Category: Highly Sensitive People
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What Is The Best Way To Overcome Anxiety and Panic Attacks??
Take it from someone who knows. Pain attacks suck. One minute you’re going along reading an email or driving to the market or contemplating your navel and the next you’re in full-blown freak-out mode. When extreme anxiety hits, all we want to do is stop it. To have it stop. To stop the mind-numbing, body…
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Loving Your (Im)perfect Body Means Loving You & Your HSPness
Highly Sensitive People, or, as I like to call them, Highly Sensitive Individuals (HSIs) because HSPs manifest so many various qualities of the HSPness factor, are trained from a very early age to believe we are flawed in some deep, unfixable way. It’s what pushes us over time to feel less and less capable. More…
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Is There A Logical Approach to Depression —and Does It Work?
Alane Freund, LMFT, HSP expert, says this about mental health: “There is one thing that absolutely improves mental health in a highly sensitive person — actually it makes everyone’s mental health better. THE MAGIC PILL IS SPIRITUAL PRACTICE.” I think in the past most of us either figured we needed some sort of pill to…
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Can You Really Choose How You Feel When Things Get F—ed Up
If you’ve read anything I’ve ever written, one of my books or articles, or taken one of my courses or classes, you know that I speak from my heart and my personal experience. I use examples from my own life so you know that I know what it looks like to wake up every day…
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How Can I Develop My Intuition (How Do I Know It’s Working?)
If you’ve read any of my other articles or books, you probably know by now that I’m a pretty staunch believer that intuition trumps logic, at least as most people perceive logic. Just look at it logically 🙂 How could anything someone else is telling you make more logical sense for you than your own…
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Do I need a psychiatrist, medical doctor… or energy healer?
Do I need a psychiatrist, medical doctor…or energy healer? What’s wrong with me? Why aren’t I like everyone else? Why do I feel like I’m from another planet? Why do I feel like crying all the time? Why do I have so many aches and pains? Here’s the real truth about what you need and why.…
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The Real Honest Truth: How the World Would Suffer Without Us
Would you say the world needs more billionaires? More war? More “rational” decision-making by those in power? More viruses? Um…probably not. Would you say the world needs more empathy? More compassion? More understanding? More…love? I’d guess probably yes. The Real Honest Truth-How the World Would Suffer Without Us Highly Sensitive Individuals So, let me ask…
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Why Can’t I Be Myself Around Others at Work? The 3 Best Tips
Have you noticed….? It’s one thing to be uncomfortable in social settings, quite another to be uncomfortable at work. In most instances, we are choosing our social settings—where we want to be and with whom. While at work, where colleagues, bosses, customers, clients, and all other related workers are there without any input from us,…
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Why Does Love Hurt So Much? 3 Tips To Go From Hurt to Happy.
This excerpt is from Marianne Williamson’s book A Return to Love. “Everybody thought I was weird. “It’s like you have some kind of virus,” [my brother] said. I remember thinking I was going to shoot out of my body that moment. I felt like an alien. I had often felt as though life was a…