Tag Archives: love

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 [...]

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 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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

August 17, 2010 Helpful Tips and Reminders for Highly Sensitive Survivors of a Narcissistic Parent

Hi everyone. Finally a new post!  It’s been a wonderful, eventful summer!  My 20-year-old daughter has been home from college for the summer since May and it has been wonderful spending time with her–probably her last summer living at home with her father and I.  And we just helped my 23-year-old son move into his apartment in the [...]

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 27, 2010 Summer’s Great Expectations–Why Summertime Can Be Difficult for Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) Surviving From A Narcissistic Parent

Hi everyone.  The warm weather is here!  Summer is coming!  Visions of the fun times ahead soaking up the sun, and outdoor activities fill the mind!  The plans, the anticipation, the wonder, and excitement…Yay!  Right?…or instead are you wondering why you are feeling surprisingly “down”?  I have been trying to figure out why I’ve had to fight [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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