Understanding your sensitive self
I was watching the animated movie Orion and the Dark recently. In it, a little boy called Orion who has an active (and often, overactive) imagination faces his fears in an epic journey with someone who he fears the most at first: a creature called Dark.
In the movie, as Orion spins out into worry, Dark tells him: “Kid, you’re either extremely disturbed or extremely creative.”
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Being in our body can feel really hard for many of us. This is especially true for those of us who have experienced any kind of trauma related to it.
Maybe, it was physical abuse, which now causes us to flee from our bodies and jump into our minds. Or maybe, it was an accident that left us feeling so small and vulnerable that being in our body feels very threatening now.
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In her book, Personal Boundaries for Highly Sensitive People, author and writing coach Grace Kerina says something really interesting about how she talks with her highly sensitive clients about sensitivity.
She says:
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Should we always follow our intuition?
If you’re someone who knows and feels things, you know this is a tricky question.
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I put out a birdfeeder a year ago, and in this short space of a year, I have become a “bird person.” It’s not that I didn’t like birds earlier.
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