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For Highly Sensitive People, Autumn Anxiety Is Real

While HSPs are more prone to experience anxiety in autumn, they’re also most poised to benefit from simple practices that restore balance.

When an HSP’s core trait — sensitivity — is not just absent from being celebrated, but demonized all together, it’s hard to love it.

You’re not watching the same movie I’m watching.

Are highly sensitive people more likely to overwork themselves — and how do they stop?

Some people are physically, emotionally, or sexually unsafe. Here’s how to get rid of them — without escalating things.

When we hide a crucial part of ourselves from other people — like our sensitivity — we never feel truly seen or accepted.

I’d like to be able to eat without earplugs.

Being an HSP isn’t always easy. Here are 8 ways to bring out your incredible strengths — and finally feel in tune with your highly sensitive trait.

Your HSP friend will listen to everything you say — and they’ll also understand everything you don’t say.

It was tough to grow up as an HSP in a big family who didn’t “get” my sensitivity. Here’s how to survive.

Your heart starts racing, your ears may throb, your body tenses up. You’re getting flooded.

Have you ever cringed at yourself for any of these?