If you've read much about highly sensitive people you’ve seen articles or books suggesting that your sensitivity is a gift.  If it is a gift, the wrapping isn’t very inviting at first glance. And where the heck is the user manual? I’ve spent the better part of my...

The highly sensitive person’s body can be a reliable source of intuition, guidance, and insight if they only knew how to access this information. Complicating this issue is the fact that many HSPs learned early on to mute or ignore bodily felt sensations and feelings...

A challenge for the individual with a more highly sensitive nervous system is learning to live comfortably in the midst of emotional experience. This is important because our response to emotions either enhances or imbalances the functioning of our nervous system and...

Tension is a doorway to the Self for the highly sensitive person, while at the same time tension can be a preamble to pain or other chronic health complaints. The less conscious we are of tension, say in our low back, belly, neck, jaw, or temples, the more likely it...

Before you take that ‘deep therapeutic breath’ you might want to consider a few things about therapeutic breathwork when you're a highly sensitive person. First of all, breathwork can be very therapeutic, especially for HSPs. A gentler, slower, fuller, more rhythmical...

Pain is almost always met with resistance. We tend to fear pain and do our best to create distance between ourselves and the painful experience. When it comes to chronic pain, pain that's lingered for three months or more, this reflexive need to resist pain is...

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 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...

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,...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...