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Tag Archives: Finding Your Truth
For Good HSP Self-care, Know and Understand These Differences in Body Chemicals
Since her book, Molecules of Emotion, came out, I have been a fan of the late Dr. Candace Pert. She and her research have been instrumental in legitimizing the new science of mind-body connection. Our minds are intricately connected to … Continue reading
A Look at HSP Options to Combat Noise Pollution
As a highly sensitive person, certain noises, especially irritating personal habits (someone chomping on ice, popping gum, or making sucking noises with their mouth) drive me through the roof. Those kinds of noises overstimulate my nervous system, and make me … Continue reading
When HSP Radar Tells You Something You Don’t Want to Know
Reading Time: < 4.5 minutes In our family there is one person who has been the focus for many years of both the family and the compassionate community at large. This person is determined to follow a self-destructive path. Insidious … Continue reading
Empathy – Don’t Abuse It or You’ll Lose It
I’m an imposter. Lately, I’ve wondered if I really am who I say I am. Forty years ago, I discovered that I was a sensitive person. I’ve spent the intervening years finding out more about my sensitivity. Learning all its … Continue reading
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Tagged awareness, balance, empath, empath burnout, Empathy, empathy shutdown, Finding Your Truth, Highly Sensitive Person, HSP, sensitivity
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Seven Steps to Take Now to Limit Your Empath Agreeableness
Agreeableness is one of five personality traits the psychiatric world uses to determine personality. Differences in those five traits, memorialized in the acronym OCEAN (Openness, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism) combine to determine our personalities. Agreeableness describes a person’s ability … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Emotions, HSP Journey, Self-care
Tagged agreeable, awareness, boundaries, conscientious, empath, Empathy, Finding Your Truth, HSP, Truth
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Six Steps Toward Greater HSP Creativity
In the first two posts of this series, we looked at the HSP advantage in intuition, and how we can support and train our intuition even further. We know that a strong intuition bolsters our already strong creativity. HSPs are … Continue reading
Five Steps to Take to Fire Up Your HSP Intuition
As mentioned before, we all have access to the sixth sense. HSPs are way ahead of the game in this because our nervous systems are more attuned to subtleties. The key to developing a stronger intuition is paying attention to … Continue reading
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Tagged conscientious, Finding Your Truth, HSP, hunch, insight, instinct, intuition, Subconscious, wisdom
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Intuition and Creativity – An HSP’s Super Sense-abilities, Introduction
We’ve all experienced it, HSP and non-HSP alike. It’s that instant “knowing” in situations of all kinds that tells us what to do, what something unfamiliar means, how to respond, etc. Intuition, often called the sixth sense, is not as … Continue reading
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Tagged Finding Your Truth, gut feeling, Highly Sensitive Person, HSP, hunch, insight, inspiration, instinct, intuition, sixth sense, Truth
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Deep Thinking vs. Overthinking vs. Obsessive Thinking: An HSP Conundrum
The accusation hurts. You’re a sensitive person. You delve deeply into various subjects that come up in your life. Then, someone in your sphere of influence, with a concerned expression on their face, says to you, “You need to stop … Continue reading