The Complete Beginner’s Guide to the Highly Sensitive Trait
Were you described as sensitive growing up, reacting to life with big feelings? Have you been called “quiet” or “shy”, or told to come out…
Tag: Highly Sensitive Person
Is Something Holding You Back?
Join me on Saturday April 4th 2026 for a mini-zine making workshop around this theme of Expressing Your True Colours. What stops people expressing themselves…
Finding Ourselves in the Fog of a Hundred Shades of Beige
If you’ve looked up stuff about the trait of high sensitivity online, you’ve probably been confronted by a sea of pastel colours and a hundred…
HSP Colour Swatches
Are you a highly sensitive person? Do you ever hide or tone down your colours for others? As we begin our ‘true colours’ season, I…
The Challenges of Measuring High Sensitivity (with Andrew May)
What are the challenges when it comes to objectively measuring high sensitivity in people? In this week’s episode of The Gentle Rebel Podcast , I…
A Book For Sensitive Children (with Judith Orloff)
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
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…
Hypervigilance and High Sensitivity (The HSP Owner’s Guide)
In this week’s episode of The Gentle Rebel Podcast, we look at the relationship between sensory processing sensitivity and hypervigilance. As we finish our journey…
Overstimulation and High Sensitivity (The HSP Owner’s Guide)
This post elaborates on the ‘overstimulation’ section of The HSP Owner’s Guide. In this week’s episode of The Gentle Rebel Podcast, we look at the…
Why Common Self-Help Concepts Might Not Work For Highly Sensitive People
In this week’s Gentle Rebel Podcast, I introduced a new project where I’ll be exploring the history of self-help . Where it came from, the…