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Category Archives: HSP Journey
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
Compassionate Response Needs a Fourth H to be Valid
When people are going through difficult or challenging circumstances, they need comfort from others. That comfort helps them deal with the overwhelming emotions that bombard them. People in these circumstances naturally turn to HSPs for solace. They may not be … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, HSP Journey, Providing Support
Tagged authenticity, awareness, comfort, compassion, Empathy, heard, Help, Highly Sensitive Person, HSP, hug, humbleness, humility, kindness, support
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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
Posted in HSP Journey
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
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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Poisonous Friendships vs. Valuable Friendships; An HSP Dilemma
I submit today’s post in honor of Galentine’s Day (February 13, the day before Valentine’s Day), where we offer support and thanks for our wonderful female friends. I intend to celebrate this day to the fullest because I do have … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, HSP Journey
Tagged female friends, Friendship, Galentine’s Day, Highly Sensitive Person, HSP, women, women friends
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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
Posted in Advice, HSP Journey, Self-care
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
Posted in Advice, HSP Journey, Knowledge
Tagged brain, Depth of Processing, Highly Sensitive Person, HSP, HSP careers, Mind, personal growth, potentiality, social responsibility, workplace
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