Understanding your sensitive self
Most of my life I’ve had the experience of feeling like an outsider, looking in. And without doing anything terribly rebellious, I’ve also often felt like the Black Sheep at different times in my life. I know many sensitives feel like I do.
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A month or so back, I put out a new birdfeeder with seeds I had decided on after doing a quick Google search. Then, for a week, I waited. And waited. No birds came.
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Many of us who are highly sensitive also have the trait of high-sensation-seeking, which can feel really paradoxical at times. On the one hand, as sensitives, we are cautious. We don’t like unnecessary risks. We don’t like making mistakes.
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Several years ago, I read (or more honestly dipped into) Nicholas Carr’s book The Shallows, with its quite alarming subtitle What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains.
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For sensitives, a lot has been written about our tendency to get entangled with toxic people. A lot has also been written about our tendency to be people-pleasers.
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