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This is the Best Self-Help Book I Read This Year!

Steven Kessler’s The 5 Personality Patterns is the best self-help book I read this year. In fact, it’s one of the best self-help books I have read in a long while! Just like any other book, there were a couple of things that I didn’t agree with, but on the whole, there is so much good stuff in this book that I would recommend that you pick it up and read it!

The 5 Personality Patterns talks about the self-defensive patterns we develop as we grow up to ward off feelings of stress and...

How Dreams Can Reveal Secrets to Highly Sensitive People.

Working with the symbols in our dreams can be an amazing way to tune into our intuition as highly sensitive people. It’s a way to cut through the din of other people’s voices, a way to tune in to our deeper self. This post is an excerpt from The Empath’s Journey in which I talk about a dream with color in it.

This was during a time when I was having vivid, colorful dreams. I was still adjusting to life here in the States. I was also newly married and trying out the “wifely” role for the...

Interview with author Tim Myers!

This week, we welcome the wonderful Tim Myers to the blog. Tim is an author, a songwriter, and a lover of beautiful words. He has 16 children’s books out (one of which was on the New York Times bestseller list for children’s books and was read aloud on NPR) and several more on the way. He has also published four books of poetry for adults (with one in press), been nominated for two Pushcarts, and won a prize in the Writers of the Future Contest for Science Fiction/Fantasy. Tim is a Senior Le...

Highly Sensitive and Anxious? An Insight that Might Help.

This is a re-post from a few years ago.

Trigger-warning: I mention an example from a book that might trigger you if you have been sexually abused. So, if you are feeling overwhelmed already, please don’t read this post today. Please come to it when you feel supported or have taken very good care of yourself. With love!

Like many other highly sensitive people, I am prone to over-thinking. Worry was my constant companion for years. A lot of it was the after-effects of trauma. I tried to think my way through si...

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Interview with author Audrey Kalman!

This week, we welcome the lovely Audrey Kalman to the blog. Audrey writes literary fiction with a dark edge that talks about things that can go wrong when human connection is missing from our lives. She is the author of two novels — What Remains Unsaid and Dance of Souls as well as a book of short stories, Tiny Shoes Dancing, which was shortlisted for the prestigious 2019 International Rubery Book Award. 

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Interview with author Audrey Kalman – Where ideas come from, how to follow your unique creative process, and the sacred nature of birthing a book!

This week, we welcome the lovely Audrey Kalman to the blog. Audrey writes literary fiction with a dark edge that talks about things that can go wrong when human connection is missing from our lives. She is the author of two novels — What Remains Unsaid and Dance of Souls as well as a book of short stories, Tiny Shoes Dancing, which was shortlisted for the prestigious 2019 International Rubery Book Award. 

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Become an Expert on Yourself – A Test to Find Your Strengths!

As highly sensitive people, we are often very tuned in to other people’s feelings and emotions. Their moods affect us, and because our own boundaries feel permeable to these feelings, we can start to almost become an expert on other people’s feelings.

We often do this in an attempt to pre-empt these strong feelings and shape-shift our behavior so we don’t have to deal with feeling guilty or feel the full force of someone’s anger when we set a boundary.

Becoming healthy as a highly sensiti...

The Secret to How INFPs and INFJs can Communicate Effectively.

If you are an INFP or INFJ, you likely jump from one thought to another when you are talking. This isn’t a problem when two intuitive types are having a conversation. We intuitively get what the other person is saying. We understand how one topic has led to the other as something we said started a train of association in the person we are talking to.

But this doesn’t work when we are talking to sensing personality types. Since they make up almost three-fourths of the world, this means that often, we,...

Interview with Connie L. Habash, author of Awakening from Anxiety!

This week, we welcome the lovely Rev. Connie L. Habash, LMFT, author of the book Awakening from Anxiety: A Spiritual Guide to Living a More Calm, Confident, and Courageous Life, to the blog. Connie is a California-based licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, an ordained Interfaith minister, and a fellow highly sensitive person. 

Her work has been featured on Elephant Journal, New York Times bestsellin

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My Childhood Experience of Being “Too Sensitive.”

Even as a child, this being “too sensitive” had often left me feeling as if the world was too much for me. It was too big, too large, too hurtful. One of my earliest memories is of walking to a neighborhood Delhi market with my naani (my maternal grandmother) for some errands she had to do. My family stayed in a small government DDA flat, and in the evenings, we often wound our way through the neighborhood parks to go to the market.  

It was the kind of market that sits next to blocks upon blocks of low...