Category: Sensitives/HSP
I Want you to Understand Yourself, Dear One
I was lying on the kitchen floor, weeping. I had just gotten home from a show at our local bar. The night had been loud and overwhelming with a crush of people whose names had skipped right out of my mind. Even though I was in the middle of a big time in my life,…
Something for my Fellow Sensitives
Years ago, I heard the call for something to change in my work. Not that I was on the wrong track, but that there was a new level to my offerings, one that contained the truest seeds of my mission in this lifetime… I was being called to work with other sensitives. Because sensitives carry a magic…
Create a Business that Nourishes your Nervous System
I had a truly lovely holiday this year. A long pause that was filled with just-baked cookies, beeswax candlelight and time delighting in the magic of the season with my daughter. And yet, for as wonderful as my time away was—I was deeply looking forward to coming back to work. Why? Because I’ve created a business that actually nourishes my nervous…
Claim the Life you Want
Boundaries are hard….especially if you’re an empath. Like a hibiscus flower in the full heat of summer, highly sensitive and empathic people are simply born with more openness. This can be challenging—but it can also be spectacular. Being open means you can feel the height of a sunrise. The deep, wordless wisdom in a whale song. The joy of two…
Navigating the Holidays as an Empath
I’ve often found that magic and sensitivity go hand-in-hand. Some of the most magical people I know, are also the most sensitive. Through the years of coming to recognize just how tender my own inner landscape can be, I’ve realized that, instead of being a hindrance, my sensitivity is actually what enables me to see those…
Dealing with Seasonal Overwhelm
The trees are deepening their green every day and the flowers are popping off in full symphonic bursts. The wild roses flutter snowlike down the hillside and between the birds, the bees, the peepers and the neighborhood kids there is music every hour of the day. It is a complete summer paradise. And here I…
Feeling Grief + Dreaming Another World
Grieving is an innate part of being human. It is as natural as springs that seep upward in heavy rains. As a species, we have always made space for grieving. In song and silence, chants and wails. Grieving not only had a space in a healthy and functioning existence, it created space. To be…
