Author Archive: Elaine

Welcome To The Blog For Highly Sensitive People, Intuitives, Empaths, and INFJs In Search Of Emotional Support and Guidance

(May 23, 2012–No you are not seeing double–except for parts of the first paragraph I copied this post and turned it into my new static Home page. So if you have already read this post, check out the comments here and then just scroll down to find the other posts. Welcome to my blog and [...]

October 17, 2011 The Eruption of Post Traumatic Stress is a Healing Opportunity

Hi everyone.  I hope you had a wonderful summer and are enjoying this beautiful fall season.  Wow.  Two weekends of Indian summer was such a blessing!  In my eyes the beauty of the season makes up for summer coming to an end.  I hope it is beautiful wherever you are located!  It has been a [...]

August 5, 2011 Emotionally Healthy Parenting Info. For Highly Sensitive People–It’s Time To Stand Your Ground!

Hi everyone.  It is now August and I hope all of you have been enjoying the summer.  Yeah it’s too hot!–but I hope you are finding creative ways to beat the heat.  I am having the best summer ever!  I have found that my ability to slow down and enjoy the moment is really sticking [...]

July 12, 2011 The Process of Inner Child Healing and a Poem of Hope for Highly Sensitive Survivors

Hello everyone.  Whenever I write a new post, I “tune in” to you, my readers, and write from my heart.  Sometimes I plan what I am going to write and other times I write something entirely different from what I had planned.  At the beginning I used to worry, “how can I top that last post”, [...]

June 17, 2011 Hurts So Good?–Through Pain You Grow Stronger–Processing Childhood Emotional Pain So You Can Heal

Hi everyone.  Today I was out on my patio getting my morning dose of Vitamin D from the sun (hallelujah, the warmth is finally here to stay!) and writing down ideas for my next post.  When I was finished, the song “Hurts So Good” by John Mellencamp came on the radio I was listening to.  You [...]

May 20, 2011 The Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) and The Body–An Awakening To the Importance of Listening To It and Core Strength

Hi everyone.  I am back and writing again. Yay!  I hope you are enjoying the beauty of this spring season and all the brilliantly colorful flowers. Thank you to those who commented or emailed me such wonderful wishes.  It was quite a traumatic ordeal for me but I believe there are lessons in all things [...]

May 5, 2011 Pain is a Teacher

Hello everyone.  I am sorry to be late with my next post–I am recovering from an injury to muscles connected to my sacroiliac joint (low back– right hip area). I am gradually off of pain medication but I am spending most of my hours laying here on my left side. It was quite a shock [...]

April 19, 2011 Moving On From A Narcissistic Parent-Part 2

Hi everyone. Easter will be here in less than one week and I have been reviewing the state of No Contact with my extended family.  It has been 1 year and 4 months since I have had any contact with them and I know I made the right decision.  The time away from them has continuously [...]

March 30, 2011 Honor Thy Parents Only If They Are Honorable–Support for Highly Sensitive Survivors at Easter

Hi everyone.  April is almost here and as highly sensitive survivors you may be experiencing what can only be described as Easter Guilt.  Easter is a family time, when families get together and celebrate God and Jesus and we contemplate our very reason for being on the planet.  Even for the non-religious, Easter causes many [...]

March 15, 2011 HOPE For Overcoming Childhood Pain and Guilt–For Highly Sensitive Survivors of a Narcissistic Parent

Hi everyone.  As we are halfway through March, there is HOPE!  There is hope for Spring and warmer temperatures around the corner, hope for the U.S. economy as joblessness decreases, hope for the Japanese people as they recover from the horrific earthquake and tsunami. We put ourselves in their shoes and imagine how we would cope.  Messages of love, [...]

Feb. 28, 2011 Stress Relief For Highly Sensitive People (HSPs)

Hi everyone. We made it through the harsh weather of February.  Yay!  March has visions of early flowers budding up through the ground, warmer temperatures, and hopefully a lot less snow and storms.  It was beautiful and fun at first, but here in the midwestern United States, the continuous snow and storms soon started to [...]

February 5, 2011 How Highly Sensitive People Who Are High Achieving and Intuitive Can Overcome Self-Defeating Behaviors

Hi everyone. My new website is here!  It is called Highly Sensitive Survivors and it is at hspsurvivors[dot]com.  Today’s post is primarily for high achieving intuitive thinking types (for example, INTJs, and ENTJs) but also may apply to high achieving feeling types as well. Today I want to talk about the special complexity of being both a high achiever and [...]

January 14, 2011 A New Coaching Website for Highly Sensitive Survivors of Emotional Abuse

Hi everyone.  Today is the 1 year anniversary of publishing my very first post on this blog!  I can’t believe all that has happened since then.  Thank you so much to all of my readers and subscribers and those who have left comments in support of what I am doing.  I just purchased a domain name and [...]

January 2, 2011 Happy Shiny New Year!

Happy New Year everyone!  I hope that you had a wonderful, safe, healthy, and memorable holiday celebration with your loved ones–full of love, gratefulness, and compassion towards each other. It has been a unique holiday for me in that I am helping my 20-year-old daughter get ready for the trip of a lifetime. She is [...]

Dec. 14, 2010 Happy Bitter-Sweet Holidays!

Hi everyone. December is here!  Winter is here! And the Holidays are upon us!  And doesn’t it feel that way sometimes–like they are upon us instead of within us or about us…instead of about love and giving and sharing the joys of all of our uniqueness as humans on the planet and that we are [...]

Nov. 30, 2010 Narcissistic Parents Are The Cause Of Learned Helplessness in Highly Sensitive People (HSPs)

Hi everyone.  Today I want to write about a subject that many of my clients and readers can relate to as Highly Sensitive People with a narcissistic parent.  It is something called Learned Helplessness.  Learned Helplessness is that feeling of powerlessness that we all feel at times, and for some of us it is more pervasive and [...]

November 17, 2010 Holiday Survival Tips and A Poem To My Narcissistic Mother–An HSPs Recovery From Artistic and Creative Self-doubt

Hi everyone.  It’s November!–and there’s a briskness in the air and the  awareness of the holidays approaching.  For many of us highly sensitive survivors that comes with a bitter-sweet feeling–of light and love from God above (the true reason for the season) mixed with the grief of a lost childhood and sad or painful holiday memories of [...]

October 31, 2010 Get Free From The Wicked Witch In Your Life

Hi everyone and Happy Halloween.  Halloween to me and my family is about dressing up in costumes and getting candy and is primarily Fun For The Kids!  I hear the origins of this holiday are about something dark and scary but I don ‘t believe there is any harm in celebrating the FUN part and I think [...]

October 12, 2010 Journaling for Joy and Finding My True Voice In A Poem

Hello to all of you sensitive souls.  I hope you are enjoying this beautiful week of Indian Summer we are having. The news says that most of the U.S. is experiencing gorgeous mild temperatures and colorful changing leaves right now.  It is definitely my favorite time of the year and it feels like such a [...]

September 29, 2010 Part 2–More Helpful Tips for HSPs With A Narcissistic Parent

Hi everyone.  Today I am releasing Part 2 of my More Helpful Tips post for those of you Highly Sensitive Souls trying to figure out how to thrive when you have a narcissistic parent.  It may help for you to review tips 1 through 6 in my last post. To summarize, they were about: your gift of [...]

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