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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
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
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
8 Helpful HSP Career Hacks for Navigating Your Office Environment
Many highly sensitive people (HSPs) find typical work environments overwhelming with noise, constant interruptions, and high stress making it difficult to do their best work. Learning specific HSP career hacks can help protect personal energy and create a more manageable routine at work.... Read More
French Short Film Highlights Highly Sensitive Person Trait
One of the joys of being a highly sensitive person (HSP) is in using our "superpowers" for good, to champion and highlight not only the HSP trait to raise awareness, but to share our vision and view of the world as a place filled with beauty, hope, and love. Each day, each moment, we have the opportunity to share this superpower and claim our sensitivity as a gift. In this powerful French short film, "Peau de Poulet" (translated: Chicken Skin) by Francois Boulet, he articulates through images, video, voice, script, and music a compelling case for claiming sensitivity as a superpower in just two minutes and twenty seconds--an incredible feat and gift to the world.... Read More
HSP 101: Understanding the Highly Sensitive Person Trait
means. It might sound like a put-down, or maybe something you overheard a parent say about you to someone else. Whichever way you cut it, being called sensitive has almost always been a bad thing. That is, until Dr. Elaine Aron began to study what she named, “the Highly Sensitive Person trait.”... Read More
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