Category Archives: emotionally numb

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

July 21, 2010 Perfectionism, The Highly Sensitive Person, and How Grieving Our Childhood Pain Is Essential To Healing

  Hi everyone.  I hope you are enjoying the summer.  I hope you are not heaping lists of  ”shoulds” on yourself (home improvements etc.) to accomplish–only to realize, “What was I thinking?!  I can’t do all this stuff!–the KIDS are home!”  ha ha.  Yes I remember, and I still do it somewhat but this summer is SO [...]

May 13, 2010 Voicing And Releasing Righteous Anger–A Guide For Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) With A Narcissistic Parent

Hi everyone.  I am still feeling drained by my many May events but I wanted to share with you some of my reactions to Mother’s Day and my Mother’s Birthday.  My goal was to hang on and get through it and “stay strong” was my motto, so I was a little surprised that rather than have to [...]

April 12, 2010 You Don’t Need To Forgive Someone Who Is Not Sorry–Foregiveness Is For Your “Self”

Hi everyone.  The surge of pollen in the air has me a little under the weather so I apologize for not writing a post sooner.  I have been wanting to share my song “Help Me to Forgive” for a while, but I wanted to explain what I mean by forgiveness because it can be such [...]

March 26, 2010 How My Best Counselor Helped Me to Break Through My Illusions and Self-doubt

Hi everyone. Yay it’s Spring!  I hope you are enjoying the beauty of nature as it comes to life again.  That’s how I’m feeling too–as if I am coming to life–happier than I’ve ever been in my life.   And it is a new feeling–I catch myself out of habit being tensed up in my shoulders [...]

Mar. 1, 2010 From the Heart of an Obedient Child: The Painful Legacy Left Behind

Hi everyone.  I am away on vacation.  So I am taking a short break from writing a post–but in keeping with the same subjects in my posts of late, I decided to share with you a poem I wrote about 2 years ago.  I hope you like it.    Love, Elaine     FROM THE HEART OF [...]

Feb. 20, 2010 Moving on from a Narcissistic Parent–A Former Obedient Child’s Fight For Freedom

Jan. 21, 2010 Childhood Pain Comes Up to Heal When Things Are Going Well

Hi everyone.  The day after I released my post on No More Guilt you might be able to guess what happened–I woke up in the morning with the dreaded feeling of Guilt like a black cloud hanging over my head.  In the past I might have felt guilty and spiraled into negativity but thank goodness [...]

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