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HSPs and Emotional Neglect: Common Struggles & How to Heal

HSPs and Emotional Neglect: Common Struggles & How to Heal

by Melissa Noel Renzi | Jan 26, 2021 | Highly Sensitive Person, HSP Relationships, Self Care

If your emotional needs as an HSP were ignored or ridiculed growing up, you‘re not alone. It’s not uncommon for HSPs to experience emotional neglect by caregivers. As an HSP, you have unique emotional needs, most of which you arrived into this world with, due to your...
Yoga for Highly Sensitive People: A Practice in Self-Love

Yoga for Highly Sensitive People: A Practice in Self-Love

by Melissa Noel Renzi | Mar 23, 2019 | Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, Self Care, Trauma, Yoga

It’s no secret that yoga can support highly sensitive people. A slow-paced, nurturing yoga practice can be just the medicine to calm an anxious nervous system and learn to befriend the most uncomfortable thoughts and feelings highly sensitive people often...
How to Stop Absorbing Other People’s Emotions

How to Stop Absorbing Other People’s Emotions

by Melissa Noel Renzi | May 9, 2018 | Highly Sensitive Person, HSP Relationships, Self Care

“How to Stop Absorbing Other People’s Emotions” was republished with permission from www.tinybuddha.com. You can find the original post here: “How I Learned to Stop Absorbing Other People’s Emotions”. I felt her agony and loneliness as if...
Emotional Regulation as an HSP: 10 Experts Offer Advice

Emotional Regulation as an HSP: 10 Experts Offer Advice

by Melissa Noel Renzi | Apr 7, 2018 | Highly Sensitive Person, Self Care

If you’re a highly sensitive person (HSP), you know that developing emotional regulation as an HSP can be challenging at times. As HSPs, we feel our emotions deeply. Whether we feel anger, excitement, or sadness, emotions fill us up viscerally and can impact our...
8 Things Highly Sensitive People Need for Self-Care

8 Things Highly Sensitive People Need for Self-Care

by Melissa Noel Renzi | Mar 24, 2018 | Highly Sensitive Person, Self Care

There are specific things highly sensitive people need to practice good self-care. Yes, self-care is important for everyone, but highly sensitive people tend to have specific needs. If we don’t take time for these things, we can easily wear ourselves down to the bone....
A Gratitude for Grief Meditation to Transform Your Loss

A Gratitude for Grief Meditation to Transform Your Loss

by Melissa Noel Renzi | Nov 24, 2017 | Grief and Loss, Meditation, Self Care

Can I share something personal with you? My grandma passed away over the weekend. I’ve lost two grandmas and my stepmom this year. Having lost my mom, stepdad, and grandpa in the last decade, sometimes it feels like the people I love are constantly dying....
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