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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 Still Life

Book Club | A Still Life (Josie George)

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What do you think of when you hear the words A Still Life?A bowl of fruit? A serene person, undisturbed by the world’s noise. Stagnation…

Wintering Book Club

Embracing Wintering on Serenity Island

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We just finished reading Wintering by Katherine May in the book club, and it has prompted me to reflect on the parallels between the book’s…

Serenity - Coming To Our Senses Kota

05 | Serenity (Coming To Our Senses)

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God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know…

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Anxiety, Custard, and the Meaning of Life (with Neil Hughes)

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Many know anxiety well, navigating the ups and downs with our inner critic always close by. Author and comedian Neil Hughes shares this path, using…

A Handful of Mustard Seeds

A Handful of Mustard Seeds (A Parable For Serenity)

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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

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“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…

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Polyvagal Theory and The Highly Sensitive Nervous System (with Justin Sunseri)

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Do you ever feel overwhelmed and confused by the unending conveyor belt of new labels, healing methods, and training programmes, all professing to be the…

Parts of Me

Parts of Me Really (Don’t) Want To

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There’s part of me that wants to stay and part of me that wants to go.Something in me loves to play, and something in me…

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Book Club | The Wisdom of Insecurity (Alan Watts)

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Seventy years after it was written, The Wisdom of Insecurity still carries a message for our time—this age of anxiety where things often feel urgent,…

Finding Serenity in a Divided World

How HSPs Can Handle Conflict Without Losing Themselves (with Konrad Benjamin)

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You don’t need me to tell you we live in divided times. This is especially true when it comes to beliefs, ideas, and opinions about…