Highly Sensitive People and the Struggle with Boundaries.

As highly sensitive people who are deeply attuned to other people’s feelings and moods, we can sometimes really struggle with boundaries. After all, if we are picking up on someone’s anger or worry or sadness, it’s almost as if we have an added charge to deal with. We not only feel our own feelings, we also feel the weight and energy of the other person’s feelings. And so, many of us can get into the bad habit of smoothing over people’s feelings.

It’s almost as if we are trying to take c...