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Relationships

Welcome to the Haven Library Relationships Archive

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Articles, discussions, and resources exploring the joys and challenges of navigating interpersonal relationships as highly sensitive people.

The Urge to Explain, Justify, and Tidy Feelings

Mon December 8, 2025

When do you sense the urge to explain, justify, or tidy what you feel? This was our question for the week, and in this week’s…

Wandering on the edge of usefulness

Sun November 30, 2025

Have you ever noticed that you are still doing or using the same thing you did years ago, with no apparent reason? Some things naturally…

A Book For Sensitive Children (with Judith Orloff)

Tue October 7, 2025

In this episode of The Gentle Rebel Podcast , I speak with psychiatrist and author Dr Judith Orloff about her new book, The Highly Sensitive…

Awareness and Alertness: How the Soundtrack of Our Nervous System Shapes Our Reality

Sat September 20, 2025

In the main episode this week, we explored the links between hypervigilance and high sensitivity. In this supplementary private podcast, we are digging deeper into…

Icebreakers and Social Sensitivity

Sun June 15, 2025

“Let’s go around the room and introduce ourselves with your name and something interesting about you”. Does that icebreaker moment fill you with joy? If…

What is a Gentle Rebel?

Fri January 5, 2024

Gentleness is an act of rebellion in a hostile world. But what does it mean to be a “gentle rebel”?

Who Can We Trust?

Fri October 20, 2023

When navigating a season or environment of change, we need things we can trust. But what does it mean to trust someone or something? Where…

The Haven Phrasebook

Wed August 2, 2023

As a community grows, a shared language naturally emerges. Here you will find definitions for some of the words you might come across around here.

Embracing The Space Between Us (with Brigid Russell)

Fri July 21, 2023

“If we are going to understand and appreciate each other’s differences, then we need to be able to trust the space between us.” Charlie Jones…

Book Club | The Courage To Be Disliked (Kishimi and Koga)

Fri May 5, 2023

We recently finished reading The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life, and Achieve Real Happiness by Kishimi and Koga in…

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