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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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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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Different Types Of Sensitivity

So after spending a month researching sensory sensitivities that some HSPs experience, I began to understand the finer differences between what HSP is actually about and how to not confuse it with other type of sensitivity. Empathy People would call Highly Sensitive People empaths, even though its not the same. Empaths are attuned or ‘sensitive’ […]

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When Your Friend Has Highly Sensitive Eyes

Eyesight or sense of sight is one of the most problematic and most rewarding areas for HSPs. And rightly so, after all humans have survived for as long as we have been on this planet mostly because of being able to see. While seeing horror and deeply emotional scenes on TV might give you that […]