HSP Blog
My blog will touch upon many topics for treating body/mind/spirit, from diet and exercise to coping, discovering, appreciating, accepting and healing.
My Highly Sensitive Recovery — Part 4
HSPs make up 15-20% of the population. We are highly perceptive, great listeners, highly compassionate, highly empathic, and make wonderful friends, therapists and mothers. However, there are pros and cons to being Highly Sensitive.
My Highly Sensitive Recovery — Part 3
At times during my Highly Sensitive Recovery I couldn’t live without my anti-inflammatory meds, became dependent on sleep aids, muscle relaxants for the high-pain nights, antidepressants for depression and anxiety, over-used food and alcohol for comfort, and so it went.
My Highly Sensitive Recovery — Part 2
My health was seriously suffering. All because I insisted I could keep up with others in the world. What was I thinking as a highly sensitive person?
My Highly Sensitive Recovery (a Multipart Series) — Part 1
This is the story of my Highly Sensitive Recovery. If you’re looking for a fellow Highly Sensitive Person who has been in the sensitive trenches, limped through the HSP landmines, crawled through the muck of living amongst a slew of uncompromising non-sensitive people, here I am!
Healing Back Pain! The HSP Body-Mind, Part V
I’ve suffered from chronic lower back pain for 40 years. I’d never experienced enduring relief until I read Dr. Sarno’s book, “Healing Back Pain.”
HSP Body-Mind, Part V; Be a Victor not a Victim to your Thoughts!
In my private practice with dozens of Highly Sensitive Women, it is easy to notice the recurring themes. There are times I begin to think we were all made from the same mold. Neurologically speaking, we very well may be. If we exit the womb with a greatly more...
The Highly Sensitive Person Body-Mind: Palpitating Hearts and Cat Fights
As many of you know I live on the Big Island of Hawaii. Two of my neighbors have cats, and the sound of cat fighting can send my sensitive heart into orbit.
Mindfulness; Where is Your Bubble?
If you have ever used a level, you know how difficult it is to keep the bubble in the middle. Mindfulness is that easy, and that difficult to maintain.
A Weekend with Dr. Elaine Aron; Part II
Here were some outtakes from notes that I took during Dr. Elaine Aron’s lectures. Avoidance for HSPs is a good thing, not a negative or cowardly thing.
Sensory Processing Sensitivity and HSPs; A Weekend Conference with Dr. Elaine Aron, Part I
In July of this year, I was fortunate to attend a conference with Dr. Elaine Aron and learn more about HSPs and Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS).