How to Thrive in Stimulating Social Environments as an HSP
Using these tactics, you can thrive — not just survive — in stimulating social environments as an HSP.
Using these tactics, you can thrive — not just survive — in stimulating social environments as an HSP.
A lot of TV and movie characters are highly sensitive and have the emotional equivalent of 3D glasses or Smell-O-Vision!
They need us to put what they feel into words that teachers will understand.
Highly sensitive people get overstimulated easily — and when you’re a pregnant HSP, this is magnified even more so.
Since HSPs are easily overwhelmed by external stimuli, certain activities are more their speed than others.
‘Climate grief’ is loss and anxiety you may feel about the climate and how it’s changing. And since HSPs feel everything more deeply, ‘climate grief’ may be more common than you think.
One example of a cognitive distortion is “filtering,” when you look at a situation through metaphorical binoculars and focus on the negatives vs. the positives.
If you have a victim mentality, you perceive your life as happening to you instead of your own actions directing your life.
I no longer wished to “fix” my sensitivity. Instead, I created a life that aligned with my sensitive soul.
As an HSP, I’ve discovered some key strategies that serve as “relationship fertilizer” — they help strengthen and fortify my marriage.
You may not feel like you need to seek help, but that’s the dangerous irony: when HSPs don’t feel much, it’s potentially a cause for concern.
“As a highly sensitive person who wanted her family to be happy, I used to constantly search for ways to please them. But living in a van is something that I wanted for myself.”
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