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

Self-Compassion

Why Is Self-Compassion So Hard to Practice?

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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…

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Finding Space For Deep Processing In a Shallow World

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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…

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What Can You Do If You Feel Like You’re Drifting Through Life?

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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…

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The Big Difference Between Giving Up and Quitting

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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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Are You Overwhelmed By Too Much Information?

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The past few years have carried an exceptionally concentrated flow of difficult news. It can feel like too much information to hold at any one…

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Making Peace With Our Internal Abandoned Villages

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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…

Meditation

Simple Meditation for Highly Sensitive People (with David Johnson)

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Meditation is a broad term—it describes a set of tools that create the conditions for deeper awareness and focus. It doesn’t prescribe a single “right”…

Calm Amidst Chaos

Calm Amidst Chaos: A Companion Guide for Highly Sensitive People

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Do you need to find some calm in the chaos? The world doesn’t slow down—not for traffic, not for deadlines, and certainly not for those…