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Email Newsletters 2004-2014

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June 2014 Articles:

New research on the brain activity of HSPs
Why HSPs’ tendency to worry about the real meaning of our life may make us healthier

March 2014 Article:

Would you be willing to sit at the bedside of a dying stranger and comfort them?

November 2013 Articles:

Why this Might be Nearly the Last Issue of Comfort Zone
A Brief Reminder for the Holidays
An HSP (me) Visits New Zealand
On Making Decisions
Discussing Your Trait with Therapists

August 2013 Articles:

How Do You Recognize an HSP?
My Next Step was a Walk–with 2500 Others
“Your Sensitive Style”–Something Up from Down Under

May 2013 Articles:

An Adventure of the Heart with European HSPs
Vacation Time and Friends: Suggestions for You
HSPs and Hotels
Ted Zeff on Preventing Your Sensitive Son being Bullied
A Review of Attachment Play by Aletha Solter

February 2013 Articles:

Fulfillment of a Dream–Vantage Sensitivity
A Few Suggestions for “Regulating” Fear, Grief, Anger, and Joy
My Next Step–What’s Yours?

November 2012 Articles:

Four Words: Downtime, Solitude, Silence, and Loneliness
About Crying Easily
What’s Your Next Step? (I Was Told to Ask.)

August 2012 Articles:

HSP Wealth: For Some HSPs, Less Can Be More
Relationships: Tips for HSPs’ Less Sensitive Friends and Partners
Our Spiritual Life: HSPs, Meditation, and Enlightenment, Part II
A Movie You Might Enjoy: The Last Wave

May 2012 Articles:

Our Spiritual Life: HSPs, Meditation, and Enlightenment, Part I
Coping Corner: HSPs and Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and Other Illnesses Perhaps Related to “Central Sensitization”
Coping: More on HSPs and Pain

February 2012 Articles:

Coping Corner: HSPs and Pain
Our Spiritual Life: Martin Buber’s Great Gift to Us

November 2011 Articles:

Film: Two Movies: Two Ways that our Culture Imagines Sensitive Men and Their Relationship with Women
Our Spiritual Life: Part IV: Perhaps You Would Like to Meet Your Ally?
Travel: Easy Traveling for the Highly Sensitive Person

August 2011 Articles:

Reading : About that Psychology Today Article/Why We Are Sometimes SO Emotional
Research: Recent Genetic Findings
Our Spiritual Life : The Priestly Part of Our Being “Priestly Advisors.” Part III: The Lens of Personal Experience

May 2011 Articles:

HSP Travel :  Going through (In)Security
Our Spiritual Life: The Priestly Part of our Being “Priestly Advisors.” Part II: Individuation
Let the HSP Beware : What about All those Websites?

February 2011 Articles:

Our Spiritual Life: The Priestly Part of our Being “Priestly Advisors” Part I.
With Depth: Learning about HSPs’ Complexes from Joseph the Dreamer.
Books: What I’m Reading.

November 2010 Articles:

Coping Corner: HSPs and Divorce
Research Report: Head for your Nearest Sensory Isolation Flotation Tank
Book Review: Taking the Anomalous out of “Anomalous Perceptions”

August 2010 Articles:

Research Report: HSPs Are More Easily Bored in Their Relationships
Sensitive Men: Healing the Highly Sensitive Male by Ted Zeff, Ph.D.
International News: Israeli HSPs Meet in Tel Aviv

May 2010 Articles:

HSP Living: Sensitive Summer Travel
Appreciating Sensitivity: Make Full Use of Your Sensitivity – Listening
With Depth: On “Inner Sensation Seeking”

February 2010 Articles:

Sensitive Men: A Love Letter to Highly Sensitive Men
Coping Corner : A Few “Happy” Things Regarding Depression
New Book: The Story behind The Undervalued Self

November 2009 Articles:

Gift of Time: Rebels for Time Spaciousness
Appreciating Sensitivity: We’re Simply More Responsive
New Book: The Undervalued Self, Coming March 10

August 2009 Articles:

Coping Corner: Grief, Sensitivity, and Beyond
Your Questions Answered: How Does Sensitivity Differ from Autism, Asperger’s Syndrome, and the “Autistic Spectrum”
Story: The Princess and the Pea: A Story for Us
News: HSP Wins Car for Being Highly Sensitive

May 2009 Articles:

Questions Answered: Power in the Workplace
Another Question Answered: Are HSPs More Suggestible?
Insights: What Kind of Sensitive Are You?

February 2009 Articles:

For Highly Sensitive Teenagers, Part V: School Troubles
HSP Living: More Answers to Some of Your Questions
Coping Corner: HSPs in Difficult Times

August 2008 Articles:

For Highly Sensitive Teenagers, Part III: Dealing with Your Strong Feelings
HSP Living: Back to School: HSPs and their Education
With Depth: Archetypal Vulnerability or Availability?

