Empathy is the ability to feel compassion for other people., it involves being sensitive to the feelings of others and reacting with that information in mind. If you have had children, you will know that in the early years children …
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Highly Sensitive People Have a Stronger Depth of Processing
Highly sensitive people have a more sensitive nervous system, they are just born that way. Studies have shown that they use different parts of the brain in different ways to non-HSPs. One of the effects of this different way of …
Highly Sensitive people are misunderstood
Highly sensitive people (HSPs) are often misunderstood. It is easy to think of HSPs as rude if they suddenly ghost at a party. Everyone else is left wondering what happened. HSPs have a more sensitive nervous system then 80% of …
Traits of a Highly Sensitive Person
Adapted from Aron (2016). It is estimated that 15-20% of the population is highly sensitive. There is even a scale to measure it! (Benham, 2006). One of my clients introduced me to Elaine Aron’s book “The Highly Sensitive Person”. I …