A bad childhood — or child abuse — has an even bigger impact if you’re a highly sensitive person. But can you still recover, or even thrive?

It took a crisis to help me realize that my “big” emotions can be a “big” strength. Here’s how.

Dear highly sensitive mind: You think too much. You think ahead. You think behind. You think sideways and at odd angles. It’s too much.

A nomad lifestyle may offer the healing you need.

Being raised a Black woman, “strong” is who you are. Sensitive me didn’t measure up.

My idealism leads me to see the world as what it could be, not just as what it is — a world where ‘strong’ can look many different ways.

I’m an HSP with postpartum anxiety and depression, and the one seems to magnify the other.

Besides being Black, I’m also a highly sensitive person — and I’m not going to hide it.

Need to drink to handle a party? This might be why.

I feel everything deeply. How can I watch a man die for nine minutes?

There’s always a “good reason” to be perfect. But most of the time, it just makes you miserable.

One day, with my fingers stuck in my ears at a nightclub, I found help in an unlikely place.