I write a lot about feelings. I find them slippery. I get overwhelmed by them, and then behave in ways I am not proud of. I have found that they can be fleeting – passing clouds I shouldn’t pay attention to, that buried underneath them is objective truth. I have also learned that they are guideposts and they show me the way and I really should listen to them. […]
Finding Contentment
I put the postcard-size prints of the photos I’ve taken on the desk for the photography teacher to look at. It’s the end of class and most of the people have already left. As she looks at them, Emily who is another student comes up. She wants to ask the teacher a question. She notices one of the photos – the silhouette of leaves on a tree. […]
An HSP Writer: A Declaration
I first started writing about being sensitive (an HSP) after reading this post on the HSP Notes blog. In it, Peter talks about the fact that, as a group, HSPs are conspicuous by their absence in the online world even though there are approximately one billion of us on this planet. He says that he was “amazed at just how invisible we are. And in the few places where we are visible, how little we participate.” […]
Birthing our Stories
In her wonderfully honest book A Broom of One’s Own, writer Nancy Peacock talks about the importance of containment for giving birth to the stories inside us. Frittering away our energy in talking about them before our stories are ripe to share almost guarantees that they won’t see the light of day. […]
Grounding and the Highly Sensitive Person
In his wonderful website HSP Notes, Peter talks articulately about what it means to be an HSP or a highly sensitive person. He talks about how life always seemed louder than him and the world “bigger, louder, more violent.” That’s probably the experience of everyone who identifies themselves as being HSP. When I think of myself as a sensitive child, what I remember first is going to a crowded neighborhood market in New Delhi, India – the kind of market that sits next to sets of DDA flats – with shops where you could buy groceries, with a tailor, and a stationery store plus a halwai (sweet-seller). […]
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