This morning I lost it. Rage came pouring into me like a sudden tsunami hitting my shore. I yelled. I screamed. I slammed down my dishes filled with a lovely breakfast waiting to offer me morning fuel. It felt absolutely huge, and while I knew a good portion of it was my own fight response […]
This is one of my bugaboos. I have known lots of folks who use their highly empathic nature as a shield…Oh no, I am SO SENSITIVE, TOO EMPATHIC…I CAN’T (fill in the blank…go there, do that, be around that person…) Does being an empath doom me to being more “fragile” in a highly stimulating world? […]
If You Suffer From High Sensitivity to Perceived Disapproval… When you have hyper-sensitivity to what’s coming from other folks, it can sure activate a lot of turmoil in your system. And… While we will seriously work on this later on, this is a rather funny story about an important lesson that this individual and I […]
I would guess that many of us who are Empaths and Highly Sensitive People (HSP) have felt heavy and overloaded when sensing and helping process the more extreme acts of destruction and harm in the world. It is certainly important to take care of yourself when your empathic nature takes on the task of helping […]
Trauma warning: This post references recent violent incidents in the U.S. If you have a personal history with violence and easily feel activated and retraumatized, you may wish to skip reading this post. My heart is in such pain! I find the daily news that greets me each morning lands with a heavy thud […]
The day after I wrote that last blog post, Handling What Is Too Hard To Handle, I drove to Barre, Massachusetts to join our 12-member faculty supporting close to 40 survivors and family members of mass shootings at the first Healing Through Love retreat. Initiated by folks from the Parkland community in Florida, the participants […]