What It’s Like Growing Up as a Highly Sensitive Child in a Chaotic Home
Through divorces, stepfathers, and endless moves, I carried the weight of being the “sensitive” child, and the only one who seemed affected by the chaos.
Through divorces, stepfathers, and endless moves, I carried the weight of being the “sensitive” child, and the only one who seemed affected by the chaos.
Not every sensitive soul looks sensitive on the outside.
Taking the time you need doesn’t make you weak.
#16: We see right through to your soul.
As a highly sensitive person, I’m the one who notices every emotion in the office — which means I’m often the one managing those emotions for others.
The secret to an empath’s wellbeing is to break the momentum of sensory overload before it consumes you.
We’re not interested in your crazy loud stimuli.
When you’re sensitive by nature, it can shape your loneliness — turning it into a spiral.
We’re not comfortable telling you the whole story — until we trust you.
New advice from Tom Falkenstein’s book “The Highly Sensitive Man” shows how overstimulation is at the root of intense emotions — and how to control it.
#4 We need your patience, not your anger.
I’d like to be able to eat without earplugs.
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