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
Polyvagal Theory and The Highly Sensitive Nervous System (with Justin Sunseri)
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 Really (Don’t) Want To
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…
Book Club | The Wisdom of Insecurity (Alan Watts)
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,…
How HSPs Can Handle Conflict Without Losing Themselves (with Konrad Benjamin)
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…
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…
Finding Space For Deep Processing In a Shallow World
Deep processing is a core aspect of high sensitivity. But processing is an important thing for all of us to do. And it’s not easy…
What Can You Do If You Feel Like You’re Drifting Through Life?
Sometimes drift comes through the endless pursuit of goals we hope will make us happy. Or it might come as we passively float along the…
The Big Difference Between Giving Up and Quitting
Quitting and giving up may seem the same but they’re not. They are two different forms of letting go. Quitting is our decision to let…
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