Emotional Sensitivity and Intensity: How to manage intense emotions as a highly sensitive person - learn more about yourself with this life-changing self help book (Teach Yourself)

In other words, severe difficulty in emotional regulation is not a direct result of being born intense, but a result of two combining factors: 1 Being born with heightened sensitivity and a gift in perceptivity. 2 Living in a deficient childhood environment that fails to meet emotional needs.

Shame is the biggest factor holding you back from authentic living. Having internalized shame, you may try to hide your true self from yourself. When the most passionate, creative and spontaneous part of you goes into hiding, it becomes alienated. In essence, you are trying to forget about part of your truth, by denying your feelings, needs and dri

These children show superior ability to think about global ideas like justice and fairness. Being so intensely aware of world issues and the feelings of others can make them vulnerable to being overwhelmed. In addition, they have to face adult reactions that do not meet their expectations. For example, they may want to help the poor and homeless by

If your parents were neglectful or emotionally unavailable and failed to provide enough mirroring and attunement for your sense of self to fully develop, you may never be quite sure of who you are or where the boundaries are between you and others. Because you never really had the time and space to find out about your wants and needs and to grow in

if you feel that your parent is not respecting your needs, could it be that YOU are not fully respecting your needs? Are YOU allowing others to violate your boundaries by not saying no and by putting yourself in vulnerable situations? Again, do not fall into blaming yourself – the violation is real and difficult – but focus on what you can do about

While the image of the event may not return visually, as it often would if you had post traumatic stress disorder, your emotional flashback may show up in other ways such as negative self-talk, a knot in your stomach, tightness in the chest, or a flood of fear, shame and powerlessness.

As you stop freely expressing yourself, you feel more and more cut off from your natural vitality, and your creativity becomes stifled.

Many gifted individuals have abilities in many areas, known as ‘multipotentiality’. They can often move fluidly from one pursuit to another, though this is often misunderstood by others as being noncommittal.

Childhood wounding does not always take a physical form. Our society typically recognizes the horror of physical child neglect, but not the emotional pain that comes from inadequate or deficient parenting. Psychological damage can happen in all sorts of subtle and invisible ways, from a caregiver’s lack of awareness, subtle put-downs, neglect, and