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How To Start Coping With Anxiety As An HSP

Learning how to overcome or lower my anxiety wasn’t just a decision made by other people in my life. A little bit more than a half a year ago, when I realised that I was a Highly Sensitive Person all my life, I decided that the only logical thing I can do to help myself […]

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Flash Fiction Saturdays – In A Forest

317 words I jumped into the greens of blueberry bushes. Long grass shook and swung from the impact, tickling my legs. My naked feet in sandals bared prickly ground made of pine needles and cones. The ants scattered in separate directions. I would spend all day in there, loitering around, bugging bugs on trees, and […]

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Forest Bathing In A Town

Forest bathing recently came up in the UK and became quite popular. It is the Japanese practice of being mindful within the threes in a forest, breathing in the nature around. It is proven to be really helpful to de-stress, and it is especially helpful for Highly Sensitive People. Nurturing Souls Of HSPs When I […]

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Dear World: Please Stop Assuming Every Sensitive Person Is an Introvert

I grew up thinking I am an introvert, when in fact I was a leader to my classmates and a leader to my circle of friends. I remember how after a day of actively helping my classmates to win a sport event, I would come home and cry that I wasn’t popular enough or that […]

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Flash Fiction Saturday: Dementia (late post)

That morning I opened my eyes to a blinding light falling on to my bed. I pressed my hands into the white sheets, helping myself to sit up. There was someone in my room, waiting with his back turned towards me. There was a tint of nostalgia in these tall white walls. Warming rays of […]