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…
The Dance Between Our Vocation and Our Art
Regardless of the endeavor, as Highly Sensitive people it isn’t what we do but how we do it which leaves our Art on the world around us. We are about two miles into an early morning long run when Maddie…
How Our HSP Trait Affects Our Close Relationships
I feel as though our trait of high sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) affects our close relationships as much as we are affected in general. Being able to be empathetic lets you understand how people feel. Heck, even how we (ourselves)…
Sensitivity in the Workplace: Being Kind to Yourself in Unkind Places
My first encounter with the work of Elaine Aron came in 1998 when I read her first HSP book, some 7 years since completing my PhD. Indeed the book totally resonated with me, leaving me wondering why I had chosen…
The Gifts of Vulnerability
Like many highly sensitive people, I am creative. I like to draw and sketch, and I like to make things with my hands. I’m an artist. But until recently I would have never called myself that. “Who do you think…
Why Highly Sensitives Can Feel Okay About Being Misunderstood
A few moments pass as I watch and wait as my friend looks at the picture. We’re sitting side by side and I’ve just handed them a picture I created. They’re staring at it in their hands, giving it their…
A Foreign Concept on Projection
“What do you eat?” my friend asks me in broken English, as I try to decipher his words through his strong Spanish accent. We’re walking on the boardwalk hugging the coastline somewhere in Chile. The sun is just beginning to…
House of Mirrors
projection is a strange thing the house of mirrors that allows us to ‘see’ ourselves from different angles and perspectives while trying to remember which version is the ‘real’ one? as tribal animals, we need projection we need to reflect…
Projection and the Voice of Our Beliefs
“You are such a drama queen,” my wife comments with a laugh as I hobble across the kitchen with a pained look on my face, my gait being the stiff legged aftermath of a particularly tough 7 mile hill run…
Boundaries in the 21st Century
We’ve all heard: ‘My freedom ends where yours begins’ ‘Good fences make for good neighbors’ Advice that sounds simple enough, doesn’t it? On paper, sometimes, yes More accurately, these are increasingly tenets of a bygone era The 21st century is…
A Place for Highly Sensitives
