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Love Your Defenses!

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Love Your Defenses - HSP Health Blog

So many defenses. I feel like my life is often about bumping into defenses of one kind or another. Dealing with defenses feels like walking through a field of hay.  With each step you meet  a new stalk(defense) that obscures your vision and parts as you walk only to reveal a new defense. Often the [...]

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Creating Harmony: When Not To Try And Make It Work

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I like harmony. I suspect that many HSPs do. Harmony to me is important because at its best it tells us that we are making effective choices. At its worst, we are keeping a destructive peace. Which is operating in your life? Why Is Harmony So Elusive? I have often wondered why harmony is so [...]

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Guilt Riddance

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Guilt Riddance - HSP Health

Guilt! We all hate it, and it can cling to us no matter what we do. Why is that? Where Does Guilt Come From? I think guilt is interesting in a way. None of us are born with it, and yet it is like a plague of emotional contamination in our lives. Many of us [...]

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Self Sacrifice Can Make You Sick

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Self Sacrifice Can Make You Sick

Self sacrifice is very hard to escape. It is so conditioned into us that whether you are an HSP or non-HSP doesn’t matter. You are subject to the expectation. Self sacrifice carried to an extreme will make you sick, emotionally and physically. Why is self-sacrifice such a problem? Self Sacrifice Solves A Lot Of Problems [...]

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How Delegating Reveals Dysfunction In Relationships

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The High Cost Of Delegating - HSP Health Blog

Do you do a lot of delegating? Are others frequently delegating to you? As  a highly sensitive person, do you find yourself expected to support others too much? Do you ever feel that you are drowning in needs to be met and problems to be solved? Why is that? Reasons for Delegating Delegating can be [...]

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A Reexamination Of Comfort Zones And Creativity

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Comfort Zones And Creativity - HSP Health Blog

Being in one’s comfort zone or not seems to be a marker of all sorts of wonderful traits including creativity and progressiveness. I can even be a path to success and wealth! I consider myself a creative person. However, I find many ideas about comfort zones, and getting out of them, to have very little [...]

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The Safety Of The Good

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photo credit: catnapping The safety of the good,  it is a natural attraction. Do you seek harmony – or the good – especially in your relationships? Many of us, especially HSP’s do. If I examine my experience, I notice how often I feel an inner pull towards the good and working with others. Working with [...]

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Why We Demonize Each Other

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Why do we demonize each other? In 2012, we are able to recognize that demonizing others is a problem. However, our ancestors may not have had the same perspective. Here are some of the reasons our forbears demonized: survival. This is the oldest reason. Our ancestors did not have all the mechanisms for survival that we [...]

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Why Emotional Pain Should be Public Business

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We have so many examples of mishandled pain.  When are we going to address the problem?  When are we going to ask, why is this  occurring and what we can do about it? News about people shooting each other is so common now that many of us don’t give it a passing thought.  Or if [...]

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