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 Kids
HSP kids is a category that includes articles on the HSP experience as a child.
10 Books About Parenting Highly Sensitive Children
Books help us uncover knowledge and often are the most helpful way to learn about the trait of the Highly Sensitive Person. Parenting Highly Sensitive children is hard and books can offer insight, help, and advice on best practices to work into our parenting arsenal. Highly Sensitive Children (HSC) often require more attention, more guidance, and more help as they navigate the world filled with stimulation.Each of these nine books offers insight and help in the parenting of highly sensitive kids:... Read More
My Sensitivity Wasn’t Accepted by My Family: How I Survived
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.... Read More
4 Steps and 4 Tips for Raising Sensitive Boys Well
Growing up with unsupportive or non-sensitive parents can be highly challenging for sensitive boys and girls. Rarely does a highly sensitive person escape childhood without incurring a few emotional wounds.... Read More
8 Clues You Were a Highly Sensitive Child
If you were to look back on yourself as a child as though you were a detective, what would you notice? Would you have seen the way you felt misunderstood? Would you have sensed the hole deep inside where you wished you were understood? Many of us did not have the language to describe or the education around the Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) trait to notice our sensitivity.... Read More
5 Things You Probably Didn’t Get as a Highly Sensitive Child
Looking back at your childhood without knowing you were a Highly Sensitive Child (HSC), you probably didn't get exactly what you needed from your parents, your teachers, or your friends. Dr. Elaine Aron's book, The Highly Sensitive Child, released in 2002, nearly 20 years ago, and is the defacto manual for better understanding the segment of kids.... Read More