Managing Your News Intake: How HSPs Can Stay Informed Without Overwhelm
As a highly sensitive person (HSP), managing your news intake is crucial to staying engaged with the issues you care about. The sheer volume of news, especially when it tugs at your empathy, can quickly leave you feeling emotionally drained. While staying informed is important for your safety and the ability to take meaningful action, it doesn’t...
Struggling with Focus? Try These Tips for Neurodivergent Minds
I wish I could say I’m super organized with my time, but the truth is, I often find myself struggling with focus and organization in my work. This might surprise you if you’ve attended one of my retreats. Guests often praise my organization and attention to detail. I can be organized and detailed, especially when others rely on me. But the...
Building Affirming Spaces for Queer HSPs and Introverts
I want a world in which all people can live with safety, freedom, and dignity. I do my best to act in support of such a dignified existence at a variety of levels. But of course, my activism is limited when it comes to influencing the world. Where I can have a profound impact is the gathering spaces that I co-create with other highly sensitive...
Navigating Collective Grief as Highly Sensitive People
In today’s world, we're exposed to an unprecedented level of collective trauma, resulting in significant collective grief as highly sensitive people. As deep feelers, we may hesitate to acknowledge the grief we feel about issues that seem beyond our control, fearing emotional overwhelm. However, avoiding or suppressing our emotions can lead to...
Crafting Ethical Retreats: Navigating Venue Selection with Care
When organizing retreats, my selection process for venues involves extensive criteria. Some relate to logistics, including location, cost, and layout. I prioritize venues with privacy, reasonable pricing, and single occupancy rooms. Other criteria encompass my environmental and social values. Environmental Ethos: Upholding Sustainability in...
Too Much Empathy? Try This Instead
Do you ever feel like you have too much empathy? Empathy is generally seen as a strength. It allows us to resonate with the emotions of others and understand their perspectives. However, for highly sensitive people who are finely attuned to the emotions of others, sometimes empathy can feel like a burden. Sharing in someone's joy may be...
A Guide to Balancing Social Action and Self-Care During the Holidays
Some love the holidays. Others struggle with grief, loneliness, broken family ties, or various pressures. Most of us experience a combination of both joy and sorrow. This year, these personal challenges may be compounded by the grief that Palestinians, Israelis, and Jews are experiencing and the senseless division accompanying human suffering....
A Call for Humanity: Help Palestinians in Gaza
Edited on October 31, 2023 I've been trying to find the right words to share. I want to be sensitive to my Palestinian, Israeli, Muslim, and Jewish readers. I want those of you who are suffering to know that I see you. My heart is heavy with the suffering that has been inflicted on innocent civilians in Israeli and Palestinian communities. I...
How Our Pursuit of Comfort Affects the World Around Us
It's perfectly understandable that highly sensitive people find many aspects of our current world uncomfortable, and even overwhelming at times. Unfettered industrial growth has created environments that often feel jarring to our sensitive nervous systems, so it’s natural that we have a tendency to retreat into that which feels safe and familiar....
Flying with Ease: How to Manage Anxiety on Long Flights
You've taken the leap and booked your trip. The anticipation of the adventures that lie ahead fills you with excitement – envisioning awe-inspiring sights, savoring delightful new flavors, and immersing yourself in the sensory experiences of the places you'll visit. Yet, nestled within this excitement comes some unease about the flight. Embarking...