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Essays and Articles
An archive of written posts exploring themes and topics through the lens of high sensitivity and creativity.
Why Buying The Best Tools Too Soon Might Cause Your Dream to Fail
Whether it’s advice about the best tools, online tutorials, or apps and software, there are so many resources to help us make stuff happen in…
What Did You Hear Me Say?
The teacher turned to the child and said calmly, “I need to be able to speak to the class and I find it distracting when…
Chasing The Mirage – You Don’t Have To Drink The Whole River
There is an old story that tells of a person wandering on a hot day. After a while, they became overcome by thirst and began…
Do You Find It Unsettling To Feel “Seen” By Others?
I don’t know about you, but I find it strangely unsettling when I feel seen by the world around me. Have you ever had one…
Making Peace With Our Internal Abandoned Villages
Many of us move around life carrying all sorts of abandoned hopes, relationships, and projects. If we don’t make peace with them they can weigh…
Anchors and Sensitive Adventure
Adventure begins where certainty ends—but for highly sensitive people, it’s rarely about reckless abandon. It’s the subtle art of knowing when to anchor and when…
Do We Sometimes Take Ourselves Too Seriously?
Laughter is a shock absorber. It can create a sense of flex and bounce in a harsh and unrelenting world. When things feel heavy it…
Heart Hunters of the World, Create!
Note from Andy: Massive thank you to Zoie Holzknecht for sharing this post with us. It’s for the heart hunters of the world! “Thoth, the…
A Voice of My Own
There’s a particular moment from my childhood that lives vividly in my memory. A group of boys in my class at school decided to block my path and insist that I say a word as loud as I possibly could. It seemed important to them that I prove I had a voice.
I remember being scared and confused. I also remember holding my ground and (silently) refusing to do it until they gave up and walked away. But this was one of the first times I realised that my natural state was not a good fit for the world I lived in. I was too quiet, too sensitive, too… not like everyone else.
Highly Sensitive People and The Seasons of Change
During seasons of change, a highly sensitive person may need extra space and time for the deep processing that naturally occurs as the nervous system…