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Uncovering the Best Way to Live with Highly Sensitive Traits
I launched the Happy Sensitive Kids blog back in 2014. My eldest was 7. I have 3 sons and my youngest was 3 then. I started the blog because I felt alone. And I realised my parenting goal is to uncover the best way to live with highly sensitive traits. Mine. And my children’s. Not Like Other Babies Other babies slept. Mine didn’t. Other babies could be left with their grandparents. Mine couldn’t. Other toddlers went to playgroups and tottered off to explore and play alongside other children. Mine didn’t. My first child cried as a baby. A lot. In fact, he didn’t just cry, he screamed. All evening long.…
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Today is World Mental Health Day – Here’s Why That’s Important if You Are Highly Sensitive
Today is World Mental Health day. Mental health issues are not always as visible as physical health issues. Talking about mental health problems doesn’t always feel comfortable. The aim of World Mental Health day is to raise awareness about our mental health and how we can provide support for mental health conditions. “Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.” Ezra Taft Benson Suicide Prevention Every 40 seconds, someone loses their life to suicide. According to the WHO, more than 800,000 people die by suicide a year, making it the principal cause of death among people fifteen to twenty-nine years old. Let…
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5 Awesome Creative Gifts – To Rekindle that Lost Creativity
Highly sensitive people are creative people at their core. Often, along the way, we lose our creative spark. But the good news is that we can always rekindle it, starting with a small action. Here are 5 awesome creative gifts that will help you or your loved one back on that path! 1. The Artist’s Way I cannot recommend The Artist’s Way enough if you are looking to get those creative juices flowing. It’s essentially a 12 week course designed to (re)ignite your creativity. This book is the reason we now have a piano in our home. Through writing morning pages and other assignments, I realised I would dearly love…
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How To Create A Balanced Life As A Highly Sensitive Person
For a highly sensitive person (HSP) to flourish we need to make choices that create balance in our lives. There are three steps to take in order to create a balanced life as a highly sensitive person. Goal as a HSP Our goal as HSPs is to learn what our highly sensitive traits actually are. And then determine how to live a balanced life with those traits. What is clear is that we need to learn to live with our traits. It’s like having a super power that you need to learn to control. It is important to realise that many of our HS traits are incredibly positive. And that…
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5 Excellent Bullet Journaling Ideas for Highly Sensitive People
Bullet journalling for highly sensitive people is an excellent idea. Why? Because a bullet journal helps us to nurture our creative side, explore our emotions and thoughts and create lists that will help us accept and understand our highly sensitive selves. As a bonus, for those of you who are results orientated, you get to tick a lot of stuff off! Here are 5 bullet journaling ideas for highly sensitive people to get you started. Bullet Journaling – A Quick Intro If you don’t already bullet journal, then here’s a quick overview. The beauty of bullet journaling is that it’s flexible and you can decide what goes on inside your…
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5 Tips for Highly Sensitive Parents with a Highly Sensitive Child and a non-HSC
Are you parenting a Highly Sensitive Child (HSC) and non-HSC? Then this guest post by Katie Leigh Matthews is for you! Katie Leigh Matthews is a freelance writer from Birmingham, Alabama. She writes about life as a Highly Sensitive Person, shining a light on HSP’s strengths and encouraging them to find more compassion for their lived experience. She writes at katieleighmatthews.com and you can also find her facing her fear of social media on Twitter. So, without further ado, here are Katie’s 5 tips for highly sensitive parents raising a highly sensitive child and a non-HSC. 5 Tips for Highly Sensitive Parents with a Highly Sensitive Child and a non-HSC When I discovered my firstborn was…
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Here’s What Happens When a Highly Sensitive Person Feels Overloaded
A highly sensitive person feels overloaded by stimuli more quickly than non-highly sensitives do. This stems from, amongst other things, a highly sensitive person’s depth of processing. But when a HSP or your highly sensitive child tells you they feel overloaded, that everything is too much, what exactly do they mean? What Happens When a HSP Feels Overloaded HSPs need more time to process and internalise stimuli than other people. When there is too much stimuli there is an overload. Or overstimulation. Tip: read: 10 Common Reasons Why a Highly Sensitive Child Feels Overwhelmed This feels uncomfortable, or even unsafe to a HSP who then starts acting from the limbic…
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Happy Sensitive Kids Book Free
The Happy Sensitive Kids book is currently free for all readers until Friday 17 June. In honour of HSP week in the Netherlands, you can grab a copy for free on Amazon. 101 Ways to Help Your Highly Sensitive Child Empty Their Bucket This pocket sized guide is full of ideas to help you prevent your child’s bucket spilling over. Fifteen to twenty percent of the population is highly sensitive. Highly sensitive people (HSP) process deeply, intently notice, and absorb their surroundings. So a HSP’s nervous system quickly becomes overloaded and in turn overwhelmed. This manifests itself in many ways for a child – from tears to meltdowns. It’s like…
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10 Gift Ideas for a Highly Sensitive Father
It is soon Father’s Day. If you’re still wondering what to gift that highly sensitive father in your life then you can’t go wrong with one of these ten ideas. 1. Galaxy Projector Highly sensitive people often need help when it comes to a relaxing night’s sleep. And highly sensitive fathers are no exception. How about this planetary projector to help soothe dad into the land of nod? 2. The Highly Sensitive Person Book This book by Elaine Aron is essential reading for any highly sensitive person. 3. The Highly Sensitive Person in Love Book This book is also written by Elaine Aron but this time about highly sensitive people and…
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Why We Focus on the Negative Side of Our Highly Sensitive Traits
Many highly sensitive people focus on the negative side of highly sensitive traits. This post is about why we do this. But more importantly, why we should stop doing this, for the good of our physical and mental health. Being Highly Sensitive is Physically an Mentally Tiring Many HSPs experience normal life as an obstacle. There is so much going on, all the time. There are so many demands on us. The digital world draws us out and forces us to be ‘present’ elsewhere, even when we are in the comforts of our home. It expands our world, allows more upset and bad news in to our lives than we…
