This comprehensive guide explores the intersection of high sensitivity and yogic breathing practices. It validates the neurobiological challenges HSPs face while providing evidence-based solutions through pranayama techniques. The post explains how yogic breathing directly activates the parasympathetic nervous system, offering concrete benefits including reduced anxiety, improved emotional regulation, better sleep, enhanced focus, increased resilience, and grounding. Rather than suggesting HSPs need to become less sensitive, the post reframes their sensitivity as a gift that requires proper nervous system support. It concludes by naturally introducing a specialized course on yogic breathing practices designed specifically for highly sensitive people, positioning it as the next logical step for readers seeking guidance and deeper learning.

If you're both highly sensitive and introverted, you've likely spent years overriding your own needs - saying yes when you mean no, pushing through exhaustion, minimising your sensitivity to make others comfortable. You've become an expert at self-abandonment without even realizing it. While tender self-compassion (being kind to yourself) is important, it's not enough. Highly sensitive introverts also need fierce self-compassion - the courage to protect yourself, set boundaries without guilt, speak up for your needs, and refuse to participate in your own diminishment. This isn't about being aggressive; it's about being fiercely loyal to your own wellbeing. Learn what fierce self-compassion looks like in practice, how to start using it in your daily life, and why Mindful Self-Compassion offers both the tender and fierce skills that sensitive introverts need to stop abandoning themselves and start thriving.

As a highly sensitive person, you've probably spent years trying to fix yourself - meditating more, setting better boundaries, working on resilience. But what if the trying itself is the problem? Discover why HSPs need to stop "doing" and learn to "be" instead, and how Mindful Self-Compassion offers embodied skills to meet your struggles with kindness rather than judgment. Registration for my upcoming MSC course closes Thursday.

You've tried meditation, set boundaries, and worked on positive thinking - but as a highly sensitive person, you're still overwhelmed. It's not because you're doing it wrong. Standard solutions weren't designed for how HSPs are actually wired. Discover why mindful self-compassion is fundamentally different and might finally offer the relief you've been seeking.

Are you a highly sensitive person exhausted by self-judgment and a loud inner critic? Learn why mindful self-compassion is crucial for HSPs and how it transforms overwhelm into resilience and inner peace.

It’s probably not a surprise to you that meditation is beneficial for our health and wellbeing. It seems quite obvious to even say it because YES, we all KNOW meditation is good for us and we should do it more! But most people still shy away from setting up their meditation practice, probably because a) they think it’s boring and not for them b) they cannot sit still or “empty their thoughts” (which is not even needed but this myth sticks hard) or c) they think this kind of “non-doing” is only suitable for people who are serious about spiritual pursuits.

It’s not easy to set up a meditation or mindfulness practice that supports our wellbeing. But when we do manage to stay somewhat consistent with the practice, the results are visible, and they are many. In this article I break down 5 lesser known impacts and benefits of meditation.

If you’re a highly sensitive person (HSP), you might be more than familiar with these 10 common mistakes (I know I certainly am! Some of them I keep doing on a daily basis despite my best efforts!).

These HSP habits and mistakes are costing us a lot as HSPs. They are definitely NOT helping us to reduce overwhelm and balance our sensitive nervous system, or to set us up for a life where we can thrive as sensitive people in this chaotic world filled with constant sensory overload.

Life as a highly sensitive person (HSP) is not easy breezy most of the time, especially at times when it feels there’s so much chaos and suffering. During challenging times, it’s even more important than ever that we, as HSPs, take care of ourselves and our sensitive nervous systems. Asking these three questions daily helps you to ground, connect and calm your nervous system as a HSP.

We take around 26,000 breaths a day without really even noticing. But the way we breathe has several deep effects on how we feel in our bodies and in our minds, especially as highly sensitive persons (HSPs). Our breath reflects our mental and emotional states - when we are stressed out and anxious, our breathing tends to become more shallow. We mainly use the upper part of our lungs and do what is called “thoracic breath”. This then sends stress signals to our brain and body, causing us to feel even more overwhelmed and anxious, with the sympathetic fight/flight/freeze system being activated.

Feeling like everyone else has their shit together and knows what they are doing? Like most things you have accomplished in life and work are mainly due to “luck”, and any minute now people will find out that you have been faking it all along and are a fraud? Imposter syndrome affects at least 70% of us - and HSPs are more likely to struggle with imposter thinking than others.

As highly sensitive persons (HSPs), our nervous system is wired a bit differently from non-HSPs, and it’s often on overdrive. We are constantly processing internal and external stimuli - our emotions, thoughts, the noises on the street and in the office, the bright halogen lights, cars honking, the buzz in shopping malls, other people around us. It can all get very overwhelming, fast. This is why it’s so important that we learn how to balance and regulate our nervous system.