Lynn Goodwin

Because HSPs are highly responsive to their environments, they may be more vulnerable to anxiety, depression, shame, burnout, or social withdrawal when they have lived through chronic stress, criticism, trauma, invalidation, or environments where sensitivity was treated as weakness. Aron’s work is clear that high sensitivity itself is not a diagnosis, but a normal trait that can interact with life experiences in important ways. A sensitive nervous system may absorb more from difficult environmen

Let it be gone! When you exhale, you do not run to every leaf on every tree and every blade of grass yelling, “DO PHOTOSYNTHESIS! Make more oxygen with my carbon dioxide!” Why? Because the earth knows what to do with your waste products. There is already a plan in place. The same can be true with your mental, spiritual, and emotional ick. Once you release it, you do not have to micromanage its transformation. You also do not geolocate every turd you flush and track it every hour on the hour.

Community always costs us something. I can only speak from my perspective when I say that, to date, it cost me my identity, my health, my sense of value and purpose, and my joy. But did it have to cost me everything to remain connected? I was not aware—nor was it taught—that I had a right to choose the cost.