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. […]
In Transition – Resistance
In his wonderful book, The War of Art, Steven Pressfield talks about resistance – that insidious force that inhibits our growth and keeps us stuck. Resistance is what kicks in when we are trying to make substantial changes – whether it is pursuing a calling in a creative field, launching our own business or making a huge commitment like getting married or having a child. […]
If you don’t get paid for it, is it not work?
In her insightful book When Work Doesn’t Work Anymore – Women, Work and Identity, Elizabeth Perle McKenna talks about how we, as women, don’t assign the same value to “free” time as we do to “waged” time – hours traded for money. “Wendy felt bad about asking her husband to take her son for a few hours on Saturday mornings after she’d been home all week so she could go to exercise class. “He works all week. I feel guilty about doing something for myself.” I ask her if she hired a baby-sitter, would that person be working? “Yes,” she replied. “Then aren’t you working too?” I wondered. “I never thought of it that way,” she replied. “It doesn’t feel like work because I’m not getting paid.” […]
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