As the trait of high sensitivity becomes better known, naturally there are many people talking about it on the Internet, often with websites and YouTube dedicated to your sensitivity or your child’s. Many people and entire institutes now offer services, courses, or books, often with new ways of thinking about or working with high sensitivity. […]
Alanis Morissette, Love, Emotions,
You, and Me
Some of you are probably curious about how Alanis Morissette is taking part in the film being made on HSPs. Or, if this is news to you, how she came to be in the film. Alanis reached out to Will and Diana Harper, the Director and Producer (my email address being notoriously difficult to find, […]
On Having an Invisible yet Definitive Part of Yourself
Have you ever felt invisible as an HSP? Of course you have. You are. I have sometimes said that high sensitivity affects all aspects of life, social and otherwise, as much as one’s gender affects one’s life, but gender is visible and sensitivity is invisible. Other examples of fairly permanent characteristics that are largely invisible […]
Director and Producer of Sensitive: The Untold Story
Guest blog post by Will and Diana Harper On Sept 19, 2014, our Kickstarter supporters and a few private donors made it possible for us to start what has become the first feature film on HSPs. Two months later and thousands of miles; 15 cities; probably 50 planes, trains, and automobiles; and close to 40 […]
What to Do with Your Fear When the Best Things in Life May Be Dangerous
I wanted to write something for all of you about my Colorado River trip by raft from one end of the Grand Canyon to the other. I wanted to tell you, of course, about the majesty of the place, the many birds and animals, the joy of simply being outside day and night for 13 […]
Time to Stretch
Welcome to our revised hsperson.com website and new format for Comfort Zone as a blog. We hope it pleases you. The theme of this first post is stretching and changing, for sure. We all need to change when it is time, but HSPs generally do not like risks, and therefore do not like change. Even […]
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Why HSPs’ Tendency to Worry about the Real Meaning of our Life may Make Us Healthier
It’s Healthier to Live a Life Full of Meaning than a Life Full of Pleasure Originally published in Comfort Zone Newsletter: June 2014 The other research I want to tell you about is not about HSPs directly, but I think you will find it very pertinent. Often I hear HSPs question why, compared to non-HSPs, […]
New research on the brain activity of HSPs
HSPs’ Brain Activation, Compared to Non-HSPs, Indicates More Empathy and Awareness Originally published in Comfort Zone Newsletter: June 2014 Big news! A very important scientific article about the brain activity of HSPs has just been published. After four years of work by six authors (Bianca P. Acevedo; me; my husband, Arthur Aron; Matthew-Donald Sangster; Nancy […]
Would you be willing to sit at the bedside of a dying stranger and comfort them?
Originally published in Comfort Zone Newsletter: March 2014 When I wrote the 60 or so items that eventually became the 27 items of the HSP Scale, the title of this article was one of the items. Obviously I wrote it because I thought HSPs would be likely to agree with it, and I was right. […]