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On Making Decisions

November 15, 2013 By Elaine 2 Comments

Originally published in Comfort Zone Newsletter: November 2013 Do you have trouble making decisions? I do, and it seems to be true of most HSPs. Indeed, having made many difficult ones in my life, I joke that I have “decision trauma” from truly agonizing over some especially painful choices, in which whatever I did would […]

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Strengthening Your Decisions Through “Cardiac Exercise”

August 28, 2005 By Elaine Leave a Comment

Originally published in Comfort Zone Newsletter: August 2005. No, I don’t have in mind aerobics. This is subtler. Because I had a perfectly harmless but pretty intense (to an HSP) heart arrhythmia in conjunction with the lung infection this spring (which I’m now over), I reread a book called The Heart’s Code by Paul Pearsall, Ph.D. (Broadway, […]

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Kate Bender, MS, APRN, ANP-BC Vea Health Consulting, 191 Main St. Old Saybrook, CT 06475 Phone:860-391-0474 | Fax:8607449894 | Kbender@veahealthconsulting.com| https://www.veahealthconsulting.com/ Kate Bender, APRN is a seasoned ANCC board certified Adult Nurse Practitioner with over a decade of clinical practice in numerous settings. By looking at the whole picture and compassionately translating what feels overwhelming into […]

Coping with Uncertainty

July 13, 2020 By Elaine 51 Comments

I do not have to tell HSPs that we are now mired in personal and global uncertainty, because we hate uncertainty.  We always process decisions deeply (e.g., struggle), and it’s hardest when there are so many uncertainties and future influences that we can think of all too well but cannot control. Right now, almost everything […]

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Graceful Boundaries, Part III – Controlling your Boundaries is all about Volume

May 15, 2019 By Elaine 33 Comments

Being kind yet clear, compassionate yet self-protective, honest yet discreet—it really does require grace.  But to be clear:  There’s nothing graceful about having no control over your boundaries. We HSPs like to consider the needs of others and the situation before we pursue our own wishes. “I wonder what the rest of you are needing […]

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Graceful Boundaries – Part I

January 22, 2019 By Elaine 15 Comments

While working on the movie Sensitive and in Love, I was looking at the book Highly Sensitive People in Love and noticed I never discussed boundaries directly, although the subject was there often.  Many people now are writing about HSPs and boundaries, so I think I will chime in, first with the basics, then something […]

Filed Under: Emotions, General, Relationships Tagged With: boundaries, highly sensitive people, highly sensitive person, HSP

Introversion, Extroversion and the Highly Sensitive Person

April 24, 2018 By Elaine 123 Comments

Guest Blog By: Jacquelyn Strickland, LPC According to the documentary Sensitive: The Untold Story, there are 1.4 billion highly sensitive people (HSPs) in the world (15-20% of the population). As Elaine Aron’s research has shown, 30% of that 15-20% of the HSP population are sensitive extroverts – or approximately 420 million HSPs.  Unfortunately, due in great part […]

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Eight Ways to Take Care of Yourself, Please, While I’m Gone (and Beyond)

July 16, 2016 By Elaine 128 Comments

For about two years I have been planning a six-month sabbatical beginning this summer, a good space of time completely “off the grid.” Some serious downtime. I am enjoying excellent health so it has nothing to do with that. It is simply that some shifts in my life and my husband’s have allowed this for […]

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Pennsylvania

Lauren Bartholomew, Psy.D 518 Kimberton Road, #108, Phoenixville PA 19460 610-839-7391 | Lauren@perceptivepsych.io |  https://www.perceptivepsych.io/ Hi, I’m Dr. Lauren Bartholomew. As a Highly Sensitive Person myself, I understand that moving through the world with high sensitivity means moving through the world differently—and that fully understanding and deeply respecting our differences can bring us from an […]

FAQ: Is Sensory Processing (or Integration) Disorder (SPD) the same as Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS)?

Answered by Elaine Aron, Ph.D., Barbara Allen-Williams, and Jacquelyn Strickland, LPC No, they are not the same, although the confusion is understandable. Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS, HSP, or Highly Sensitive Person) is not a condition, a disorder, or a diagnosis. It is a neutral trait that evolved in 20% of the human population and many […]

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