How to Process Anger for Healing

How to process anger for healing

Are you ready to move beyond anger management and into anger transformation? Learn how to listen to your anger, honor its wisdom, and channel its energy into a more fulfilling life.

Overcoming People-Pleasing as a Highly Sensitive Person

Overcoming People-Pleasing as a Highly Sensitive Person

Not that I’m always looking for silver linings (because I feel that’s largely unhelpful) but this time I found one in overcoming people pleasing as a highly-sensitive person. This flare up showed me where my people-pleasing has gotten much more sneaky.

Often when we talk about people pleasing, we think of:

Agreeing to something even though we don’t have the time, energy or mental white space for it
Offering to help even when we didn’t give ourselves a chance to think about it
Bending over backwards to make sure someone else is happy. Even if it comes at the cost of our own wellbeing and mental health
Changing how you show up with a different group of people to fit in (when you go against who you really are in order to feel accepted)

This time, my Inner People-Pleaser was so much more sneaky. 

Essentialism for highly sensitive people: Over Minimalism

essentialism for highly sensitive people. I had a friend at one of the pediatric ICUs I used to work with that was a minimalist.

Typically, when we think about this simplification, we come across the concept of minimalism. However, minimalism may not be quite as effective as essentialism for highly sensitive people.Typically, when we think about this simplification, we come across the concept of minimalism. However, minimalism may not be quite as effective as essentialism for highly sensitive people.

Meditation for High Achievers

Meditation is tough, especially when you’re a high achiever. Stay with me while we talk about meditation for high achievers
There, I said it.
I’ve been practicing meditation for almost 20 years and it’s still wickedly hard for me to do.

Gratitude Practice: What I do instead of daily gratitude practice

Gratitude Practice: What I do instead of daily gratitude practice

Objectivity is a core value of mine. So maybe that’s also a reason why I don’t resonate with the typical daily gratitude practice. To me gratitude practice just seems too forced. Too focused on finding a silver lining – which often discounts the struggles we may be facing.