Personal Transformation – Page 26 – The Highly Sensitive Person Publishing Company

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Highly Sensitive People: How Can You Increase Your Self-Awareness?

Post category:Self Awareness

Highly sensitive people have the unique ability to improve their self-awareness, by that I mean you can re-acquaint yourself with past experiences and emotions. How did you get where you are now? What can you do to get to where you want to be?

When looking back on your life, look at the positive experiences that you’ve had and what you’ve learned from them. Write them down and refer to them often.

We can all learn and grow from our negative experiences. As painful as they may be, take the lessons learned and use them as building blocks to growth. Don’t use your negative past as an excuse to not move forward in your life. (more…)

Highly Sensitive People: Should You Try To Change Yourself In These Difficult Times?

Post category:Challenge and Conflict Self Awareness Stress

As a highly sensitive person, should you try to change yourself? I’ve been asked this question countless times and have seen on various online forums that people want to get rid of their high sensitivity. They seem to feel that their high sensitivity puts them at a disadvantage in life.

I’ve never felt that way. I’ll admit that I always felt “different” from others, but I could never pinpoint exactly why. When I first learned the term “highly sensitive person,” it was a profound experience. Everything came into focus, and I finally had answers to questions I had been asking myself my whole life. (more…)

Highly Sensitive People: What Have You Been Putting Off?

Post category:Grief Motivation Procrastination

In this difficult time and good times too, there are some things that we put off. Last week, I was talking to a good friend and fellow highly sensitive person, Amy Barbato. She provided a guest post for her mother’s recipe on comfort food. https://thehighlysensitiveperson.com/highly-sensitive-people-can-you-use-some-comfort/ (more…)

Highly Sensitive People: Can You Use Some Comfort?

Post category:Happiness Wellness

As highly sensitive people, many of us are struggling to find peace and comfort as we cope with the daily onslaught of sad and distressing news ushered in by this pandemic. Although some of us are more directly impacted than others, we are ALL facing deep, collective pain. On that note, I wanted to share a guest article by fellow HSP and friend, Amy Barbato, who reflects on finding comfort through family food traditions that can nourish your mind, body, and soul!

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