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My Highly Sensitive Recovery – Part 11

I’ve learned how to manage and even overcome the ailments with which I once struggled. This is one of the reasons why my life mission is to help other highly sensitive people learn how to better manage their Self Care.

My Highly Sensitive Recovery — Part 10

As a HSP, many of the disorders — manifestations of a punishing lifestyle — have subsided or are in the midst of being healed. My own personal experiences led me to my paradise, the place where I belong and call home.

My Highly Sensitive Recovery — Part 9

This profound trait led me to my paradise — the highly sensitive Big Island of Hawaii. I still have trying moments. However, the majority of time I enjoy the deepest contentment, joy and mental/physical/spiritual health I could have ever imagined.

My Highly Sensitive Recovery — Part 8

I had never felt at home anywhere. My only true refuge was to take one-week vacations to Hawaii every 4 or 5 months. I could not get enough. Now, at 57, I live in Hawaii. Paradise, yes…but what a journey to get here!

My Highly Sensitive Recovery — Part 7

As my highly sensitive mother would say to me “you’re a deep thinker and you walk to your own drummer.” That is a perfect description of HSPs and also why I want to help other HSPs pursue their goals and dreams.

My Highly Sensitive Recovery — Part 6

While all my peers cried their eyes out because graduation meant leaving all their friends, I cried just as hard except for a different reason — RELIEF! I am only now beginning to recognize and reconcile the scars and wounds from those trying years.

My Highly Sensitive Recovery — Part 5

HSPs are easily over-stimulated and acutely aware of every feeling in a harsh world of non-sensitive people. However, we have phenomenal inner strength — Do not think for a minute that we are not tough.

My Highly Sensitive Recovery — Part 4

HSPs make up 15-20% of the population. We are highly perceptive, great listeners, highly compassionate, highly empathic, and make wonderful friends, therapists and mothers. However, there are pros and cons to being Highly Sensitive.

My Highly Sensitive Recovery — Part 3

At times during my Highly Sensitive Recovery I couldn’t live without my anti-inflammatory meds, became dependent on sleep aids, muscle relaxants for the high-pain nights, antidepressants for depression and anxiety, over-used food and alcohol for comfort, and so it went.

My Highly Sensitive Recovery — Part 2

My health was seriously suffering. All because I insisted I could keep up with others in the world. What was I thinking as a highly sensitive person?

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