If this is true for you,
consider abandoning your attempts
to fit in and be like everyone else.


Self-Care for Highly Sensitive People
It's not easy to live as a highly sensitive person. The empathic brain doesn't filter unnecessary stimuli the way other people's brains do.
Because of this, highly sensitive people tend to take in MORE movement, MORE voices, MORE flashes of color, MORE scents, MORE feelings, MORE energy. Empathic SPDs wear out fast. Their brains use more battery power per minute than the next guy. They tend to get sick more easily than others. Being able to pick up so much sensory and energetic stimulation floods them with more information about the world than other people get - which is FUN! But it can also be exhausting.
You're NOT like everyone else - you're differently-abled.
When you find yourself in an unbearable situation,
instead of forcing yourself to suffer through to the point of
exhaustion, anxiety or panic, choose to care for yourself in new ways.
It's your right, and in fact, it’s your responsibility to yourself
to design your environment in a way that supports your well-being.

Examples of Self-Care
Emotions: Many Empaths feel other people's emotion so exquisitely that it can be hard to tell who the emotion belongs to. Practice asking yourself, "Is this feeling mine, or theirs?"
Merging: Empaths have a tendency to merge with others. Some call it "leaky boundaries", but this label overlays a negative connotation to something which is actually pretty wonderful. Merging with, and feeling another's experience as one's own, isn’t a weakness - it's a superpower! Society just hasn't caught on yet. Take care of yourself by choosing wisely who you merge with.
Sensory Over-stimulation: Just living in your own body can be overstimulating. The feeling of digestion in the belly may be interpreted as a strange, uncomfortable feeling. Pain may be felt more intensely than it is by others. The sound in the ears can be extreme. Being too warm or cold may be too much for the brain to process. Caring for yourself means learning to read the signs your body is giving you. If your internal sensations feel like too much, take a break and sit alone in a quiet place for 20 minutes.
More Wattage: Living in a body may seem simple enough for most people - a non-issue even. But for you, it may take a certain level of purposefully focused attention just to manage it. Because you are starting out of the gate using more attention and energy to manage internal and external stimuli, it means that less is available for regular life. Your brain is literally running more programs than the average human being. Self-care means getting enough rest and alone time. You may need more frequent breaks or to work fewer hours than other people.
Emotions: Many Empaths feel other people's emotion so exquisitely that it can be hard to tell who the emotion belongs to. Practice asking yourself, "Is this feeling mine, or theirs?"
Merging: Empaths have a tendency to merge with others. Some call it "leaky boundaries", but this label overlays a negative connotation to something which is actually pretty wonderful. Merging with, and feeling another's experience as one's own, isn’t a weakness - it's a superpower! Society just hasn't caught on yet. Take care of yourself by choosing wisely who you merge with.
Sensory Over-stimulation: Just living in your own body can be overstimulating. The feeling of digestion in the belly may be interpreted as a strange, uncomfortable feeling. Pain may be felt more intensely than it is by others. The sound in the ears can be extreme. Being too warm or cold may be too much for the brain to process. Caring for yourself means learning to read the signs your body is giving you. If your internal sensations feel like too much, take a break and sit alone in a quiet place for 20 minutes.
More Wattage: Living in a body may seem simple enough for most people - a non-issue even. But for you, it may take a certain level of purposefully focused attention just to manage it. Because you are starting out of the gate using more attention and energy to manage internal and external stimuli, it means that less is available for regular life. Your brain is literally running more programs than the average human being. Self-care means getting enough rest and alone time. You may need more frequent breaks or to work fewer hours than other people.
Love and care for the special body you’ve been given!
You're literally the miracle of human evolution
happening right before the world’s eyes!
Copyright Paige Bartholomew. 2023
happening right before the world’s eyes!
Copyright Paige Bartholomew. 2023
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