With both my queer and HSP identities, over the years, pride replaced shame — and, by now, the shame is entirely gone. Joy has replaced it.

Going to therapy can change your life because it allows you to safely explore blind spots that you may have tried to overlook.

It took years, but I finally reached a breaking point: I decided to stop feeling inferior for my sensitivity due to others’ insensitivity.

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.

For HSPs, journal prompts are the perfect antidote to overthinking — they keep the head chatter quiet and get you out of mental loops.

You don’t have to measure your bad days against those of others — in your life ore around the world. Here’s how to put an an end to “comparative suffering.”

Embodying your strengths and thinking about how they help you — and others — is just one way to embrace being an HSP.

Highly sensitive people are some of the nicest people in the world — to everyone else. But be kind to yourself, too, especially during challenging times.

Getting enough sleep and carving out alone time are just two coping skills that should be in an HSP’s toolkit.

HSPs have plenty of empathy to “feed” on, which makes them prone to “energy vampires.”