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Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) are individuals with genetic characteristics that makes them deeply attuned and sensitive to their environments and relationships. They have high levels of empathy and emotional responsiveness. Above all, HSPs tend to be more thoughtful in their actions and deeply reflective. All this attunement and processing means they are also often easily overstimulated. This quiz can help you determine whether you share this trait. (You can also learn more there about highly sensitive children here.)

Are you Highly Sensitive? Find out here: High Sensitivity Self-test

Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D. is a clinical and research psychologist who has studied high sensitivity since 1990. She has published five books on the subject, including The Highly Sensitive Person (translated into 21 languages), The Highly Sensitive Child, and Psychotherapy and the Highly Sensitive Person, as well as scientific articles in the leading journals in her field. She and her husband, Arthur Aron, are also well known for their study of love and close relationships. She assisted in the creation of the film Sensitive: The Untold Story and is currently working on the next film, Sensitive and Love.

Learn more about the Highly Sensitive Person at: www.hsperson.com You will find many articles about sensitivity that have accumulated over 25 years of her writing a newsletter and blog. Also, links to all of the latest research here.

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The Wound With No Name

What lies behind chronic depression, anxiety, addiction, and other life-stoppers.

What lies behind chronic depression, anxiety, addiction, and other life-stoppers.

Watch Out for Those Touchy, Treacherous, Hurting Complexes

Among the depth-psychology tools we need for living life, understanding complexes is your handy screwdriver. It opens up many things and closes some as well.  We all have complexes.  They are the "building blocks of the personality," as Jung called them.

Among the depth-psychology tools we need for living life, understanding complexes is your handy screwdriver. It opens up many things and closes some as well.  We all have complexes.  They are the "building blocks of the personality," as Jung called them.

Consulting with Your Wisest Self

The undervalued version of yourself is only one of many "self states."   By a self state, I mean the way we think and feel in a particular situation or role.  You are still you, but you may also feel almost like a different person whether you are with your parents, best friend, supervisor at work, etc.

The undervalued version of yourself is only one of many "self states."   By a self state, I mean the way we think and feel in a particular situation or role.  You are still you, but you may also feel almost like a different person whether you are with your parents, best friend, supervisor at work, etc.

Remember the Soul?

Today good therapy is said to be brief, focused on a diagnosis, and manualized for standardization. There is more than a hint that it is unethical to look any deeper.  However, that is all changing.

Today good therapy is said to be brief, focused on a diagnosis, and manualized for standardization. There is more than a hint that it is unethical to look any deeper.  However, that is all changing.

Ranking and Linking, For Better and For Worse

 Self-affirmations do not help when we are hit with low self-esteem because this universal problem results from our natural response to defeat, part of our broader instinct to rank ourselves among others. The first step is to better recognize ranking and linking behaviors, the two things we do all day but hardly think about.

 Self-affirmations do not help when we are hit with low self-esteem because this universal problem results from our natural response to defeat, part of our broader instinct to rank ourselves among others. The first step is to better recognize ranking and linking behaviors, the two things we do all day but hardly think about.