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Speaking & Living Your Truth as a Highly Sensitive Person
Highly sensitive people often struggle with speaking their truth, leading to discomfort and pressure. Avoiding tough conversations can result in negative consequences and resentment. However, building awareness, improving communication, and embracing vulnerability can create connections and relieve pressure. By managing emotions without judgment and communicating authentically, HSPs can thrive and create the life they desire.
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The Triple-A Guide to Overcoming Buffering and Procrastination
The post discusses the concept of “buffering” as a way to avoid emotions and tasks. It introduces the Triple-A approach: Awareness, Acceptance, and Application. Awareness involves recognizing repetitive emotions, while Acceptance involves acknowledging and questioning thoughts that were handed to us. Application involves intentionally handling thoughts and emotions through repetition and experimentation for positive change.
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Embracing Your Emotional Landscape: Insights for Highly Sensitive People
Highly sensitive individuals (HSPs) often struggle with societal judgment around their emotions. Understanding the connection between thoughts and emotions is crucial for HSPs. Emotional avoidance leads to negative effects on mental well-being. Mindfulness, grounding techniques, and healthy emotional expression are essential strategies. Embracing emotional vulnerability and seeking support when needed are key steps toward emotional…
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Core Values: The Soul’s North Star 🌟, Compass ðŸ§, & Natural Filter 🌿
Imagine living a life where you make decisions with unwavering clarity and confidence, a life where you honor your true self, unapologetically. Before we dive in, let’s be clear: “Unwavering” and “unapologetically” don’t imply the absence of doubt or fear. Instead, they signify that your clarity and authenticity take the driver’s seat in your life,…
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The Miracle and Magic of Mindfulness
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Sneaky Signs of Self-Sabotage & A Quick and Easy Hack to Pull Out Of It
I’m always surprised when I recognize I’m self-sabotaging. My brain is so sneaky at coming up with new ways or angles. Why do we self-sabotage? The simple answer is fear and our primal survival instinct. When our unconscious mind senses danger, it sends us into a fight/flight/freeze/fawn response. The thing is the things that our…
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3 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Cancelling Plans
You made plans with some friends weeks ago. The day has arrived and you have a million thoughts running through your head. It’s hard to tell which ones are stronger–trying to talk yourself up and into going OR justifying why you should cancel.  This is where you take a pause. Breathe. And ask yourself these…
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You want me to feel comfortable with what?!
The last two weeks have been absolutely ridiculous! Hilariously miserable AND extremely insightful and interesting. Blake (my husband) and I do a version of “dry January” where we eliminate our usual vices. In addition to that this year, we also started using a meal service to help us eat healthier (because “ew, vegetables”). Without any…
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Confidence and your Subconscious
Do you ever feel insecure when going out to meet a group of people because you’re afraid they’ll judge you? Or how about feeling like you are not in control of your life and everything is just happening to you? Our subconscious mind interprets what’s happening around us and then stores that information out of…
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Halloween and the Masks We Wear
Happy Halloween, my beautiful friends! Halloween is one of my favorite holidays of the year. I LOVE all things spooky and have been binging horror tv, movies, and podcasts this season. My husband shared a podcast recently called Throughline produced by NPR that did an episode on the origins of Halloween. As we listened, I…
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