I used to think emotional resilience and sensitivity were mutually exclusive — but they make each other stronger.

High sensation seekers love novelty and hate boredom, which can be especially tricky to balance with being an HSP.

We HSPs are arguably more at home in the enigmatic terrain of intuition than we are in diagnosis and treatment.

I knew that something needed to change when I’d walk in the door, drop the keys, and start to spiral.

There are days when I just want to chuck my phone in a lake.

I’m both an HSP and a full-time traveler. Here’s how I make my journeys into a source of peace and calm.

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

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.

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.