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What makes the brain of a Highly Sensitive Person different?
You are a strange phenomenon to most of the people around you, but also to yourself. Who are you?
Let me give you a few more clues. Who is better than you at reading a room full of strangers at an emotional level? But then, after a busy social interaction, who goes hiding for days just to recharge their empty battery, leaving everybody around them perplexed. Then after days of napping, who comes out wearing their empathetic outfit and goes about saving the world?...

Valerie
Jan 7, 20247 min read


Are HSP aliens?
Are HSP aliens? Of course not ! Maybe it feels like it sometimes, but I see us as humans who were lucky enough to be born with...

Valerie
Jan 4, 20244 min read


The tree-like thinking of highly sensitive people
Tree thinking, linear, intuitive, there are many ways of thinking. Knowing this is important, because this data provides an element of respo

Valerie
Jan 2, 20244 min read


What you need to know about your highly sensitive partner
What you need to know about your highly sensitive partner

Valerie
Dec 27, 20238 min read


Highly sensitive people and the feeling of not being understood
One of the biggest problems with highly sensitive people is that people don't understand them. This is a subject that constantly comes up ..

Valerie
Dec 22, 20235 min read


How HSP make the world a better place
How HSP make the world a better place. This might sound presumptuous, but highly sensitive people have unique characteristics that could...

Valerie
Dec 18, 20239 min read


The different phases when you learn that you are highly sensitive
The different phases when you learn that you are highly sensitive. I have just learned that I am highly sensitive... what now?

Valerie
Dec 15, 20233 min read


Highly Sensitive People: Beware of energy leaks!
Drained? Irritated ? Not only do you feel like you're never really progressing, but you're also constantly tired? What if you had an ...

Valerie
Dec 11, 202311 min read


Testimony: one of my biggest challenges, empathy to the power of 10!
Testimony: one of my biggest challenges, empathy to the power of 10!

Valerie
Dec 8, 20238 min read


Detail-oriented, HSP second nature
Detail-oriented, HSP second nature
A skill that comes naturally to a highly sensitive person (HSP) is attention to detail. It’s second nature. As a highly sensitive person, your sensitivity to your surroundings cannot be matched. You are a detail-oriented, meticulous person, able to notice the smallest anomaly, and detect subtleties that others might miss.

Valerie
Dec 4, 20233 min read


HSP decision paralysis
HSP decision paralysis. In life, we are all faced with constant choices, and therefore have to make decisions at every moment...

Valerie
Dec 1, 20239 min read


HSP aversion to violence
Highly sensitive people and empaths react strongly to violence because they absorb emotional signals more intensely than others.

Valerie
Nov 29, 20234 min read


Small talk, a challenge for HSP
Between a world that never stops talking, and that of highly sensitive people who never stop thinking, there is silence.

Valerie
Nov 27, 20234 min read


Sensory input overwhelm
Sensory input overwhelm. For highly sensitive people, the world can often seem connected to an amplifier.

Valerie
Nov 26, 20232 min read


The Science behind Empathy
The science behind empathy shows that the brains of hypersensitive people and empaths are connected for other people.

Valerie
Nov 22, 20236 min read


How to stop your brain from overthinking?
Blah Blah Blah… Blah Blah Blah… The brains of highly sensitive people never stop! This is a very common problem among very sensitive people.

Valerie
Nov 20, 20235 min read


Being sensitive is NOT being fragile.
Being sensitive is NOT being fragile. I would really like us to stop associating sensitivity with fragility.

Valerie Lavoisard
Nov 19, 20232 min read


A beautiful metaphor for empaths: the tuning fork
A beautiful metaphor for empaths: the tuning fork

Valerie Lavoisard
Nov 17, 20233 min read


Your bad mood is trying to talk to you
There are simply days when you wake up on the wrong foot and you don't know why.

Valerie
Nov 6, 20239 min read


The 11 signs of genuine empathy that can’t be faked
True empathy can’t be faked. It shows up in how someone listens, supports, and connects… consistently, quietly, and sincerely. This article reveals 11 unmistakable signs of real empathy, and how to tell the difference between those who care deeply and those who only pretend to.

Valerie Lavoisard
Oct 23, 202312 min read
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