An HSP on Giving Ourselves Permission: Sensitivity and Creativity
I often buy books for my children I love, or books that I want to read but haven’t yet. A couple of years ago I bought my son “Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking” by…
Vantage Sensitivity: A Compass for HSPs
I found out I had the HSP Trait about 3 years ago now and learning I had it was like finding a long lost treasure. Like finding the last puzzle piece to a 500,000 piece puzzle that I’d been working…
An HSP on Planet Earth
The edge has always been the most comfortable place for me to be. The edge of room, the edge of herd, the edge of my mind, the edge where the earth meets the sea. They describe us HSP’s like birds…
HSPs and Sense Sensitivities
The touch sensitivity. This one is really tough to live with. You are constantly feeling things. Clothes that are itchy. Tags on clothes. Textures of food. Seams on socks. Short sleeve shirts. Those are a few of the things that…
Highly Sensitives, a Mental Health Diagnosis, Curiosity and Wholistic Healing
Is it PTSD? Or Anxiety? Or Depression? Or could the depression and anxiety be a by-product of the PTSD? These are the questions I’ve been asking myself as I’m learning more about how my HSP Trait works for me and…
Tunneling Toward the Light
In Praise of a Difficult Mental Health Day. In one way or another, each of us is seeking the light at the end of the tunnel yet completely ignoring and dismissing the actual role of said dark tunnel. Most people…
Losing Your Stomach — Highly Sensitive People and the Spiritual Path
Early summer means carnival season – homemade food served from pavilions by church folk and firemen, amusement park rides set up in fields, hucksters selling a chance to win a stuffed animal, an inflatable sword, a goldfish, or even a…
How To Create and Organize an HSP Meetup Group
So you’d like to meet other HSPs but there isn’t a local HSP Meetup Group in your area? I found myself in the same position so this is what I did. First, I found it beneficial to think of setting…
Temperature Changes and a Highly Sensitive Person
It’s cold in here. That bothers me like nothing other. I can’t function when it’s cold, a challenge this gift of sensitivity has ever so thoughtfully bestowed upon me. Everywhere I go it’s cold — the restaurant down the road,…
The Friction Point in Productivity
If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you. – Gospel of Thomas This quote…
A Place for Highly Sensitives
