Eliminate Social Burnout with Fewer, But More Meaningful Connections
Are you burning yourself out and sacrificing meaningful connection by socializing too often? Highly sensitive people crave deep connections which are only possible when you rest in between and take a quality over quantity approach to your relationships.
Exaggerating Your Feelings to Be Taken Seriously
A common boundary strategy for HSPs is to amplify what you’re feeling or escalate the severity of your needs to be understood. Exaggerating a bit is a form of self-protection because it may feel safer saying no with an “excuse” - giving some compelling reason that justifies your need to the other person. It also saves you from hearing “it’s no big deal” or “you’re too sensitive”.
The Loneliness of Feeling Misunderstood as an HSP
Being misunderstood as a highly sensitive person is common because most people in your life don’t have the same type of attuned nervous system that you do or need the same amount of downtime and recharging. The solution is not to bend beyond your bandwidth, but to communicate your needs and experiences more clearly.
Moving Past Self-Doubt as an HSP and Trusting Yourself Again
When you’ve been told your emotions and perceptions are wrong, you can’t help but begin to question yourself. Every instinct, feeling, thought becomes uncertain and confusing. Your feelings will often be different than others and you will often know things without knowing why. This is part of your gift of being born highly sensitive - more aware, intuitive, emotionally attuned to your environment and the people around you.