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

Rituals

The Disappearance of Rituals

In The Disappearance of Rituals, Byung-Chul Han writes, “Rituals are to time what a home is to space: they render time habitable.” In a restless,…

Selective Focus Photography of Water Dew by Bogdan Dirică from Pexels (Free use via Canva)

How Slowing Down Can Help Us Procrastinate Less

I was recently asked how I distinguish between slowness and procrastination. It got me thinking. While procrastinating can cause important stuff to stagnate, maybe slowing…

Black Corded Headphones with Colorful Books in Between by Stas Knop from Pexels (Free use via Canva)

11 Conversational Habits That Block Empathic Listening

Empathic listening nurtures a feeling of belonging. But it’s hard! When we communicate with others, there are so many things that can get in the…

Green Grass Fields around a Pond by Blaž Gostinčar from Pexels (Free use via Canva)

Create Margin For Inspiration

I don’t know about you but sometimes I push myself to the limit and something that would normally inspire me feels like an overwhelming noise.…

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Building Habits by Starting Slow and Small

There is a huge amount about the topic of habits and I don’t want to regurgitate what is already out there. So in this week’s…

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What Did You Hear Me Say?

The teacher turned to the child and said calmly, “I need to be able to speak to the class and I find it distracting when…

Sustainable Business Inner Rebel

Your Inner Rebel & Sustainable Business (with Annie Schuessler)

After 20 years as a practicing therapist, Annie Schuessler recognised something vital: her work, though deeply meaningful, was starting to exhaust her. The early signs…

boundaries for highly sensitive person

Defining Boundaries for the Highly Sensitive Business Person (with Leah Burkhart)

There’s something about chatting with Leah Burkhart that always feels particularly grounding. Leah is the founder of The Healthy Sensitive and brings a rare mix…

Meditation

Simple Meditation for Highly Sensitive People (with David Johnson)

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”…

Collective Narcissism

Collective Narcissism and Highly Sensitive People

The term narcissism is thrown around frequently—often as a way to dismiss those who think differently or challenge our views. But while individual narcissism can…