Why Your Sensitivity Is Your Superpower — And How to Recognize It
It took years, but I finally reached a breaking point: I decided to stop feeling inferior for my sensitivity due to others’ insensitivity.
It took years, but I finally reached a breaking point: I decided to stop feeling inferior for my sensitivity due to others’ insensitivity.
Empathy, not technical skill, is the key to doing groundbreaking creative work. HSPs, your natural talents are needed.
The first step to “doing nothing” as a highly sensitive person is to stop shaming yourself for wanting time to decompress and just be.
Because highly sensitive people get overstimulated easily, the right therapist can help them navigate their internal and external worlds.
As a highly sensitive person, you’re wired to sense the subtle, which will help when it comes to nurturing your intuition.
Even though highly sensitive people are experts at taking care of others, they need to make time for themselves, too, by practicing self-care.
Since highly sensitive people tend to be people-pleasers, creating (and maintaining) boundaries can be a challenge. But it is doable — and crucial.
The first step in reaching your potential as a highly sensitive person is accepting that you are one — from there, you’ll embrace it rather than shun it.
Similar to getting a check-up at the doctor, HSPs should check in with themselves throughout the day to assess how they’re feeling.
When you think of your HSP traits as strengths instead of challenges, you’ll have a whole new appreciation for them.
For HSPs, living in a state of unsustainable uncertainty can feel like too much to bear. But there are ways to make it easier to cope.
When an HSP is listening to someone talking, they can feel what the speaker is feeling, which makes for a meaningful exchange.
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