Holiday tips for highly sensitive people
Holidays. Love them or hate them, if you're going on one and you're highly sensitive, or you have highly sensitive people as your travel companions: get prepared!! HSP flashpoints typically…
Stop over-reacting!
How often have you been triggered into a total hissy fit by the words "Stop over-reacting!!" When we're over-reacting, we definitely don't want to be told about it. In fact,…
Helping sensitive, intelligent children
One of the most frequent questions I hear from people interested in my work is "do you work with children?" I don't - at the moment - but I do…
Grieving our environment
This last month has seen some pretty alarming results being published. The possibility of a sixth mass extinction looms. CO2 is up, temperatures are up, extreme weather events are up.…
Are you sensitive or sensitised?
You've heard it too many times already. "Urgh, you're so sensitive" "Why do you have to take everything so seriously? So personally?" "What are you worried about that for?" Annoying,…
Post-natal numb
Fourteen months after my child was born, I first felt the warmth of my love for him. Fourteen long months of being emotionally shut down came to an end. Functional,…
How to tell when you’re ungrounded
Being ungrounded happens a lot. You feel a bit off. Not quite there. Or completely over-excited. You've lost touch with yourself. Lost touch with the earth. Lost touch with the…
Why intelligence and sensitivity go hand in hand
Imagine a computer with thousands, nay, millions of input channels. It needs a pretty big processor to handle all that incoming data, right? Well, the same goes for your mind.…
Intuition: what it isn’t
Ah, intuition. The word itself means many things to many people. Here are some of its guises, and some clarification of what intuition and intuitive can mean. Having an…
Sensitive insensitive
Have you ever noticed how it's very often the most insensitive people who are the most sensitive? How they can be insensitive to others feelings but are really sensitive themselves?…