a blog for highly sensitive people

“And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.

RAYMOND CARVER

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identity for neurodivergents

Though I’ve always considered myself authentic — I am strongly aware of my emotions and typically honor them, and align my actions with them — more recently I am learning that authenticity is much more complicated than I had assumed. I am wondering which parts of myself are my “core” and which parts I may have thought were “authentic” but were adopted as a way to present myself as neurotypical, or shape-shift in some way to feel acceptance and stave off shame.

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Body As a Path To Knowing the Self

We ignore our bodies and get out of sync with them, but when we tap into them they are sites of symbols. They are holding information that our conscious minds have long forgotten. Especially when what we carry in the body is unprocessed and unintegrated (with our prefrontal cortex – the site of rational thinking), these memories are raw and deep: folds and folds of pink, an inner organ on display, unraveling on a table.

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A Recipe for Self-Acceptance

“Self-compassion is when we turn towards ourselves the way we would to a best friend -- paying attention and listening to them with a tender heart, even through emotional discomfort.”

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