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Our Next Book Club Pick is Here!

Hailey Magee’s book Stop People Pleasing is our next pick for The Highly Sensitive Creative Book Club. Hailey is a self-confessed highly sensitive person (HSP) herself and so, her take on setting boundaries is aligned with a gentler, more nuanced approach. 

Register for this Online Book Club HERE. More details below. 

READING SCHEDULE 

We will go at a gentle pace & meet on Zoom on the following SATURDAYS from 12 pm to 1:30 pm PACIFIC TIME.

September 27: Introduction + Ch...

Growing Up as a Sensitive Kid.

I was doing some spring cleaning and came across a photo album that I brought from India (where I grew up) to my home here in the United States. And this was one of the photos in it. 

I am the kid in the bottom-row, sitting down, with her hand on her head.

I think it was on “fancy dress day” at school (We wore a uniform on normal days). Some of the other kids are more dressed-up for some reason I don’t quite remember.

Or a reason I didn’t even know then. I was usually in m...

“Wonder Seeker” is Our Next Book Club Pick!

Andrea Scher’s book Wonder Seeker is our next pick for The Highly Sensitive Creative Book Club!

If your inner well is running dry OR you’re feeling exhausted by the heaviness of the world, you will love this light, playful book. This book is as much about going on fun little adventures as it is about reading! 

Register for this Online Book Club HERE on Eventbrite. More Details Below.

READING SCHEDULE 

We will go at a gentle pace & meet on Zoom on the following Thursdays...

“Energetic Boundaries for Sensitives” Workshop.

This is a quick one today to say that “Energetic Boundaries for Sensitives” is our next workshop! 

Registration is FREE, but space is limited. 

Please register through Eventbrite HERE. (And read on below for more context.)   

We will meet on Zoom on May 10 from 11 am to 12:30 pm PACIFIC time for this workshop. Once you register, Eventbrite will send you an email with the Zoom link. AND if you have any other questions, please feel free to contact me directly through Eventbrit...

“Beyond Anxiety” is our next Book Club Pick!

Martha Beck’s book Beyond Anxiety is our next pick for The Highly Sensitive Creative Book Club. If you are someone who is both a thinker AND an overthinker, you will find this book an insightful read. In it, she talks about how to turn an “Anxiety Spiral” into a “Creativity Spiral.”

Register for this Online Book Club HERE on Eventbrite. More details below. 

READING SCHEDULE 

We will go at a gentle pace & meet on Zoom on the following Thursdays from 5 pm to 6:30 pm PACIFIC T...

Watching “Game of Thrones” as a Sensitive Person.

I’ve been reading the book Sensitive is the New Strong, which is our latest book club selection for The Highly Sensitive Creative book club. And a bunch of things have been jumping out at me. 

There are so many relatable things in it, so many things I’ve either thought or felt myself. AND at the same time, I’ve also had my own slightly-different reactions to some of the things the author talks about. 

One of the things the author mentions is not being able to watch Game of Thro...

“Sensitive is the New Strong” is our next Book Club pick!

Anita Moorjani’s book Sensitive is the New Strong is our next pick for The Highly Sensitive Creative Book Club. And the Eventbrite link to register is now live!

Register for this Online Book Club HERE. More details below.

READING SCHEDULE 

We will go at a gentle pace & meet on Zoom on the following Thursdays from 5 pm to 6:30 pm Pacific Time:  

October 17: Introduction & Chapters 1-3

November 7: Chapters 4-7

December 5: Chapters 8-11  

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“It is not always a refusal to grow that keeps us stuck.”

I came across this passage by Heidi Priebe recently that felt really useful to me. I thought I would share it in case it connects with you too: 

“It is not always a refusal to grow that keeps us stuck, but a refusal to grieve. 

Unprocessed pain about the past becomes unwarranted anxiety about the future. 

Until we understand why things happened the way they did, until we find a way to look back with acceptance, the present remains frozen in a state of resistance. We become i...

“To have high standards is often linked to low self-esteem.”

We have been reading Ilse Sand’s book Highly Sensitive People in an Insensitive World in The Highly Sensitive Creative Book Club. As it often does, some ideas from the book jumped out at me. 

One was when Ilse Sand talked about how highly sensitive people often lack faith in our own worth:  

“To have high standards is often linked to low self-esteem. High standards may have occurred as a way to compensate for this low self-esteem. The more you think you are not worth loving, th...

“Home is the place where your gifts are received.”

For the last few years, again and again, I have had this thought pop up in my mind, “I want to go home.” It took me a while to realize that this longing for home was symbolic of a feeling of home and not a need to physically move somewhere new. 

It’s funny that it took me so long to figure this out even though I connect with symbolic material regularly through connecting with my dreams. 

As I’ve unpacked the different meanings of what “home” feels like to me, I rediscovered th...