Resources to inspire, equip, and encourage gentle rebels, deep thinkers, and highly sensitive people
Tranquility
Tranquility is the sense of home we experience through anchoring environments and rituals. We feel at home when we perceive the world (or some part of it) as a safe and reliable place.
Exploring through a lens of tranquility helps us examine the contributing conditions for disturbance in different areas of life. We can nurture environments that assist our favoured outcomes (e.g. enhancing the possibilities for feeling, experiencing, and growing more desirable things in our lives), identifying and moving away from conditions that do the opposite.
What do you want to experience more?
How do your conditions (environments, routines, habits etc) currently help and hinder this desire?
Tranquility Archive
Toxic Positivity is a Permanent State of Temporary Discomfort
The internet is full of memes about positive thinking. I saw this quote a few days ago:“The only difference between a good day and a…
Physical Sensitivity (The HSP Owner’s Guide)
This post elaborates on the Physical Sensitivity section of The HSP Owner’s Guide. In a world that often feels loud, fast-paced, and overstimulating, it’s not…
Book Club | Wintering (Katherine May)
In our February Book Club, we met to discuss ‘Wintering: The power of rest and retreat in difficult times‘ by Katherine May. Here are my…
It’s Annoying When They Tell You To Slow Down
I feel cautious about promoting the idea of slowness without anchoring it to something concrete and meaningful. Carl Honoré suggests that everyone is eager to…
Setting Boundaries When You Want to Do it All (with Leah Burkhart)
In this episode of The Gentle Rebel Podcast, I sit down with returning guest and friend of the show, Leah Burkhart, founder of The Healthy…
01 | Tranquility (Coming To Our Senses)
The first issue of Coming To Our Senses, a Haven Zine exploring the intersection of high sensitivity, creativity, and culture.
Are There Strangers in Your Gondola?
Have you ever had a tranquil moment trampled on by strangers? We’ve been exploring the phrase “I’m a hole, I’m not alone” as a creative…
Starting with Purpose: How Highly Sensitive People Develop Differently
You’ve probably come across Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, a theory suggesting that people develop through a sequence of needs, from basic survival to self-actualisation. However,…
