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A Resource Guide to Find Community, Take Action and Stay Informed — Without Overwhelm

A Resource Guide to Find Community, Take Action and Stay Informed — Without Overwhelm

by Melissa Noel Renzi | Feb 19, 2025 | Activism, highly sensitive activism

Staying informed without overwhelm can be difficult when we’re flooded with distressing news. The new U.S. administration’s constant barrage of egregious actions, and executive orders is not random—it’s a deliberate strategy to exhaust us into despair and inaction....
Managing Your News Intake: How HSPs Can Stay Informed Without Overwhelm

Managing Your News Intake: How HSPs Can Stay Informed Without Overwhelm

by Melissa Noel Renzi | Oct 14, 2024 | Activism, Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person

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...
Navigating Collective Grief as Highly Sensitive People

Navigating Collective Grief as Highly Sensitive People

by Melissa Noel Renzi | Jun 21, 2024 | Activism, Anxiety, Grief and Loss

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,...
A Guide to Balancing Social Action and Self-Care During the Holidays

A Guide to Balancing Social Action and Self-Care During the Holidays

by Melissa Noel Renzi | Dec 14, 2023 | Activism, highly sensitive activism, HSP Relationships

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...
A Call for Humanity: Help Palestinians in Gaza

A Call for Humanity: Help Palestinians in Gaza

by Melissa Noel Renzi | Oct 19, 2023 | Activism

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...
Upset by the Overturning of Roe? What You Can Do

Upset by the Overturning of Roe? What You Can Do

by Melissa Noel Renzi | Jun 28, 2022 | Activism, Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person

With the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, many of us are feeling flooded with emotions, from anger to sorrow to despair. If you’re feeling the devastation over this very personal choice and right to terminate a pregnancy being...
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