Little-known fact: You can’t feel overstimulated and playful at the same time.

When an HSP’s core trait — sensitivity — is not just absent from being celebrated, but demonized all together, it’s hard to love it.

I’ve come to realize that I’d always been sensitive — I just didn’t know how to identify it before. Now I know I’m an HSP. So what now?

When highly sensitive people feel overwhelmed, the goal is to take care of our bodies, so our bodies take care of us.

Highly sensitive people can be introverts or extroverts, but big groups of people overload us either way. So how should you cope?

Because HSPs are people-pleasers, it’s easy to “blame” yourself for being “too sensitive.” But it’s time for that narrative to change — now.

When you’re a highly sensitive person, it seems like you’re on a nonstop trampoline, bouncing back again… and again… and again.

I’m a highly sensitive person, I’m proud of it, and I’m not going to “toughen up.”

It was tough to grow up as a highly sensitive teen in a big family who didn’t “get” my sensitivity. But here’s how I survived.