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Am I responsible for how someone else feels?
Emotional Health, Sensitivity“You made me feel this way!” I’m sure you’ve heard that before. Or perhaps you were even the one claiming it. During heated arguments, it’s easy to want to blame someone else for how we’re feeling. The problem is, it’s simply not tru...
Self-Care: The need for and the problem with it
SensitivityI’m sure you’ve heard of the concept of self-care, especially as it pertains to highly sensitive people. The advice of a warm bubble bath and an extrasquare of chocolate in order to soothe oneself has become ever popular in recent ye...
What are emotional triggers?
Emotional Health, SensitivityWhat does “being triggered” even mean? It’s a popular phrase used in recent times, so let’s break it down. Basically,being triggered is used to refer to when you’ve reached an uncomfortable emotional state coupled with a nervous ...
Emotions can affect the nervous system: How to deal
Emotional Health, SensitivityIf you’ve read my blog before, you’ll know that emotions happen in the body, not in the mind. Yes, it’s true that we concoct all kinds of stories around our emotions that might make us think our emotions are psychological, but the truth ...
Your fear of disappointing others has you always seeking approval: Why you do it and how to stop
SensitivityThe world feels harsh to us highly sensitive people. We do what we can to avoid feeling pain because it’s such a difficult sensation. We absolutely hate disapproval, criticism, and disappointing others. So much so that we will do a bit o...
Yes, you feel other people’s emotions
Emotional Health, SensitivityMost of this post is an excerpt from my book, “Embracing High Sensitivity.” As someone with a highly sensitive nervous system, you feel emotions more strongly than others. Just like any other physical stimuli, you feel emotional energy m...
You are not the problem. The system is the problem.
SensitivityDear highly sensitive person (HSP), The advice you’ve been getting sucks. The advice for HSPs reads like a self-help column for people with a pathology, affliction, or mental illness (not that there’s anything wrong with having one o...
Building Boundaries
SensitivityMost of this post is an excerpt from my book: “Embracing High Sensitivity: Your HSP Guidebook to Eliminating Overwhelm, Handling Difficult Emotions, and Becoming the Boss of Your Life.“ If you’re a highly sensitive person, chances are yo...
An Intuitive Lifestyle is Possible
SensitivityI asked her point blank – “Do you think I could ever do intuitive readings like you?” She laughed, my intuitive friend, and she had this laugh like silver bells. “Of course you can – you just have to learn how.” When I was about 20, I re...
Guest Post: How Massage Therapy Can Help Highly Sensitive People
Physical HealthBy Dr. Brent Wells, D.C. It can be difficult to be a sensitive person: someone who responds to the world with strength, understanding and healing. In society today, sensitive people are pushed aside as too weak. Of course, nothing could ...
How I bless my home
Spiritual HealthI don’t like cleaning. At least, not as much as my mother and sister do. I wish I was one of those people who cleaned with they were stressed. Who, after a long day of toddler tantrums and client loads, pick up a scrub brush and a bottle...
The things I did to be liked
Emotional Health, SensitivityI have a really deep wound. Some would call it a sister wound, in that it was inflicted when I was very young by someone I believed to be a female ally. And while I knew it was affecting me, I’ve just recently been shown just how this u...
Each week on the podcast, I explore different aspects of living a soulful, sensitive life. I’ll bring you stories of other sensitive, creative pioneers as well as my own thoughts, teachings and tools. This is not the beginner’s guide to sensitivity, but rather the place for sensitive souls to gather up their courage and pioneer their way into a life of personal freedom and spiritual sovereignty.
Your sensitivity is sacred – are you ready to live that way?