#HighlySensitivePeople #Introverts: The Healthcare System Is Testing Me–Here’s What I’m Learning

#HighlySensitivePeople #Introverts: The Healthcare System Is Testing Me — Here’s What I’m Learning Nobody gets through life without facing adversity. It might be illness, losing someone you love, financial struggles, unemployment, trauma from the past, or unexpected situations that completely change your daily life. Right now, I’m personally experiencing one of those challenging times while navigating the healthcare system. It's bad enough that you're feeling sick, but it's beyond frustrating when you have to deal with all the bureaucratic miscommunications that go along with it! How would you feel if you had to deal with a large system of administration that is characterized by strict rules, multiple layers of management, and excessive paperwork? And it has reminded me of something important: Being highly sensitive does…

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#HighlySensitivePeople #Introverts: What Are You Taking for Granted This Memorial Day?

#HighlySensitivePeople #Introverts: What Are You Taking for Granted This Memorial Day? One thing I’ve noticed about life—and especially about being a highly sensitive person—is that we often feel pain deeply… but forget to fully feel gratitude with the same intensity. Our minds naturally focus on stress, problems, disappointments, and what’s missing. We replay what went wrong. We worry about what could go wrong next. And slowly, without realizing it, we begin taking meaningful things for granted simply because they’ve become familiar. Memorial Day makes me think about that. For many people, Memorial Day signals the beginning of summer: Barbecues. Vacations. Retail sales. Time off. Trips to the beach. There’s nothing wrong with enjoying those things. But sometimes I wonder if our constant search for distraction…

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#HighlySensitivePeople #Introverts: Is hardship bad for us?

#HighlySensitivePeople #Introverts: Is hardship bad for us? It's impossible to have a life without hardship. The quality of our lives depends on how we handle hardship. Here are some quotes to give you a different perspective about hardship: "Life is a series of punches. It presents a lot of challenges. It presents a lot of hardship, but the people who are able to take those punches and able to move forward are the ones that really do have a lot of success and have a lot of joy in their life and have a lot of stories to tell, too."...Josh Turner "The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length…

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#HighlySensitivePeople #Introverts: Do you need some realistic ways to start the New Year?

#HighlySensitivePeople #Introverts: Do you need some realistic ways to start the new year?   As a highly sensitive, introverted person who has lived with social anxiety most of my life, I’ve learned something the hard way: Big, bold resolutions often feel like heavy backpacks I’m expected to carry all year. I start with hope… and end with exhaustion. What’s helped me more is an old New Year’s tradition shared by Dear Abby, inspired by Al-Anon, called “Just for Today.” Not a plan to fix everything. Just a compass for this one day. Here are the ones that still guide me: Just for today, I will live through this day only. I won’t brood over yesterday or obsess about tomorrow. I won’t demand that I solve my…

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