Resources to inspire, equip, and encourage gentle rebels, deep thinkers, and highly sensitive people

Serenity

Panic, urgency, and alertness narrow our vision to see what we expect, not necessarily what is true. Calm acceptance helps us see clearly and opens up a pool of options we can choose from. The latter is the foundation of serenity.

Serenity is a state of being that doesn’t come from escaping life’s difficulties but from moving through them with acceptance and grace.

Serenity is also an important theme for highly sensitive people, who often deeply feel the weight of the world’s noise and pressures. For those who tend to absorb others' emotions or feel a strong sense of responsibility for keeping and maintaining peace, exploring serenity offers a way to release the burdens that don’t belong to us. It is an invitation to let go of the constant need to fix, please, or shield against every discomfort and instead find grounding within.

In embracing serenity, highly sensitive people discover that true peace isn’t a break from life but an intentional way of being in it. It allows us to soften rigid expectations of ourselves and others, cultivating compassion and resilience over time. This inner steadiness reminds us that even in a world that can feel noisy and chaotic, we can still be grounded, present, and enough—just as we are.

Serenity Archive

A Handful of Mustard Seeds

A Handful of Mustard Seeds (A Parable For Serenity)

Serenity might feel like an ideal state, a place where we’ve risen above the chaos and messiness of life. But true serenity doesn’t come when…

Accept That You Are Accepted

Acceptance and Surrender as Foundations of Serenity

“You are accepted. You are accepted, accepted by that which is greater than you and the name of which you do not know. Do not…

Self-Compassion

Why Is Self-Compassion So Hard to Practice?

Self-compassion can be difficult. Many of us have learned to be much harder on ourselves than anyone else. We judge, blame, label, demand, punish, and…