Kindness is often taken for weakness. So how do you avoid being on the bottom?

Your heart starts racing, your ears may throb, your body tenses up. You’re getting flooded.

Depression affects sensitive people differently — and they need different tools to overcome it, too.

As highly sensitive people, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed when a moment becomes too loud or or too “busy.” That’s where grounding comes in.

I called up Dr. Elaine Aron, the researcher behind the HSP movement, for some much-needed advice.

I’ve been training for this day my whole life.

Codependency can begin in childhood, when HSP kids tune into the energy of their parents and adjust their own.

Western society encourages us to decide with the Mind and ignore feedback from the rest of the system.

I thought my inner critic was an enemy to be destroyed. It wasn’t until I learned to make peace with it that I stepped into freedom as an HSP.

For highly sensitive people, the new year can be an especially meaningful time of reflection. In that spirit of growth, here are five resolutions for HSPs.

As a highly sensitive person and empath, I felt other people’s stress, tension, and brokenness as if it were my own.

Holiday get-togethers can be exhausting and overwhelming for highly sensitive people, who process everything deeply. Here’s how I survive.