Living and loving as a highly sensitive introvert and empath in an extroverted world
Living and loving as a highly sensitive introvert and empath in an extroverted world
Click here to go straight to my 2020 New Year’s “resolves”! It’s an interesting revelation to realize well into your adulthood that you are pretty much unchanged, personality-wise, from when you were a child. If you were neat as a kid, instinctively putting your toys away after playing, you probably still find sweet pleasure in maintaining that cleanliness in your …
I’m more excited than I should be typing this, but I can’t help it. By this time tomorrow, I will be out of Atlanta and in the company of my sisters, my mother, and my nephew on the other side of the country. It will be my first real chance to step away and review the true status of my …
Good days can sneak up on you, nice and slow. But when they arrive, they glow as bright and as warm as the morning sun.
Let’s jump right in–I am fascinated by the concept of love languages. They’re not just applicable to romantic relationships–oh, no. Everyone you know and meet has a set order of preferences to their languages. And if you can be perceptive enough to learn what that order is, you’ve possibly earned the faith of a family member/friend/coworker/mother/brother/child for a long, long …
On December 23, 2015, at approximately 5 o’clock in the morning, I was on the road in my trusty 2002 Grand Am, pushing through holiday traffic toward my mother’s home, seven hours away. My radio was humming from my mixed CD, and the night around me glittered with the headlights of my fellow travelers. Then, in the form of a …
…the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that hammering is hard work. It’s that you’re damaging the peg.” –Paul Collins It was a concern that I’ve been pondering a lot lately, but it lifted to the forefront of my memory when my friends and I were reviewing an old quiz that I had taken when …
“You’re probably hypersensitive,” my counselor told me two weeks ago. “But, I just found out several months ago that I’m a severe introvert,” I thought. “And, I suffer from anxiety and depression. And, I haven’t regularly been around large amounts of people my own age since, like, college.” If it wasn’t happening to me, I probably would have rolled my eyes …
“Everybody walks their own path. These paths may touch, they may intersect, and they may even merge for a length of time. They will never, however, be exactly the same path.” B-ism, 07/17/2012 I have a confession to make. I’m afraid of becoming a published author. I’m afraid of what will happen. I’m afraid of what it will mean. I …