How I Learned to Let Go of Other People’s Emotions
As a highly sensitive person and empath, I felt other people’s stress, tension, and brokenness as if it were my own.
14 Problems Only Empaths Will Understand
Empaths have the unique ability to sense and absorb the feelings of others — and that can create some real challenges.
Do You Feel Emotions ‘More’ Than Other People? You’re Not Alone
Whether it’s their daily commute or just getting groceries, HSPs may struggle with overstimulation from the heightened emotions of those around them.
How to Survive Holiday Dinners as a Highly Sensitive Person
Holiday get-togethers can be exhausting and overwhelming for highly sensitive people, who process everything deeply. Here’s how I survive.
Why Doctor Visits Really Are Different for Highly Sensitive People
Highly sensitive people are easily receptive to pain — both physical and emotional — which can make doctor visits and health concerns extra difficult.
4 Common HSP Health Challenges (and How to Deal With Them)
For highly sensitive people, who feel and process things deeply, staying healthy may look very different than it does for other people.
Get Overstimulated Easily? You Might Be a Highly Sensitive Person
Does too much noise or activity feel like a force crushing down? You might be a highly sensitive person.
4 Pitfalls of the Highly Sensitive Person (and How to Avoid Them)
In a world that shames people who are “too sensitive,” every highly sensitive person faces pitfalls. Here are the most common ones — and how to defeat them.
Sensitive People Are ‘Big’ Thinkers in a ‘Small’ Thinking World
As highly sensitive people, we “see behind the curtain,” feeling and understanding what others do not.
Highly Sensitive People Have a Special Bond With Animals
Are you the one who knows what an animal needs or tries to communicate with it when others are at a loss? You might be a highly sensitive person.
12 Reasons You Should Date a Highly Sensitive Person
Opinion: It might be the best relationship decision you’ll ever make.
This Is What Overstimulation Feels Like for HSPs
It was as if my senses had tensed up and recoiled out of self-defense.