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How Do You React to the Word “Sensitive?”

I had this interesting experience with someone recently that got me thinking about how people react to the word “sensitive.” I went to this event recently where there were a bunch of other writers. I got a chance to talk to several of them. At one point, I talked to one person who spoke to me about how they used to have an aspect of sensitivity. It was mentioned briefly. Then, we went on to talk about other things.

Later on, I got a chance to talk to a bigger group about my book and what i...

How do you react to the word “sensitive?”

I had this interesting experience with someone recently that got me thinking about how people react to the word “sensitive.” I went to this event recently where there were a bunch of other writers. I got a chance to talk to several of them. At one point, I talked to one person who spoke to me about how they used to have an aspect of sensitivity. It was mentioned briefly. Then, we went on to talk about other things.

Later on, I got a chance to talk to a bigger group about my book and what i...

How Shame and Self-Doubt can Paralyze INFP Writers.

Have you ever felt hopelessly stuck as an INFP or INFJ writer? When you look online, you find “writing rules” that don’t feel right to you but that people state with so much confidence that you feel like you have to follow them. Do you feel as if there’s something terribly wrong with you because what’s working so well for everyone else just isn’t working for you?

This is how I felt for many years. When I looked online as an intuitive INFP writer, I unknowingly internalized rigid rules. I fe...

The Life-Changing Magic of Being “Enough.”

This post is inspired by one of Ryan Holiday’s newsletters, which I am subscribed to, in which he talked about his book Stillness is the Key and the life-changing magic of having “enough.” Enough has been coming up for me a lot in the past few months. What’s enough? How do I feel enough? How will I ever be happy if I am always striving and never doing and being enough?

This came up for me recently when I went to my first author fair. Each author had a table with their books displayed and could talk to readers a...

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Interview with Alie Harwood, Holistic Wellness & Confidence Coach!

This week, we welcome Alie Harwood, fellow INFP and HSP, to the blog. Alie is a Holistic Wellness and Confidence Coach. Her work helps shy introverted women break free from overthinking & self-judgment so they can feel comfortable in their own skin & express their authentic self in the world.   

I am so excited to have Alie here. We talk about what self-confidence looks like for introverted women, INFP intuition, the fact that we both don’t subscribe to stereotypical definitions of introvert...

Come Meet Me at the Local Author’s Fair in Mountain View, California!

Hi guys. I just wanted to do a quick post. For those of you based in the San Francisco Bay Area, please come and meet me & other local authors this Saturday, October 12 from 1-3 pm at the Mountain View Library’s Local Author Fair. The Mountain View library is one of the places I wrote The Empath’s Journey, so this is going to be special for me!

Click here for event details.

Last year, I met several great writers including the lovely Anne Janzer here (Check out her “writing process” books ...

Free YA Thriller from author Amanda Linehan!

I wanted to do a quick post to share a giveaway for Amanda Linehan’s YA book Uncover. Amanda is a fellow INFP, highly sensitive person and kindred spirit. Uncover is a psychological thriller and is available for free the entire month of October! I would highly recommend checking it out. Amanda’s work is full of interesting characters and relatable interpersonal dynamics.

Get your free copy of Uncover here!

And if you would like some more details, read on below.

Whenever I have read Amand...

Highly Sensitive People, Luna Lovegood moments & Mahatma Gandhi.

Today is Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary. He was born 150 years ago on October 2, 1869. His birthday is a major national holiday in India called Gandhi Jayanti, and I thought I would take this chance to write a personal post and talk about some of my own thoughts and feelings around him.

One of my earliest associations with him is of my naani, my beloved maternal grandmother, telling us kids, “Mahatma Gandhi used to say “Apna Kaam Khud Karo” which loosely translates to the fact that we s...

Are you a High Sensation Seeking HSP?

Do you ever feel like you have two people inside you? One is stepping on the accelerator and the other one is pushing the brakes? One part of you loves variety & new experiences and can take risks while the other part is very cautious and risk-averse.

This is how I have often felt in my own life. One part of me seeks out new experiences while another part is always ultra-cautious.

This feeling of two disparate parts inside me has informed many of my choices. For example: In my 20s, I was...

Interview with Jasraj Hothi, Founder of The INF Club.

This week, we welcome Jasraj Hothi,  fellow INFP and HSP, to this blog. Jas is the London-based blogger behind The INF Club,a community for INFP and INFJ personality types as well as other introverted types who are also highly sensitive. You can find his writing on Medium and Highly Sensitive Refuge. Jas also writes fiction and poetry, and is planning to self-publish his first novel this year.

I have been looking forward to this interview and a chance to talk to a fellow INFP who is also hig...