May 2008 Articles:

For Highly Sensitive Teenagers, Part II: Dealing with the Rest of Your Family
Reading: What HSPs Need to Know About Why Good People Turn Evil
Coping Corner: Sensitive Men and Testosterone

February 2008 Articles:

Research: Three Studies of HSPs Presented this Summer at the American Psychological Association
Coping Corner: HSPs in a Winter Wonderland (Not)
For Highly Sensitive Teenagers, Part I: Feeling Different

November 2007 Articles:

HSP Living: Something We Do Well – Enjoying the Subtle Pleasures in Life
Coping Corner: HSPs and the Accumulation of Birthdays
Sensitive (Mental) Health: HSPs and Trauma

August 2007 Articles:

Sensitivity in Culture: A Future Headline: “HSPs, the Key to Human Survival”
HSP Living: Highly Sensitive Attire – The Way We Dress
HSPs in Nature: Another Way to Receive Your Needed Dose of Nature – Day Camping

May 2007 Articles:

Summer Reading for HSPs: Cather’s One of Ours, Mitchell’s Black Swan Green, and Forrest’s Help is on its Way
Coping Corner: A Meditation for HSPs on Criticism, the Killer
Sensitive Children: Working With Sensitive, Withdrawing Children By Jan Kristal

February 2007 Articles:

Latest Research: What HSPs See: Our Brain Is Not as Easily Confused by Culture and Context
HSP Living: What HSPs Can Give and Get from Animals and Babies
Book Review : Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior – by Elliott Sober and David Sloan Wilson, Harvard University Press, 1998

November 2006 Articles:

Coping Corner: What to Do about Extravert Envy
Sensitivity and Work: HSPs and “Bullying” in the Work Place–Changes are Coming
Parenting Sensitive Children: Enjoying the Holidays with Your Highly Sensitive Child (Inner Child Included)

August 2006 Articles:

Looking Back: How the Concept of HSP (Quietly) Entered the Public Consciousness
Coping Corner: Thoughts on Vacations and Travel
Book Review : The Temperament Perspective by Jan Kristal

May 2006 Articles:

Personality and Temperament: The Highly Sensitive Person Who Is Also A High Sensation Seeker
Coping Corner: Jet Travel And HSPs
With Depth: Good Grief

February 2006 Articles:

Reflections on Research: Ignored No Longer: New Interest in Us, New Theories about Us
Parenting Sensitive Children: Growing Up Gifted Is Not Easy
Sensitive Emotion: HSPs and the Problem of Bearing an Unbearable Emotion

November 2005 Articles:

Sensitive Spirituality: The Highly Sensitive Person and the Numinous
Coping Corner: Teaching HSCs And HSPs to Swim, Drive, or Anything Else
Sensitive (Mental) Health: HSPs and Burnout

August 2005 Articles:

Let’s Review: The Benefits of Being Highly Sensitive, for Ourselves and Our World
Coping Corner: Strengthening Your Decisions Through “Cardiac Exercise”
With Depth: The Shadow Side To High Sensitivity

May/June 2005 Articles:

From the Field: How the HSPs Organized Themselves in Holland by Rijn de Jonge
Sensitive Children: How Can We Talk About Sensitivity to Children (For Example, to Sixth Graders)?
With Depth: A Book Review Leads to a Lesson about the Body
More Books: Three Quick Reviews

February/March 2005 Articles:

Coping Corner: The Highly Sensitive Parent
Sensitive Health: What To Say To The Professionals Who Doubt The Whole Idea Of High Sensitivity
With Depth: Seeing the Big Picture What We Do as Priestly Advisors

November/December 2004:

Coping Corner: “Worry is Faith in the Devil”–Containing Fear the HSP Way
With Depth: Healing the Split
The Highly Sensitive Child (and Adults, Too): Is Sensitivity the Same as Being Gifted?

August 2004:

Loneliness and Shedding the Protective Persona–Reflections on a Weekend with Twenty HSPs
Reflections on Research: HSPs Have Stronger Emotional Reactions (I know, “Big news.”)
Sensitive Spirituality: Some New Thoughts to Add to Last Issue’s Discussion of Enlightenment

May 2004:

Sensitive Spirituality: HSPs, Meditation, and Enlightenment
Sensitive (Mental) Health: What is the Relationship Between Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and High Sensitivity?

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Announcing the release of our documentary Sensitive Lovers: A Deeper Look into their Relationships

In this documentary, Art Aron (well-known love researcher) and Elaine Aron provide the science and advice behind the film Sensitive and in Love. Learn more about Sensitive Lovers here.

Sensitive and In Love

A feature film, focuses on what perhaps matters most: how high sensitivity affects your relationships with loved ones. Learn more and purchase the Sensitive and In Love here.

Sensitive: The Untold Story

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