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5 Tips to cope with news anxiety
News anxiety is a real and growing challenge - especially for highly sensitive people. When you feel the world deeply, constant exposure to distressing headlines can leave you emotionally flooded and overwhelmed. In this article, I share honest reflections from my own experience as an HSP, along with practical, grounded strategies for staying informed without burning out. If the news feels like too much lately, you're not alone - and there are gentler ways to navigate it.

Valerie
Aug 18, 20256 min read


Red Flags of Narcissism - a grandiose sense of arrogance and self-importance
Discover the grandiose world of narcissism in this insightful article about one of their biggest red flags: an overinflated sense of self-importance. Learn how this arrogance masks deeper insecurities, the psychology behind it, and its impact on relationships. Spot the signs and take control of your emotional well-being.

Valerie
Jun 28, 20253 min read


Top Struggles of Highly Sensitive People (HSP) and how Coaching helps
Being highly sensitive can feel overwhelming, but coaching offers tailored support to help HSPs manage challenges like anxiety, toxic relationships, and overthinking - empowering them to thrive with confidence and balance.

Valerie
Jun 17, 20256 min read


Smiling Depression - The hidden struggle behind the smile
When people think of depression, they often picture someone visibly sad, withdrawn, or struggling to manage daily life. This common perception can overshadow a more subtle and hidden form of suffering - what’s often referred to as "smiling depression." While not a formal diagnosis, smiling depression is a real experience for many people, characterized by masking emotional pain behind an outwardly cheerful demeanor.

Valerie
Jun 3, 20254 min read


5 Essentials every HSP needs to thrive
As an HSP, it can feel like you aren’t doing it right. Other people are doing just fine, why aren’t you? Turns out, you have different needs - your brain is wired differently. Most people don’t need what you do, and that’s ok. You’re not wrong. You are amazing, in fact. You just have to pay attention to what it is that you need.

Valerie
May 20, 20255 min read


Empathy’s Shadow: Recognizing and Healing Emotional Hypervigilance
Do you ever feel like you’re carrying the emotional weight of the world on your shoulders? Like an emotional sponge, you absorb everything around you - every subtle change in someone’s tone, every sigh, every flicker of emotion. You might resonate with terms like empath or hyper-empath, finding validation in the way they describe your heightened sensitivity. But does naming it really solve the problem?
The reality is more complex. What you’re experiencing is emotional hypervi

Valerie
May 13, 20254 min read


Dealing with grief as a HSP
Grief touches every soul at some point, but for those who identify as Highly Sensitive People, the experience can feel especially raw, complex, and all-encompassing. Grief is never easy - it is a profoundly human experience filled with pain, longing, and transformation. Whether you’re mourning the death of a loved one or navigating the sorrow of another kind of loss, allowing yourself space to feel and heal is essential. For HSP, that process often looks and feels very differ

Valerie
Apr 22, 20256 min read


The hidden challenge sensitive souls face that they don't realize
The hidden challenge highly sensitive people and empaths face that they don't realize.

Valerie
Apr 15, 20254 min read


What emotions are trying to tell us
Emotional awareness is the ability to recognize and understand your own feelings.

Valerie
Apr 8, 20256 min read


Anticipatory Anxiety: Anxiety about having anxiety
Do you often find yourself overwhelmed by worries about the future, caught in an endless cycle of “what-ifs”?

Valerie
Apr 1, 20256 min read


The suffering of highly sensitive people
Highly sensitive people are people who suffer and who often suffer in silence, ... generally away from the world. So if it is not seen, if it is not heard, this suffering is nevertheless very real, and if no one takes it into account, well it can give rise to dramas. So how do we get out of it? That's what we're going to see together. But first, we're going to see why highly sensitive people are often in pain.

Valerie
Feb 11, 202510 min read


How High Sensitivity can become a challenge
When high sensitivity is unrecognized, it can lead to coping mechanisms that can create challenges and lead to mechanisms of adaptation.

Valerie
Feb 4, 20254 min read


The challenge of Savior Syndrome in Highly Sensitive People
Savior syndrome is a challenge for Highly Sensitive People but it isn’t an unchangeable part of you.

Valerie
Jan 28, 20254 min read


Guide to embracing your authentic self
Being authentic enables us to remain true to ourselves and trust the choices we make. Authentic individuals do not let external influences dictate their decisions; instead, they forge their own paths, staying attuned to their desires and dislikes. Yet, as with many ideals, embodying authenticity is often easier said than done.

Valerie
Jan 21, 20255 min read


Stop being selfish!
The title of this article must have made you frown, maybe even bristle. But yes, today I really wanted to shake you up a little and tell...

Valerie
Nov 13, 20243 min read


How to live “in alignment" with your sensitivity.
Each of us has needs, HSP or not.
Too often, our needs are neglected whether we are highly sensitive or not, again.

Valerie
Aug 9, 20244 min read


Burn-out, a real risk for Highly Sensitive People
Even if fatigue is a problem that affects almost all highly sensitive people, burn-out is on a whole other level and must be avoided.

Valerie
Jul 10, 20246 min read


Are my Symptoms related to my High Sensitivity?
We often talk about high sensitivity in terms of psychological, emotional, and behavioral traits, but it’s so much more than that. High...

Valerie
Jun 13, 20245 min read


How to know if you need a coach
There are times in our lives when we wonder if we need a coach. Certainly it has become fashionable and very widespread, and there are coach

Valerie
Jun 6, 20244 min read


Highly Sensitive People: breaking the habit of being a people-pleaser
Are you a die-hard “yes” person? So welcome to the people-pleaser club. You are one of the people who want at all costs to be loved and who thrive on the joy of others. Is this evil in itself? No. Admirable? Certainly. Healthy? Not necessarily. It's one thing to like to bring joy to those around you, but sometimes that goes too far, so far as to go against our own desires.

Valerie
Jan 13, 20246 min read
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