As Highly Sensitive People, We are Similar, Yet Different.

Putting together the puzzle pieces of our highly sensitive life can feel hard because, of course, highly sensitive people are not ONE homogenous group. We are all different people with our own experiences, our own challenges & our own traumas.

In this post, I want to talk about some highly sensitive people who have unique puzzle pieces to give us or are working in very specific ways with HSPs. Here we go!

Highly Sensitive People Focusing on Diverse Topics.

I have written about fellow sensitive spirit Ane Axford in this post about her insightful conception of how highly sensitive people have an inverted hierarchy of needs. If you’ve studied psychology, you might know that many psychological theories talk about how, as human beings, we need to first satisfy our base-level needs (like food and shelter) before we move on to higher-level needs like finding purpose & meaning. But Ane’s work talks about how highly sensitive people often have such high meaning-seeking needs that they tend to develop in an opposite way to the norm.

Jody Day is the British founder of Gateway Women, a global friendship & support network for childless women. I came across her work because she is a fellow contributor to Sensitive Evolution’s 2021 Empowerment Guide for Sensitive People (Check out the full article list here and read my article here.) As a highly sensitive person herself, Jody is a thought-leader on female involuntary childlessness. She is also an integrative psychotherapist and a TEDx speaker & a former Fellow in Social Innovation at Cambridge Judge Business School.

Did you know that it is possible to be BOTH a highly sensitive person and a high sensation-seeker (someone who likes new experiences)? I have both these traits, which means that I have both sensitive brakes & a sensitive accelerator. Sometimes, I feel like I have two people inside of me. If you have both these traits, check out the first -ever seminar for high sensation-seeking highly sensitive people, hosted by Dr. Tracy Cooper.

If you didn’t find what you were looking for, you might like to refer to this previous post I did about Events, Coaches and Therapists to Help Channel Your Sensitivity. (The events are, of course, no longer current.)

I hope you found something useful in this post. As highly sensitive people, we are similar, yet different. So, if you’ve ever felt that the sensitive communities you’ve found don’t reflect the real you, I hope you keep on looking till you find what you need.

Ritu Kaushal is the author of the book The Empath’s Journey, which TEDx speaker Andy Mort calls “A fascinating insight into the life of a highly sensitive person and an emotional empath.”

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