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
(To skip to the official announcement, click here. 🙂 ) In January of this year, I posted the following tweet: What this week taught me: It’s not always shameful to quit. Sometimes, it’s braver to stop for the right reasons than to continue on for the wrong ones. #FridayReflection #knowyourself By the end of the day, I’d received several likes, …
“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 …
Why do we work ourselves to death? Why do we always look for the next payday? Why do we seek and submit and apply and bend over backwards for a material moment that will pay that bill or buy those groceries or secure that extra day of gas? You don’t? …Me, neither. Wistful melodramatics aside, I always like to read …