I UNDERSTAND YOU.
I'm a HIGHLY SENSITIVE PERSON, too.
Empath, Introverts, and HSPs. I get it, because I live it.
I realized I was a Highly Sensitive Person when I was a junior in college. I was sitting in the library cafe reading an article in the UTNE Reader about a woman who identified as an HSP sharing her tools for living a balanced life. I remember the writer described how healing nature was for her---and how taking mini mindfulness breaks away from people and electronics daily was vital for her mental and physical health. I remember an Aha! light off in my mind---one I couldn't quite process in the moment---but the process would find me when I had gathered the tools needed to understand my sensitive nature with compassion and empathy.
I've felt so much for so long, I had a hard time delineating what belonged to me and what belonged to whomever I was spending time around. Family was a different story. Growing up, I seemed to absorb family issues like a sponge. I was the depressed one (the oldest of four children), who seemed to take on everyones dysfunctions and throw them into a growing sack on my back that made my life heavier and others lighter (or maybe there was not change at all---but my perception told me I'd lighted my loved one's loads).
I was lonely and craving connection, yet in the presence of others I often went into sensory overload and shut down for days afterwards. Thus, I chose not to have many friends. In high school cliques were the death of me. I felt like I was treading water (doing all that I could to keep from drowning) in a gaggle of girls. I kept a sense of self by putting up walls. Very few people could get behind those outer layers to know the free-spirited, kind-hearted, silly, imaginative me.
I still fight with walls. They protect. They create an illusory boundary of safety. And they are needed with some people---but not with all people. My own therapuetic and healing journey has made me trust my feelings---all of them. My feelings are valid. I have gained a sharp sense of what's mine and what's not mine. But sometimes I still get confused---especially when it's someone super close, like my daughter.
I've learned that feeling deeply is a blessing and not a curse. It's about loving life. It's about being who you are in the highly sensitive, empathic skin you were born into.
I realized I was a Highly Sensitive Person when I was a junior in college. I was sitting in the library cafe reading an article in the UTNE Reader about a woman who identified as an HSP sharing her tools for living a balanced life. I remember the writer described how healing nature was for her---and how taking mini mindfulness breaks away from people and electronics daily was vital for her mental and physical health. I remember an Aha! light off in my mind---one I couldn't quite process in the moment---but the process would find me when I had gathered the tools needed to understand my sensitive nature with compassion and empathy.
I've felt so much for so long, I had a hard time delineating what belonged to me and what belonged to whomever I was spending time around. Family was a different story. Growing up, I seemed to absorb family issues like a sponge. I was the depressed one (the oldest of four children), who seemed to take on everyones dysfunctions and throw them into a growing sack on my back that made my life heavier and others lighter (or maybe there was not change at all---but my perception told me I'd lighted my loved one's loads).
I was lonely and craving connection, yet in the presence of others I often went into sensory overload and shut down for days afterwards. Thus, I chose not to have many friends. In high school cliques were the death of me. I felt like I was treading water (doing all that I could to keep from drowning) in a gaggle of girls. I kept a sense of self by putting up walls. Very few people could get behind those outer layers to know the free-spirited, kind-hearted, silly, imaginative me.
I still fight with walls. They protect. They create an illusory boundary of safety. And they are needed with some people---but not with all people. My own therapuetic and healing journey has made me trust my feelings---all of them. My feelings are valid. I have gained a sharp sense of what's mine and what's not mine. But sometimes I still get confused---especially when it's someone super close, like my daughter.
I've learned that feeling deeply is a blessing and not a curse. It's about loving life. It's about being who you are in the highly sensitive, empathic skin you were born into.
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Empath/HSP Grounding Tools Coaching Sessions to deepen your connection with yourself and the world.
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Coaching Session FAQ:What does a Coaching Session entail?
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Sarah will work with you to co-design a Toolbox of Personal Grounding Tools
that are customized to fit your Empathic/Highly Sensitive uniqueness.
Working together over several sessions can help Sarah hone in on your unique way of releasing, processing and exploring your inner and outer world.
Every Empath and HSP is different, which is why cookie cutter self-help books may not speak to you. In Sarah's own path, she has taken what she's needed and left the rest with hundreds of self-help books, online classes and in person-workshops. Sarah offers both the insights she's gained in her personal 15 plus year journey coming to understand her own empathic traits, along with her professional training as a Mental Health Counselor, Mindfulness teacher and coach, and Yoga instructor.
Sarah has spent thousands of dollars (and even more than that if you count her Master's degree--but that's a heavy debt she'd rather discuss with a financial advisor ;-) on her own self-help journey. Sarah's hope is that she will save you time and money going through the trial and error she did by offering you the tools that are just right for you. In Sarah's experience as Reiki Master healer, she discovered the gift of a strong intuition. If you are open to it, Sarah will offer intuitive insight in addition to her professional toolbox.
These session will help you find what you need to bring you into stronger alignment with who you are. They will offer a sense of empowerment; helping you uncover your strengths and tend to your weaknesses with compassion.
They will offer a sense of balance, deep peace, grounding in your daily life.
that are customized to fit your Empathic/Highly Sensitive uniqueness.
Working together over several sessions can help Sarah hone in on your unique way of releasing, processing and exploring your inner and outer world.
Every Empath and HSP is different, which is why cookie cutter self-help books may not speak to you. In Sarah's own path, she has taken what she's needed and left the rest with hundreds of self-help books, online classes and in person-workshops. Sarah offers both the insights she's gained in her personal 15 plus year journey coming to understand her own empathic traits, along with her professional training as a Mental Health Counselor, Mindfulness teacher and coach, and Yoga instructor.
Sarah has spent thousands of dollars (and even more than that if you count her Master's degree--but that's a heavy debt she'd rather discuss with a financial advisor ;-) on her own self-help journey. Sarah's hope is that she will save you time and money going through the trial and error she did by offering you the tools that are just right for you. In Sarah's experience as Reiki Master healer, she discovered the gift of a strong intuition. If you are open to it, Sarah will offer intuitive insight in addition to her professional toolbox.
These session will help you find what you need to bring you into stronger alignment with who you are. They will offer a sense of empowerment; helping you uncover your strengths and tend to your weaknesses with compassion.
They will offer a sense of balance, deep peace, grounding in your daily life.