How to Maximize Your Creativity as a Highly Sensitive Person
HSPs are said to be natural creatives. Here’s how to fully harness your creativity and make it work for you.
9 Things HSPs Need Their Partners to Understand
HSPs often feel that they’re “alone” even when their partner is right there. Here’s what we want you to know to understand us.
Why HSPs Need More Alone Time Than Others
For highly sensitive people, alone time isn’t just about being alone. It’s how we keep our brains from short-circuiting.
Why Highly Sensitive People Love to Read
For highly sensitive people, a book is more than just a good story. It’s a refuge.
What Highly Sensitive People Value Most in a Friend
Healthy HSP friendships deeply support each other, using listening as a two-way street.
9 Things I Wish I Had Known Before Going to Therapy as an HSP
HSPs get overstimulated, anxious, and overwhelmed. Does therapy really help?
This Is the Difference Between “Sensitive” and “Highly Sensitive” — and Why it Matters
A highly sensitive person is more responsive to just about everything — it’s like taking sensitivity and turning the dial up to 10.
HSP Brains Process Everything Deeply, Even at Rest, Study Finds
If it feels like your highly sensitive brain never “shuts off” and stops thinking deeply, you’re right — it doesn’t!
10 Ways Sex Is Different for Highly Sensitive People
Highly sensitive people are more in tune with subleties around them — including when it comes to sex.
For HSPs, ‘Compassion Fatigue’ Is All Too Real
HSPs are wired to care about others. So why does it leave us so shellshocked — and what can you do about it?
This Is Why HSPs Can’t ‘Turn Off’ Sensing Other People’s Emotions
As a highly sensitive person, you can’t just flip a switch and stop absorbing emotions. But can you learn to control it?
Why Do So Many Highly Sensitive People Struggle with Social Anxiety?
Most HSPs avoid large social events. But when does a healthy preference for solitude stray into social anxiety?