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”, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
September 15, 2010 More Helpful Tips–For Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) With A Narcissistic Parent–Part 1
Hi everyone. As highly sensitive people, many of you are struggling with how to cope with your relationship with your narcissistic parent and your unsupportive siblings and extended family. First of all I want to tell you that I understand your pain and how hard it is. There is very little support in our society for [...]
June 30, 2010 The Misjudgment of Introverts and the True Meaning of Introversion
Hi everyone. The Fourth of July is coming soon! I hope you are able to enjoy Independence Day with the knowledge that you are a special highly sensitive person (HSP) and you deserve Independence and Freedom from your guilt-inducing, belittling, or controlling narcissistic parent. Because this is typically a family holiday, it can bring with it memories and childhood [...]
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 [...]
APRIL 1, 2010 Guilt At Easter Time–and How To Cope If You Are Enforcing Boundaries On Your Narcissistic Parent
Hi everyone. Here comes Easter and some of you may be experiencing some guilt about not getting along with your families of origin (FOO). My family did not have deep traditions at Easter–just Easter baskets that naturally stopped when I got older and not much pressure to call or get together with extended family. But my husband [...]
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. 12, 2010 Overcoming the Guilt From Standing Up To a Narcissitic Parent
Hi everyone. Surprise! I changed my “theme”–the look of the page–so you can read the text easier. I liked the pink but this one is nice too. I hope you like it! Please leave a comment if you have a preference. I have some great news. I went to my chiropractor and for the first time [...]
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 [...]
Jan.14, 2010 No More Guilt!
Hi everyone. It’s a new year and it feels great because this is the first time in my life that I have ignored a guilt-inducing email and phone call from my mother. And I don’t feel guilty! This is big. I feel a new sense of freedom and aliveness and inner peace. What will happen? [...]
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