Understanding your sensitive self
As highly sensitive people, we are often very tuned in to other people’s feelings and emotions. Their moods affect us, and because our own boundaries feel permeable to these feelings, we can start to almost become an expert on other people’s feelings.
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If you are an INFP or INFJ, you likely jump from one thought to another when you are talking. This isn’t a problem when two intuitive types are having a conversation. We intuitively get what the other person is saying.
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This week, we welcome the lovely Rev. Connie L. Habash, LMFT, author of the book Awakening from Anxiety: A Spiritual Guide to Living a More Calm, Confident, and Courageous Life, to the blog. Connie is a California-based licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, an ordained Interfaith minister, and a fellow highly sensitive person.
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Even as a child, this being “too sensitive” had often left me feeling as if the world was too much for me. It was too big, too large, too hurtful. One of my earliest memories is of walking to a neighborhood Delhi market with my naani (my maternal grandmother) for some errands she had to do.
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I had this interesting experience with someone recently that got me thinking about how people react to the word “sensitive.” I went to an event recently where there were a bunch of other writers.
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