As I began doing with the last email, I begin this blog by sharing some of the latest research. My plan is that the second half of each blog is going to be more personal. This time it will contain the second of my two holiday gifts. But here is the latest research and my […]
Mental Health Awareness Month – Supporting HSPs & Highly Sensitive Youths – Guest Blog by Alane Freund, MS, MA
Guest Blog by Alane Freund, MS, MA May is mental health awareness month. For 2023, the Mental Health Awareness month campaign “is focused on how surroundings impact mental health, and we are calling for individuals to look around, look within.” In 1949, Mental Health America (MHA) designated May as Mental Health Month to raise awareness […]
2021 Research on HSPs
I looked through the website and realized I have not written a blog about the research since 2017! I truly apologize. At this point I can hardly keep up, because there are so many research studies on high sensitivity (a.k.a. Sensory Processing Sensitivity, which by the way has nothing to do with Sensory Processing Disorder). […]
If You Can Manage It, Be Sure to Do What You Want
As some of you know, I took off three months from my usual tasks (mostly answering emails, doing interviews, speaking, etc.) to focus more on writing and research. I was surprised by how happy it made me. Almost ecstatic! I realize that I thrive on being creative, as do most HSPs, and I have not […]
Introversion, Extroversion and the Highly Sensitive Person
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 […]