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Tag Archives: awareness
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
Posted in Advice, Call to Action, HSP Journey, Knowledge, Self-care
Tagged awareness, guard, Highly Sensitive Person, HSP, power, Protect Yourself, protection, resistance, self-defense, sensitivity, Strength, wisdom
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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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Signs of Peril, Recognizing and Averting Psychopathic Danger
As a highly sensitive person, you are a target. Energy vampires are all around us, and they love to target highly sensitive people. Psychopaths are one of those dangerous people. We are deeply empathic. That means that we tend to … Continue reading
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Tagged awareness, energy vampires, Highly Sensitive Person, HSP, intuition, Psychopathy, Self-care
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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
Posted in Advice, Emotions, Self-care
Tagged Anger, awareness, emotions, Frustration, Highly Sensitive Person, HSP, Self-care, stress
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Five Steps to Finding and Keeping Your Purpose
HSPs have a strong desire for meaningful purpose. Along with conscientiousness, spirituality, and depth of processing, must find an outlet for deeply held aims. Continue reading
Posted in Advice, HSP Journey, Knowledge, Self-care
Tagged awareness, DOES, Finding Purpose, Highly Sensitive Person, HSP, Meaning
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Using Your Peacemaker’s Understanding – A Sought After HSP Trait
If you’ve begun to learn about your highly sensitive nature, and especially if you have delved into that learning for some time, you are intimately familiar with the failings and rewards of being an HSP. You are probably also aware … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Call to Action, Knowledge
Tagged awareness, conscientiousness, Empathy, EQ, Highly Sensitive Person, HSP, human behavior, interpersonal relationships, Peacemaker
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Three Ways to Manage Sensory Overload for the HSP
One of the thrilling parts of being an HSP is the amount and intensity of emotional and bodily sensation we experience. From moment-to-moment we are on a never-ending roller coaster of heightened feeling. Whether it’s a strong emotional surge throughout … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Self-care
Tagged awareness, Depth of Processing, Highly Sensitive Person, HSP, in the moment, Self-care, Sensory Overload
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The Myth of Flawless Love and the HSP Woman
Approximately 51 million Americans read romance novels. That number increases daily. The allures of the romance novel are many. We, as a society, are in love with love. Often the heroine early in the novel meets a rogue male who … Continue reading
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Tagged awareness, conscientious, Empathy, Highly Sensitive Person, HSP, idealism, love, romance, sensitivity
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