Maybe you've watched them retreat to their room after a family gathering, or come home from work drained after navigating office dynamics all day and overwhelmed by the noise or energy. Maybe you've seen their shoulders tense and face crumple when someone uses the wrong pronoun, or noticed how deeply they feel every sideways glance. If someone you love is both highly sensitive and LGBTQ+, you know their world can feel both incredibly rich and sometimes painfully intense.... Read More
HSP Journey
HSP Journey is a place for you to share your stories, discuss common traits within those who consider themselves highly sensitive, and be sensitive and be free.
Experiencing Midlife as a Highly Sensitive Person
Gradually, I’m becoming more comfortable with myself in midlife as a Highly Sensitive Person. As with most periods of change, it’s hard to tell when the switch to the next phase is complete.... Read More
6 Surprising Truths About Being a Hypersensitive Person
Have you ever been told you’re “too sensitive” or asked why you react so strongly to everyday events? It’s common for people to mistake a highly sensitive or hypersensitive nature for a flaw or weakness, but this trait is much more complex than people realize. Being a hypersensitive person means you process emotions, environments, and social cues more deeply and intensely than most, and it is called the highly sensitive person trait (HSP)--a personality trait and not a flaw or disorder.... Read More
The Difficult Journey to Highly Sensitive (HSP) Discovery
Many of us have had a difficult journey on the path to understanding ourselves as highly sensitive people. We may have been misunderstood as children, and perhaps even as sensitive adults. We might have been bullied. We might have felt shame in how others treated us in regards to our sensitivities. Whatever the case, the difficult journey to Highly Sensitive (HSP) discovery is often a bumpy one.... Read More
Serene Summer Sleep for the Sensitive Soul
As the heat turns up and the days stretch on, summer brings its own brand of excitement—bright sunshine, busy social gatherings, and a seemingly endless list of possibilities. Yet for us as Highly Sensitive People, that intensity can feel overwhelming, especially when it comes to sleep. Longer days can tempt us to pack more into our schedules, making it tough to wind down when night finally arrives. Summer sleep for the sensitive soul turns out to be harder to come by. ... Read More
7 Tips to Compartmentalize for Increased Creativity in Your Career
We highly sensitive folks tend to have a tougher time compartmentalizing in healthy ways in order to access our creativity. A huge fan of The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron, she shares in her book how articles over carpet over their creativity through vices--work, alcohol, food, and the like. While using things like substances is not a healthy way to cope, sometimes there are healthy ways to leverage your life in order to put things in their place--and succeed at being the creative soul you want to be. Hence, I give you seven tips to compartmentalize for increased creativity in your career. These are especially helpful tips for HSPs... Read More