Deborah Ward

When We Help Others, We Help Ourselves

Considering our tendency to become overwhelmed and upset by too much stimulation, you would think we’d hide from such experiences. So why do HSPs always feel the need to help? Perhaps it’s because we know what it’s like to need help.

Considering our tendency to become overwhelmed and upset by too much stimulation, you would think we’d hide from such experiences. So why do HSPs always feel the need to help? Perhaps it’s because we know what it’s like to need help.

When it comes to inner strength, highly sensitive people seem to have some kind of secret ability to weather life’s storms.

One Thing You Need to Make Relationships Work

While relationships take effort and working on them can make them better, the fight for happiness is often futile. Why? It’s not because two people are not destined to be together or because real love doesn’t take any work. It’s because all too often, we’re fighting against each other instead of working together.

While relationships take effort and working on them can make them better, the fight for happiness is often futile. Why? It’s not because two people are not destined to be together or because real love doesn’t take any work. It’s because all too often, we’re fighting against each other instead of working together.

You Don't Have To Go It Alone

Highly sensitive people don’t have to go it alone, nor do we have to be social butterflies, filling our lives with Facebook friends and a bursting social calendar. We can find our need for silence and solitude, for creativity and reflection, as well as our need for human connection, in our own unique way.

Highly sensitive people don’t have to go it alone, nor do we have to be social butterflies, filling our lives with Facebook friends and a bursting social calendar. We can find our need for silence and solitude, for creativity and reflection, as well as our need for human connection, in our own unique way.

How to Cope as a Highly Sensitive Extrovert

Most highly sensitive people are introverts, but not all. According to Elaine Aron, 30 percent of HSPs are extroverts, which can present its own set of challenges.

Most highly sensitive people are introverts, but not all. According to Elaine Aron, 30 percent of HSPs are extroverts, which can present its own set of challenges.

How Your Sensitivity Can Help You Reach Your Goals – Part II

In a previous post, I wrote how our sensitivity can lead us to feeling overwhelmed, but the energy that HPSs are constantly absorbing can also be channeled into our own pursuits, fueling us with the drive we need to reach our goals. Here's how.

In a previous post, I wrote how our sensitivity can lead us to feeling overwhelmed, but the energy that HPSs are constantly absorbing can also be channeled into our own pursuits, fueling us with the drive we need to reach our goals. Here's how.

New Research Shows Empathy in HSP's Brains

Elaine Aron and her colleagues have just published a new study which is the first to prove that the brains of highly sensitive people are markedly different from others. Results of the research showed that sensitivity was associated with activation of brain regions involved in awareness, integration of sensory information, empathy, and action planning.

Elaine Aron and her colleagues have just published a new study which is the first to prove that the brains of highly sensitive people are markedly different from others. Results of the research showed that sensitivity was associated with activation of brain regions involved in awareness, integration of sensory information, empathy, and action planning.

How to Make Work Work for an HSP

It’s easy for highly sensitive people to become trapped in a victim role, even when it comes to work and the way we spend our spare time. We struggle to find jobs that will fulfil us in a world more focused on monetary gain. But while our natural instinct is to retreat in order to regain our strength, a proactive approach can be the secret to our success.

It’s easy for highly sensitive people to become trapped in a victim role, even when it comes to work and the way we spend our spare time. We struggle to find jobs that will fulfil us in a world more focused on monetary gain. But while our natural instinct is to retreat in order to regain our strength, a proactive approach can be the secret to our success.

Coping with an Emotional Bombshell

Many of us have found ourselves in a situation where we're listening, concerned, and wanting to help. Whether it’s a friend, a parent, a husband or an adult child, however, we can easily become drawn into the emotions of someone else so deeply that we begin to put their needs above our own.

Many of us have found ourselves in a situation where we're listening, concerned, and wanting to help. Whether it’s a friend, a parent, a husband or an adult child, however, we can easily become drawn into the emotions of someone else so deeply that we begin to put their needs above our own.

How Mindfulness Can Benefit Highly Sensitive People

Mindfulness is becoming an increasingly common term used to describe a state of being. It’s not a religion or a philosophy, but a technique that encourages acceptance, appreciation and living in the moment. To me, it’s something that highly sensitive people can not only benefit from, but something we do naturally.

Mindfulness is becoming an increasingly common term used to describe a state of being. It’s not a religion or a philosophy, but a technique that encourages acceptance, appreciation and living in the moment. To me, it’s something that highly sensitive people can not only benefit from, but something we do naturally.