to shut your mind off and stop thinking? You are not alone. One of the defining characteristics of being a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) is deep processing. It can leave us stuck in analysis paralysis, without reaching a conclusion or beginning to act. That's why I've written these 10 tips for transforming overthinking as a Highly Sensitive Person. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>My Sensitivity Wasn&#8217;t Accepted by My Family: How I Survived</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lori Cangilla]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2025 03:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[No one had a name for high sensitivity when I was a child or adolescent. I was just an odd kid, the one who was always moody, who made a big deal and overthought things, who cried too easily, especially when a person or an animal was suffering. My peers mostly looked away when I was “having a moment.” My parents told me to suck it up (literally!) and wondered when I’d outgrow these behaviors that embarrassed and annoyed them. It was clear--my sensitivity wasn't accepted by my family.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why Am I So Sensitive? (3 Theories)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lori Cangilla]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2025 01:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Maybe it happens when you’re feeling buried in overwhelming emotions. Or after a sleepless night when your mind won’t stop. Or when you can literally feel the pain of someone you love, to the point that you’re suffering, too. And you ask yourself, why am I so sensitive?]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Maintaining Solid Boundaries Through Challenging Holiday Situations</title>
		<link>https://hspjourney.com/maintaining-solid-boundaries-through-challenging-holiday-situations/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lori Cangilla]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2024 03:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The end of the year holidays, both secular and religious, are rapidly approaching. With them come the weight of expectations, hopes, and fantasies about what the holidays can and should be. Whatever and however you celebrate, if you’re a highly sensitive person (HSP), you’ve probably noticed that the holidays have a way of stirring up the nervous system. If I could wave a wand and take all the stress, pain, and angst of the holidays away, you’d see me swinging my arms like a professional athlete. But unfortunately, that isn’t the kind of magic the holidays hold. So short of that, I recommend that each of us work on maintaining solid boundaries to help us get through the challenges of the holiday season.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Self-Acceptance and Change for the Highly Sensitive Person</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lori Cangilla]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 03:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I suspect that there is no one alive who wouldn’t prefer to feel more accepting of themselves. After all, there’s nothing pleasant about being harsh and critical of ourselves. We get enough of that from the world around us. Yet, at the same time as we’d like to be more self-accepting, most of us would be happiest if we could change all the things we dislike about ourselves. HSPs are no exception to getting pulled into a tug of war between self-acceptance and change.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Coping with Overwhelming Grief as a Highly Sensitive Person</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lori Cangilla]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2024 20:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As a highly sensitive person (HSP) who works with HSP clients, I think it’s particularly important to acknowledge what role grief plays in our lives and find ways to manage its intensity so that we can eventually learn from it. Coping with overwhelming grief as a highly sensitive person is no easy task.]]></description>
		
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		<title>HSP Fear of Failure Amidst Life&#8217;s Important Events</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lori Cangilla]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2024 02:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of the most significant obstacles for highly sensitive people (HSPs) to overcome in the face of life’s big challenges is our HSP fear of failure. Our sensitivity makes it very easy to tune into and very hard to avoid being overwhelmed by the thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations we associate with failing.]]></description>
		
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		<title>10 Options to Enhance Resilience While Navigating Life’s Challenges</title>
		<link>https://hspjourney.com/10-options-to-enhance-resilience-while-navigating-lifes-challenges/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lori Cangilla]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2024 04:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In graduate school, I learned through personal experience how resilience in the face of challenge is something that can be learned and developed through the process of navigating life's challenges head-on. The American Psychological Association defines resilience as “the process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences, especially through mental, emotional, and behavioral flexibility and adjustment to external and internal demands.” Many highly sensitive people can learn to successfully navigate life's challenges by enhancing their resilience.]]></description>
		
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		<title>3 Surprising HSP Benefits of Connecting with Nature</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lori Cangilla]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2024 03:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Small or large, salty or fresh, waves connect me to nature. And like most highly sensitive people (HSPs), being connected to nature is very good for my body, mind, and spirit. You might be interested in these three surprising HSP benefits of connecting with nature. I hope they encourage you to take regular time to connect with nature. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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