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Identifying as HSP – Harmful or Helpful?

Identifying as HSP – Harmful or Helpful?

by Melissa Noel Renzi | Dec 22, 2018 | Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person

Have you ever stopped to question whether identifying as HSP could be harmful? Before you throw your hands up in the air wondering what kind of a mess of contradictions I am for asking that question…please hear me out. When I first learned about the...
How to Get Out of Your Head and into Your Heart

How to Get Out of Your Head and into Your Heart

by Melissa Noel Renzi | Nov 17, 2018 | Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person

Do you find it difficult to get out of your head? This is a common struggle for many highly sensitive people. Despite having an inherent ability to feel, it can be tough to get out of your head and move into your body.Or you may feel like you spend enough time feeling...
Nadi Shodhana: A Breathing Technique to Help Calm Anxiety

Nadi Shodhana: A Breathing Technique to Help Calm Anxiety

by Melissa Noel Renzi | Nov 14, 2018 | Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, Meditation, Yoga

Want to learn a breathing technique for anxiety? Breathing techniques may not always work to ease anxiety, but that doesn’t mean that breathing never works. Different tools work in different ways for different people. What’s important is that you have...
Why Highly Sensitive People Overthink Simple Decisions

Why Highly Sensitive People Overthink Simple Decisions

by Melissa Noel Renzi | Oct 20, 2018 | Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person

This article was originally written for Introvert Spring under the title: “Why Highly Sensitive People Overthink So Much”. Do you tend to overthink decisions? Highly sensitive people overthink in a way not everyone understands. Overthinking can make us anxious and...
Sunday Anxiety? Do this one thing now to cope with anxious feelings

Sunday Anxiety? Do this one thing now to cope with anxious feelings

by Melissa Noel Renzi | Sep 23, 2018 | Anxiety

Do you ever face Sunday anxiety? There’s a combination of factors that can cause you to feel anxious on Sundays. Sometimes it’s job stress or uncertainty about the upcoming week. Or maybe you’ve worn yourself to the bone socializing. And then other...
Worrying About What Others Think? What to Know and What to Do

Worrying About What Others Think? What to Know and What to Do

by Melissa Noel Renzi | Jul 21, 2018 | Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person

Do you get stuck worrying about what others think? A fellow HSP requested advice on how to stop worrying about what others think of her. I get this question a lot. I want to share what’s helped me personally because, frankly, a lot of advice I hear is too simplistic....
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