Waking Up Anxious: Self-Regulation Skills for the HSP
Ideally we wake up full of vim and vigor, eager to enthusiastically meet the day. That ideal may be a reach. Waking up feeling some degree of anxiety is probably closer to the norm. We'll explore this issue and see what we can do about it from a self-regulation and...
The HSP Asks, Could My Pain Be in My Brain?
The research showing that most chronic pain is generated in the brain suggests to some, if not many people, that the pain isn't real but imagined. The idea that one's suffering is imagined is insulting, yet that's not what the research is suggesting. It's been assumed...
Safety Soothes the HSP’s Brain
One of the biggest challenges of being a highly sensitive person is the nervous system's reaction, or potential overreaction to threat, real or imagined. Threat throws the autonomic nervous system (ANS) into a protective mode, where we're driven to run, fight, freeze,...
Reframing Anxiety as Subtle Energy for the HSP
Anxiety is an experience that is resisted by most everyone. It makes perfect sense that we'd resist what's uncomfortable emotionally, just like we tend to resist the experience of physical pain. The other side of the anxiety coin is that what we resist, or judge,...
Sensing the Quantum Body for HSPs
As a highly sensitive person, you have the capacity to experience yourself and your body as part of the quantum universe, connected to new possibilities for healing and wholeness. Like me, you likely don't know the math needed to appreciate the quantum universe, but...
The Value of the Internal Family for the Highly Sensitive Person
I'll bet that most everyone reading this is aware of multiple personality disorder. We've seen it portrayed on television and in movies as an attribute belonging to a highly disturbed character. Well, a number of psychological schools of thought propose that we're all...
Five Steps to Mental Clarity for the HSP
We often lose clarity as the wear and tear of the day's events take a toll on the integrity of our brain and nervous system. The afternoon is a common time to feel a drop in physical as well as mental energy and clarity. While many of us have learned to rely on food...
The HSP’s (Often Reluctant) Healing Journey from Head to Heart
Life is challenging and even more so for HSPs who think, feel, and process experience more deeply. While sensitivity is a gift once certain navigating skills are learned, the learning process usually involves first getting lost. It's easy to get lost and even easier...
The Highly Sensitive Trait: It’s Not in Your Head, It’s In Your Brain
One of the most painful emotional injuries we suffer is to feel rejected by those we love, especially family. Often, we're rejected simply because we're different from others, and not understood. Roughly twenty percent of individuals share a biological and genetic...
Navigating Painful Loss for the Highly Sensitive – Part 2
In the previous post, I shared about my loss of hope for a change in human consciousness that would support a more just and sustainable future for us and our planet. What I'm sharing about dealing with painful loss can realistically be applied to any emotional...
Navigating Painful Loss for the Highly Sensitive – Part 1
What's motivating this post about painful loss is my felt pain of losing hope for the creation of a more just and sustainable future for people and our planet. It's about lost hope for the hundredth monkey principle to finally kick in with a surge of consciousness...
You Didn’t Do It. It Was Your Autonomic Nervous System!
I love dogs in part because I find it hard to judge them. Something in me knows they are who they are and that makes them better than okay in my book. I only wish I had more of that same accepting attitude towards humans in general and myself in particular. I'm going...
The Highly Sensitive Man Isn’t What You Think
Sensitivity in men, while potentially a gift and strength can frequently lead to suffering when it's not understood or appreciated. If you're reading this there's a good chance that you're a highly sensitive man or at least know one. This trait often leads to...
Transforming Anxiety with Heart Wisdom in The Highly Sensitive Person
Anxiety isn't our foe, but it certainly feels that way. The real enemy is our resistance to our anxious feelings and the awareness of the things in our life they relate to. Resisting anxiety sounds like a no-brainer and the thought of not resisting it, or even the...
Reducing Pain & Illness in the Highly Sensitive Person
Over the years I've become acutely aware that the avoidance of stressful feelings is a major cause of both physical and emotional suffering. I know this sounds counter-intuitive, but over and over, I've seen both physical pain and anxiety ease or vanish as stressful...
The Highly Sensitive Person in Pain
The highly sensitive person (HSP) is more vulnerable to the growing epidemic of stress-induced chronic pain and illness than those with a less sensitive nervous system. On the other hand, the HSP has a distinct advantage when it comes to resolving stress-induced pain...
What’s Causing Chronic Pain & Illness in the Highly Sensitive Person?
Frequently chronic pain sufferers have tried the best that modern medicine has to offer, along with a variety of natural treatments, diets, and remedies without finding lasting relief. Often pain lingers in spite of our best efforts. Could we simply be missing the...
The Neuroscience of How to Feel Safe in Scary Times
The experience of safety is not only comforting to the soul, it's also an immune booster. So during this COVID-19 pandemic where there is so much uncertainty and fear, it's important for us to be able to experience safety .... for the sake of our immune systems. Just...
How Your Heart Connects You to the Healing Wisdom of Nature … or Not!
Try thinking of your heart as more of an energy and communication center than a mechanical pump. Think Iron Man. Conceptualizing your heart as much more than a pump brings you closer to the modern neurocardiology understanding of your heart. Your energetic heart is...
Quick Tips for Relieving Anxiety & Boosting Immunity
When we're stressed, and who isn't, our bodies divert resources away from fighting microbes to fighting larger potential threats. That's how your nervous system is wired. Tigers, rude bosses, or financial worries take precedence over microscopic life forms....