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Category Archives: Emotions
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
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Tagged agreeable, awareness, boundaries, conscientious, empath, Empathy, Finding Your Truth, HSP, Truth
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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
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Tagged awareness, boundaries, emotions, Empathy, Finding Your Truth, grey rock, Highly Sensitive Person, HSP, intuition, Toxic people
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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
Navigating the Urge to Feel
In my very early adulthood, there was a popular song called “Born to Be Alive.” Its message was a very upbeat, motivating, but simple one. Enjoy being alive. Most people support that message, but have no idea what being alive … Continue reading
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Tagged emotional regulation, emotions, feelings, Finding Your Truth, Highly Sensitive Person, HSP
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Dealing with Frustration as an HSP
Putting away groceries the other day, I surprised myself. I was emptying potatoes into a bag in the pantry when the bag slipped and all the potatoes flew in every direction. I let out a grunt – a half-scream, guttural … Continue reading
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Tagged Anger, awareness, emotions, Frustration, Highly Sensitive Person, HSP, Self-care, stress
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Banishing the Echo in Your Heart, 5 Steps for Healing
Last week’s post identified the personality trait known as echoism. Echoism is on the extreme opposite side of narcissism, but both are destructive. Narcissism is destructive to those who come into relationship with a narcissist, and echoism is destruction caused … Continue reading
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Tagged Echoism, healing, Highly Sensitive Person, HSP, Low Self-esteem, Narcissists, poor boundaries, Self-effacing, Truth
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The Migraine/Sensitivity Connection
Thirty-five years ago, I discovered an interesting fact. I was confronting my increasing migraine problem head-on, determined to understand and overcome its debilitating effect on me. Keeping a headache diary, I became very aware of the circumstances that would trigger … Continue reading
Posted in Emotions, Knowledge, Self-care
Tagged emotional upheaval, emotions, headache, Highly Sensitive Person, HSP, migraine, sensitivity
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The Lovingkindness Paradox and the Highly Sensitive
For anyone who has followed my blogs, you know that I advocate an attitude of lovingkindness. I strongly believe in practicing love and kindness in a world filled with hate, greed, and a me-centered consciousness. It is a powerful tool … Continue reading
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Tagged assertiveness, Empathy, energy vampires, Finding Your Truth, Highly Sensitive Person, HSP, kindness, love, truth telling, wisdom
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An HSP’s Personal Experience with ASMR
ASMR, or Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, is a very hot topic these days for those seeking relief from the stresses and distresses of life. If you don’t know what ASMR is, read this article first. This phenomenon just recently came … Continue reading
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Tagged ASMR, Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, calm, happiness, Highly Sensitive Person, HSP, massage, pleasure, relaxation, sensation
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Mastering the Two Sides of HSP Regret
Most people experience some form of regret. Regret is a powerful emotion that infiltrates our everyday lives in destructive ways – if we allow it to. HSPs, with our enhanced empathy and depth of processing traits, can struggle even more … Continue reading
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Tagged Advice, disappointment, guilt, Highly Sensitive Person, HSP, Regret, shame, sorrow, wisdom
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