For highly sensitive people, self care is extremely important. “The practice of taking action to preserve or improve one’s health.” Oxford dictionary Self care can involve many factors, including emotional, physical, mental and spiritual health, and will look different from one person to the next. Some examples of self care might include: However, sometimes weContinue reading “Doing Self Care vs Being Self Care”
Category Archives: HSS
Courage
I think Highly Sensitive Sensation Seekers are some of the most courageous people that I know. Trying to satisfy this huge drive to do more, to reach further, to climb higher whilst having the capacity to look inwards so deeply, and to have such immense curiosity requires tremendous courage. The risk of overwhelming the highlyContinue reading “Courage”
Why Am I So Hard On Myself?
As a highly sensitive person I feel acutely and intuitive aware of the subtleties in life – the tiny details. Details, that probably go unnoticed by the majority of people, are glaringly obvious to me. It’s hard to settle for ‘good enough’; I expect more. As a high sensation seeker I am always driven –Continue reading “Why Am I So Hard On Myself?”
HSS?
What does it mean to be a High Sensation Seeker? Sensation seeking encompasses the drive for varied, novel & complex experiences. Canadian psychologist Marvin Zuckerman pioneered modern sensation seeking research and developed the Sensation Seeking Scale (SSS). “sensation seeking is a personality trait defined by the search for experiences and feelings that are varied, novel, complex, andContinue reading “HSS?”
HSP&HSS?
Being a High Sensation Seeking Highly Sensitive Person has been described as the ‘golden ticket’. How to manage being both HSP & HSS? How do you juggle both of these traits of being a highly sensitive person who is also a high sensation seeker?Dr Elaine Aron describes it using the analogy of living with “oneContinue reading “HSP&HSS?”