I have always loved horses. From my earliest memories, these magnificent animals held me spellbound. But my experiences with horses over the years pushed me away from them, not because my feelings had changed, but because the treatment I witnessed, and was expected to administer in my interactions with them, felt out of alignment with …
Over the weekend, I attended a music conference on a college campus near my hometown. My cousin came in from Ohio, and we shared a dorm room and lots of memories and got all silly just like we were actual college roommates. Saturday morning, she wanted to go to a session called “Singing for …
My goal this week was to follow some sage advice or, more appropriately put, to follow some advice I received from a sage. Start a newsletter. While I’ve been resisting this idea because, let’s face it, there are already too many of these things finding their way by some internet magic into our inboxes, …
Sometimes things don’t work out the way we plan. Read More »
May 11, 2021 This idea to write about the inner child and her superpowers. I can’t seem to do it. I can’t access it. What were her superpowers? Did she have any? Other than to do what she was told, which sometimes made other people happy? Did that make her feel good? It was …
It’s only recently that I became aware of the trait formally called Sensory Processing Sensitivity, via a documentary film titled Sensitive: The Untold Story. This led me to a book by Dr. Elaine Aron, a leading researcher in the field who coined the term Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) to refer to individuals who have this …
Register Now Tuesday, April 18, 20237-8:30pm (EDT) OnlineRegistration is now open. Pay what you can (optional) details in email confirmation for those who register. Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) is a genetic trait found in 15 to 20 percent of the population. Those of us with SPS, also known as Highly Sensitive People, are …
Being Highly Sensitive in a World Designed for Overload: A Facilitated Discussion Read More »
Circa March, 2020 I’m looking in the mirror and who I’m seeing isn’t me. I don’t know how to explain this, other than to say, I mean it literally. I’m staring at my own reflection, and the person I see is my brother. Or my mother. Sometimes I see my grandmother. Often it’s my …
April 6, 2022 For the longest time, I couldn’t find her. I called and searched and queried. “Have you seen my Spark?” I said, “My Joy?” Deaf ears. It was as if she’d never existed. (Was it that she’d never existed?) “I can’t find my Meaning,” I cried, “My Reason for Being!” …
March 5, 2023 I recently held a discovery session with a potential client during which I quickly recognized that what I was seeing in her was quite different from the way she was seeing herself. This brought up the memory of some work I had done with a mentor a few years earlier. This …
Shape Shifting and the Highly Sensitive Person’s Distorted Mirrors Read More »
September 9, 2022 Lately I’ve been revisiting my relationship with the color pink. I never liked the color pink. I rarely wore it and, for the most part, did not allow it into my life. I’ve only recently started to question why that is. Society links the color pink with girls and …