#HighlySensitivePeople #Introverts: Are You Overlooking Your Best Qualities? As a highly sensitive person and introvert, I've spent a good part of my life learning to understand myself better. One thing I've discovered is how easy it is to focus on what we think is wrong with us while overlooking the very qualities that make us special. Have you ever done that yourself? I know I have! Here's what I've learned from my own experience: Sometimes, our greatest strengths are the very things we take for granted. Why are we so quick to criticize ourselves but so reluctant to give ourselves credit? Maybe we dismiss our talents because they come naturally to us, or we believe that unless we do something perfectly, it doesn't count. Here's…

#HighlySensitivePeople #Introverts: What If Being Different Was Never the Problem? For years, I thought my goal was to become more "normal." Talk more. Worry less. Stop feeling everything so deeply. Blend in. I believed that if I could just fix those things, life would finally get easier. I was wrong. The problem was never that I was different. The problem was believing that different automatically meant defective. As a highly sensitive person, an introvert, and someone who has lived with social anxiety, I spent years measuring myself against people who were wired completely differently than I was. Every comparison convinced me that I needed to change who I was instead of understanding how I was wired. I felt different as a child. I was tall…