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.

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?

When highly sensitive people feel overwhelmed, the goal is to take care of our bodies, so our bodies take care of us.

Highly sensitive people can be introverts or extroverts, but big groups of people overload us either way. So how should you cope?

It was tough to grow up as a highly sensitive teen in a big family who didn’t “get” my sensitivity. But here’s how I survived.

How you recognize, and use, your highly sensitive qualities will have a direct impact on your mornings. Here’s how.

Characteristics of India don’t immediately scream “HSP-friendly” — but I soon found it plays more to my sensitive strengths than not.

A lot of people don’t “get” our sensitivity, which makes it look like we’re the problem — which couldn’t be further from the truth.