Understanding your sensitive self
For the last few years, again and again, I have had this thought pop up in my mind, “I want to go home.” It took me a while to realize that this longing for home was symbolic of a longing to feel “at home” with myself & others and not a need to physically move somewhere new.
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I love great questions. Sometimes, even more than facts, questions can nudge you in the right direction. And if the question is framed “just so,” it can start a train of associations.
I especially love journaling questions.
And I found some great ones recently in psychologist Lori L Cangilla’s lovely guided journal, Wander and Delve, a journal for “bright, creative, highly sensitive people forging their way.” There is so much good stuff in it!
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I wrote recently about getting more & more interested in the “inner child” topic. As I’ve been thinking about it, I realized how, in my night-time dreams, my inner child doesn’t actually often look like my child-self.
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Our next book selection for The Highly Sensitive Creative Book Club is Ilse Sand’s book Highly Sensitive People in an Insensitive World. This book talks perceptively about some common struggles highly sensitive people face.
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I started birdwatching last year, out of a growing impulse to connect with something deeper, something more rhythmic. In the space of a little more than a year, I feel like a new layer has been added to my life.
My world is now full of new sounds and ideas and textures.
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