Tag Archives: shame

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 19, 2010 Helpful Tips About Healing Childhood Pain–From Self-doubt To Finding Your True Purpose

Hi everyone.  I hope you are able to enjoy the beauty in the spring flowering trees and all of the splashes of purple and pink that are so breathtaking–at least they are here where I am located.  Wherever you are, I am grateful for the technology of the internet that helps me to feel as if [...]

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 [...]

Jan. 28, 2010 On Overcoming Self-doubt: The Story Behind My Songs of Hope and Healing

Hi everyone.  Today I am releasing the audio for my song A New Beginning.  To listen click here-> A New Beginning .   I hope you like it. The recording is unedited and done in one take so bear with me.  Improvements are forthcoming.  It ties into my post for the week.  I hope you like it too. *You may listen to [...]

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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