My experience as a highly sensitive Latina is different from what you might expect — and sheds light on the struggles that all HSPs deal with, regardless of race.

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

Being an HSP is not the same as having a chronic illness, but it is something that is a preset deep within your body and cannot be ignored.

It helps to think of boundaries as invisible lines that separate us from others and help us feel safe, respected, and in control.

Highly sensitive people don’t like taking risks — and it can cost us. Here’s how to take risks the sensitive and safe way.

Meditation may actually have a greater effect for highly sensitive people than it does for others — with benefits that go way beyond a peaceful state of mind.

Do you have a hard time ignoring noises? Do sounds that seem small to others seem “big” to you? You’re not alone. Here’s what to do.

Since highly sensitive people see the world differently than those who are less sensitive, the way HSPs deal with it is different, too.

As a highly sensitive extrovert, I’ll need alone time to feed my sensitive side, yet I’ll also need people time to feed my extrovert one.

Little-known fact: You can’t feel overstimulated and playful at the same time.

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

I’ve come to realize that I’d always been sensitive — I just didn’t know how to identify it before. Now I know I’m an HSP. So what now?