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Tag Archives: Highly Sensitive Person
An HSP’s Absolute Need for Hiatus
The holidays are always a super-busy, super-stimulating time for me. So much is going on. My spouse is a regional officer for a national volunteer organization and attends many local chapter meetings. During the holidays, when these groups have their … Continue reading
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Tagged down time, Finding Your Truth, Hiatus, Highly Sensitive Person, HSP, rejuvenate, relaxation, renew, Self-care, sensitivity, take a break
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Making the Most of Your Active HSP Mind
One of the causes of an HSP’s overstimulation is their overactive mind. Our minds are always working. We obsess over details. We make connections between minutiae that others can’t see. We are innovative and creative. Our minds never stop their … Continue reading
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Tagged brain, Depth of Processing, Highly Sensitive Person, HSP, HSP careers, Mind, personal growth, potentiality, social responsibility, workplace
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How to Maximize Your Personal Power for Self-Protection – Part 1
In my memoir, I tell of an incident early in my life, many, many years before Dr. Aron began her work to identify and classify the personality style known as highly sensitive. The characters in this incident were myself, another … Continue reading
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Tagged awareness, guard, Highly Sensitive Person, HSP, power, Protect Yourself, protection, resistance, self-defense, sensitivity, Strength, wisdom
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How to Explain Your HSP Need for Alone Time to Others
When I first entered into a relationship with the man that would become my husband, I told him that there was something he needed to know about me. I needed time alone. It had nothing to do with him, or … Continue reading
Mastering Give-and-Take, an Essential HSP Skill, Part 1
On June 14, I spent the late evening and part of the night huddled in the basement under the staircase, as a tornado touched down in the countryside two miles from our small town. In the morning, when we assessed … Continue reading
Dealing with Toxic Family Members, An HSP Essential Guide
It’s a fact of life that there are toxic people out there. I detailed some of the toxic people I’ve run across in my memoir, Mere Sense. But there are far more people I’ve come in contact with over my … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Emotions, HSP Journey, Knowledge, Self-care
Tagged awareness, boundaries, emotions, Empathy, Finding Your Truth, grey rock, Highly Sensitive Person, HSP, intuition, Toxic people
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Applying the Superpower of “The Mere Sense of Living” Available to HSPs Only
For too long, highly sensitive people have taken the term “too sensitive” as an insult. No one can really blame us for that, as it has been used as a form of abuse for much too long a time. This … Continue reading
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Tagged altruism, authenticity, conscientiousness, Finding Your Truth, giving back, Highly Sensitive Person, HSP
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An HSP’s Absolute Necessity to Connect Emotionally
We, as HSPs, need solitude. We thrive in solitude. There is research-backed evidence that shows that solitude is essential to an HSPs wellbeing in the areas of emotion, cognition, spirituality, and social/relational life. Seclusion is great most of the time, … Continue reading
Using Your HSP Empathy for Spiritual Growth
It is a common misconception that psychopaths have no empathy. Depending upon the way you define the word “empathy,” this is far from the truth. These troubled individuals often have and make full use of what is known as cognitive … Continue reading