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Finding a Therapist Who Understands the Highly Sensitive Person Trait
Finding a therapist who understands the Highly Sensitive Person trait is possibly one of the best ways to impact your therapy goals. Once you've started learning about the Highly Sensitive Person trait as researched and documented by Dr. Elaine N. Aron in her book, The Highly Sensitive Person, it might become important to you to find a therapist or life coach who is an HSP or understands the Highly Sensitive Person trait. Many therapists, coaches, and people in the healing and helping professions are highly sensitive, which is very helpful for HSPs who are seeking support. We who are sensitive can support others who are sensitive because we understand the ups and downs that go with the territory. Overall, finding a therapist who understands the Highly Sensitive Person trait can be vital to reaching your goals for therapy.... Read More
3 Valuable Workbooks for the Highly Sensitive Person
Highly Sensitive People, or HSPs, comprise 15-20% of the population, according to the researcher, Dr. Elaine N. Aron. As highly sensitives, we often wrestle with overprocessing, overthinking, and overstimulation because of the additional mirror neurons in our brains that cause us to notice more stimuli, feel things more deeply, and react differently to the world around us. There are many great qualities of the HSP and perhaps my favorite is our ability to process the world around us deeply. For this reason, keeping a journal or using a workbook created specifically for Highly Sensitive People can be extremely helpful. Workbooks for the Highly Sensitive Person can help shed light on the trait in positive ways and help find health self-acceptance and joy... Read More
3 Habits to Becoming Your Best Highly Sensitive Self at Work
If you are one of the 15-20% of the population who has the highly sensitive trait, you know how challenging everyday situations can be — with environments and also with people. While no one can control every situation, there are things Highly Sensitive People (HSP) can do at their workplace to minimize environmental stimulation and emotional energy overload. ... Read More
Do Some Children Outgrow Being Highly Sensitive?
You may have been a sensitive child yourself, or you have come across this article while searching online to learn how to better parent your own highly sensitive child, either way, people often wonder, do some children outgrow being highly sensitive?... Read More
The Wild Sensitive Book Helps HSPs Expand Self-Awareness
The word "wild" connotates extreme adventure, taking risks, and putting yourself in challenging positions all for the sake of experience, right? In Randy Grasser and Annet Van Duinen's first book together, The Wild Sensitive: Unlocking the Power of the Highly Sensitive Sensation Seekers. they educate around the highly sensitive person (HSP) trait when it overlaps with the high sensation seeker (HSS) trait, producing what could only be known as the highly sensitive sensation seeker--a modern marvel we are only just beginning to understand.... Read More
What’s the Difference Between a Highly Sensitive Person and an Empath?
When I started researching sensitivity, I wasn't sure what the differences were between the term "empath" and the term "highly sensitive person (HSP)." It seemed to me that they could mostly be used interchangeably, yet there were some subtle differences between the terms even though the difference between a Highly Sensitive Person and an empath can be nuanced.... Read More
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