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

At The Edge of Usefulness

The Edge of Usefulness (Sound Anchor)

This sound anchor was inspired by this Notes From a Slow Coach. It came after we explored the question, “How do you know when an…

The Edge of Usefulness

Wandering on the edge of usefulness

Have you ever noticed that you are still doing or using the same thing you did years ago, with no apparent reason? Some things naturally…

Toxic Positivity

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…

Lighted Fluorescent Tube by Oleg Magni (Free use via Canva)

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…

Wintering

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 to be told to slow down

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…

Reflection of Window on Wall by Paweł L (free use via Canva)

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…

Coming To Our Senses

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.

Gondola

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…

Sailboat-Metaphor

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,…