
I came across this passage by Heidi Priebe recently that felt really useful to me. I thought I would share it in case it connects with you too:
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By: Ritu Kaushalcomment

I came across this passage by Heidi Priebe recently that felt really useful to me. I thought I would share it in case it connects with you too:
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We have been reading Ilse Sand’s book Highly Sensitive People in an Insensitive World in The Highly Sensitive Creative Book Club. As it often does, some ideas from the book jumped out at me.
One was when Ilse Sand talked about how highly sensitive people often lack faith in our own worth:
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For the last few years, again and again, I have had this thought pop up in my mind, “I want to go home.” It took me a while to realize that this longing for home was symbolic of a longing to feel “at home” with myself & others and not a need to physically move somewhere new.
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I love great questions. Sometimes, even more than facts, questions can nudge you in the right direction. And if the question is framed “just so,” it can start a train of associations.
I especially love journaling questions.
And I found some great ones recently in psychologist Lori L Cangilla’s lovely guided journal, Wander and Delve, a journal for “bright, creative, highly sensitive people forging their way.” There is so much good stuff in it!
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I wrote recently about getting more & more interested in the “inner child” topic. As I’ve been thinking about it, I realized how, in my night-time dreams, my inner child doesn’t actually often look like my child-self.
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