What milestones did you reach later than others or later than you thought you would? As a highly sensitive person, you move more slowly throughout your life - procrastinating on everyday tasks, getting stuck in perfectionism, taking longer to make important decisions, and reaching milestones later. Instead of finding ways to speed up which goes against an HSP’s natural rhythm, you can embrace being more intentional and understanding that your natural tendency to pause and reflect is an asset.

As an HSP, you need to live for yourself and not follow someone else’s compass. It’s important to reflect on what you need to honor your sensitivity and how you’re sacrificing yourself to make others feel more comfortable at your expense.       

As another year begins, you get flooded with messages about setting resolutions and making grand changes in your life. Starting this year on your own terms means honoring your needs as a Highly Sensitive Person to make changes more slowly and focus on self-reflection over resolutions.  This approach frees you from the shame of incomplete resolutions and allows you to reconnect with what’s most important.

For highly sensitive people, boundaries can feel intimidating, scary, unfamiliar, and bring up feelings of guilt. If you haven’t built a strong relationship with boundaries yet, slowly ease into the practice setting clear limits - with yourself and others. This will preserve your downtime and ultimately strengthen your relationships.

Having your own timeline as a highly sensitive person is actually a gift in disguise that you can embrace! You may take fewer chances, wait longer to make big decisions, or hit those relationship and work milestones later, but your actions will be well thought out with fewer mistakes.