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- Our Body is Nature
A friend of mine, Edit Selmeczi wrote beautifully about how we may loose our ways and what can help us back. You can work with Edit online to learn Focusing – the best way I learned also to find my way back to the most authentic and joyful version of me. Our Body is Nature … - Important design features for Highly Sensitive PeopleI am delighted to share with you the preliminary results of Helena Seget’s pilot survey she conducted on design features for public spaces that are important for highly sensitive people. My delight is twofold, as I am rejoicing in the idea that HSPs views will be taken into consideration when designing public spaces and also …
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- Psychiatric Drugs for Healing?I recommend watching this important exploration about the current wide-spread use of psychiatric drugs and the medicalisation of normal human distress. This 38 mins long video is really worth watching, if you are using or thinking about using psychiatric drugs for your recovery. In this interview, according to the world’s leading investigators of the long term effects …
- Inspiration for difficult timesI am really grateful for coming across this poem that resonated so much with me – thanks to Alane Freund for sharing it on Facebook! I felt it was the perfect inspiration for anyone who struggles in the world right now. This could be specially helpful, if you are highly sensitive person, so you feel much …
- For All Sensitive Souls Out ThereIf you feel that your soul is more sensitive than the average the world often can feel just too harsh and too loud to bear. For people, who often been labelled “too sensitive”, it can be life changing to find out that their sensitivity is not a weakness, or some kind of disorder, but in fact …
- Anne Wilson Schaef – blending spirituality with scienceSpirituality with science? Many of us may believe this to be an impossible paradox. Some of us think of this as a possible way forward from the current crisis of our modern ways. What made me ponder on this, is the sad news that one of my heroes, Anne Wilson Schaef has just passed away…😞 A psychotherapist with …
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- Safer Ride with Intense Feelings – Keeping Focusing SafeFocusing is a gentle, yet potent way to heal past hurts and find steps towards a more fulfilling life. You can practise Focusing not just with a Focusing Practitioner, but also on your own or with a Focusing Partner. As most people know, who tried therapy or meditation – we can encounter rather intense feelings when we look within. With some …
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- Stop the Vicious Cycle of Anxiety – Listen to Your Feelings InsteadJust like all our feelings, fear and anxiety is our natural inner response to something that is happening in our outer or inner environment. As such, it is helpful to understand its important role of giving us messages about something that seems dangerous to us in some way. Instead of being afraid of our fear itself …
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- Consuming less news will make you happierLearning ways to reduce stimulation levels in our life is essential for keeping calm. This is even more important for highly sensitive people, who can overwhelm more easily with too much coming in. A good solution for avoiding overwhelm can be restricting the amount of news that we are exposed to. I would like to share with you an excellent article from …
- Finding Joy That Lasts – Ideas for a Joyful LifeFinding lasting joy in our lives can be a challenge when we see that the world is full of suffering. This can be especially true, if you engage in watching/reading daily news, which typically focuses on wars, disasters and heart-wrenching stories that cause anxiety, distress and feeling hopeless. According to researcher and psychology professor, Mary McNaughton-Cassill, daily …
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- Article about Therapy for Highly Sensitive PeopleI am very happy to report about a new article published in the latest Sussex Counselling newsletter about therapy for highly sensitive people Why is this such a good news? The innate trait of sensory processing sensitivity (the clinical term for high sensitivity) can be found in 15-20% of people. This means that it is present …
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- Overwhelm? – Time to Bounce BackAny time is a good time to start contemplating shaping your life to fit who you are. This is important for anyone struggling with overwhelm, and especially if you are highly sensitive. The world perhaps never needed more sensitive souls, who are brave enough to be themselves. Inspirational people, who are willing to demonstrate more meaningful ways to …
- OK, so I am an HSP – Now What?Discovering, understanding and coming to terms with the idea that you are a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) usually doesn’t happen overnight. When you first realise that you have Sensory Processing Sensitivity (the scientific term of high sensitivity), it may not be clear what does this really mean and how you may benefit from this new “label”. …