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Being a Highly Sensitive Person Is a Scientific Personality Trait. Here’s What It Feels Like.

By Juli Fraga — 2019

Written off as an odd duck, no one mentioned that I was most likely a “highly sensitive person,” or HSP — someone with a sensitive nervous system who’s deeply affected by the subtleties in their environment.

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Helping Sensitive Kids Manage Their Emotions

What can parents do to help especially sensitive children learn to manage their emotions and cope?

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6 Emotions that Plague Highly Sensitive People Trying to Grow a Business

For a large part of my life, I wondered why I was so different from everyone else. When I started my first business, I wondered why other entrepreneurs did not seem to struggle with the emotional issues I was having on a daily basis. It wasn’t until a few years ago that I first heard of HSP.

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Poetry and High Sensitivity

Pearl S. Buck, (1892-1973), recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 and of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938, said the following about Highly Sensitive People: “The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive...."

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5 Superpowers of Highly Sensitive People

"Sensitivity is my tree trunk, my flower stem, and my nucleus. It’s my belly and my heart, and it’s my gently rounded cosmic edge. I have found that it can either lead me to a wild field of flowers, or to my cold, damp little fortress." - Tanya Markul

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Tanya Markul
2019
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Highly Sensitive People

When research psychologist and psychotherapist Elaine Aron published The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You, many people felt a jolt of recognition.

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Survival Skills for Highly Sensitive People

Are you among the 20 percent of Americans who are highly sensitive? Here are some self-care strategies for you.

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The Key Differences & Desires of an Introvert, Empath & Highly Sensitive Person.

I coach and work with many clients who think they are “weak” because they are an introvert, empath, or an HSP (Highly Sensitive Person). They feel misplaced in this world, and others struggle to understand them.

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Céline Levy
2020
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An Ode to Highly Sensitive People

I have never intentionally killed anything in my life. Not a gnat. Not a fly. Not a spider. I used to make my parents stop the car after it rained so I could move worms out of the road. I am terrified of spiders, but I always summon the courage to move them outside rather than kill them.

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Brandilyn Tebo
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Getting Through Life as Highly Sensitive People Without Putting Out Our Flame

It took me about 26 years of blindly exploring the deepest pits of life to unfold the reality of who I’ve always been, with all the tragedy and great triumphs that came with having this personality. I am almost 30 now.

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