Originally published in Comfort Zone Newsletter: August 2013 Knowledge about sensory-processing sensitivity has been slow to enter the business world. That is changing with New Zealander, Janine Ramsey (now living in Australia). I met Janine in Santa Barbara at an HSP gathering, where she showed me a presentation she was hoping to give to companies on […]
My Next Step Was a Walk–with 2500 Others
Originally published in Comfort Zone Newsletter: August 2013 Saturday, August 3, I walked two miles with 2500 other people through a struggling town and then beside an ugly, smelly oil refinery and up to its gate–not my usual hike. It was part of 350.org‘s Summer Heat action, all around the U.S., to inform our government, […]
How Do You Recognize an HSP?
Originally published in Comfort Zone Newsletter: August 2013 Last May, while I was teaching at the University of Bamberg in the business department, I was asked how an employer or manager would recognize an HSP without giving them the HSP Self-Test. You can’t just ask, they pointed out, because many employees would be cautious about […]
A Review of Attachment Play by Aletha Solter, Ph. D.
Originally published in Comfort Zone Newsletter: May 2013 Aletha Solter, HSP, is a Swiss/American who studied with Jean Piaget and earned her Ph.D. at University of California, Santa Barbara. Aletha is a highly creative woman. She wrote a book called Tears and Tantrums, in which she suggested that infants and all people should be allowed […]
Five Strategies to Prevent your Sensitive Son from Being Bullied
by Ted Zeff, Ph.D. Originally published in Comfort Zone Newsletter: May 2013 Did you know that 20 percent of the population has a sensitive nervous system and the trait is equally divided between males and females? Therefore, 20 percent of all males are sensitive, or one out of every five boys has a finely tuned […]
Hotels and HSPs
Originally published in Comfort Zone Newsletter: May 2013 Keeping with the travel theme, I’ll share with you what I have learned about having a good hotel experience. Most of this is about noise. We’re usually light sleepers, so it’s a major consideration. There are many, many websites on finding good hotels, especially at good prices. […]
Vacation Time and Friends: Suggestions for When They Visit or When You Travel Together
Originally published in Comfort Zone Newsletter: May 2013 Summer is a time when we frequently have house guests or travel with friends, and some of these will not be HSPs. Here are a few thoughts for dealing with the sticky spots (which can happen with other HSPs as well, of course). When Friends Visit You […]
An Adventure of the Heart with European HSPs
Originally published in Comfort Zone Newsletter: May 2013 As some of you know, I do not do a great deal of public speaking. Although I enjoy it, I am also very introverted. It seems that the larger the group, the more painfully over stimulated I can feel afterwards. However, in the last year I have […]
My Next Step–What’s Yours?
Originally published in Comfort Zone Newsletter: February 2013 In the last newsletter I wrote about my dream in which I was told to speak to HSPs about the next step in one’s life, a step that should be carefully thought out to reflect one’s authentic self. I wonder if that article moved any of you […]
A Few Suggestions for “Regulating” Fear, Grief, Anger, and Joy
Originally published in Comfort Zone Newsletter: February 2013 “Emotional regulation” is a fancy psychological term that refers to any method that you might try, consciously or not, to change the otherwise spontaneous flow of your emotions. By this definition, you might want to increase, prolong, or decrease a feeling. Because the human brain is designed […]