How I Survived Sexual Assault as a Highly Sensitive Person
Being a highly sensitive person made the pain more painful, but the lessons much more potent.
7 Ways to Adapt — and Embrace — Being a Highly Sensitive Person
The sooner you embrace being a highly sensitive person, the sooner you can leverage your sensitivity to your advantage.
HSPs Are the Ultimate Body Language Experts
HSPs often pay less attention to the words that are spoken — instead, they pay more attention to what is unspoken.
Why It’s Important to Tell Your Medical Practitioners About Being an HSP
An overloaded nervous system can cause many symptoms that practitioners might misinterpret and misdiagnose — so it’s important to be open about being an HSP.
This Is the Difference Between “Sensitive” and “Highly Sensitive” — and Why it Matters
A highly sensitive person is more sensitive to just about everything — it’s like taking sensitivity and turning up the dial times a hundred.
How to Overcome Inadequacy as an HSP
As HSPs, it’s easy to seek our own value in the opinions of others — and end up feeling inadequate or judged. Here’s how to change that.
How to Stop Personalizing Things as an HSP
One way to stop taking things personally as an HSP is to ask yourself if what someone did or said is rooted in facts — or is it just your interpretation?
Why Verbal Communication Can Be Difficult for Quiet HSPs — and How to Change That
As a quiet HSP who easily gets overwhelmed by external stimuli — from background noise to someone’s strong perfume — verbal communication can be a struggle.
13 Tips for Raising a Sensitive Boy
It is important for boys to see their sensitivity in a positive light. Teach your son that high sensitivity is a blessing, not a burden.
9 Ways I Manage My Chronic Illness as a Highly Sensitive Person
Writing daily gratitude lists and creating a therapeutic environment I can retreat to are just two ways I soothe my highly sensitive side.
9 Secret Powers of Highly Sensitive People
You’re a human tuning fork: you can pick up on how someone feels before they even realize they’re feeling that way.
9 Types of Journaling Perfect for Highly Sensitive People
From gratitude journals to Morning Pages, there’s a type of journaling ideal for every HSP.