HeyJaredThe HSP Chronicles
The trials, tribulations and triumphs of living as a highly sensitive person
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Navigating Our World as Highly Sensitive People (opens the original)
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When I was probably in my teens or 20s, I recall one of my parents remarking that my paternal grandfather had some time in the past wondered aloud how I’d ever make it in life. As a kid, I was painfully shy and anxious though few people then talked in terms of anyone much less a child suffering from anxiety. Today we’re much more open about mental health challenges and that is certainly a good thing.This week I continued to try to help my own child, nearly 20, navigate the world and find a path
Those Things We Do (opens the original)
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Over the last week, I’ve been reminded of two things about how I approach life based on my temperament. If you’re reading this blog, perhaps they will resonate with you as well. A reminder that our temperament is really about how we receive and process information and how we interact with the world. I was also reminded how, despite our best efforts, things don’t always, shall we say, work out the way we intend. Bumping up against that reality when we’ve put in so much emotional or mental energy
Remembering 9/11 and Other Things We Recall (opens the original)
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On 9/11/2001, my son, born in 2006 wasn’t even an apple in my eye. Around 100 million Americans alive today have no living memory of the terrorist attacks committed by hijackers that day aboard four commercial airplanes. Two of those planes that toppled the World Trade Center towers, one that dove into the Pentagon and one which crashed in a field in western Pennsylvania thanks to heroic airline staff and passengers who thwarted the hijackers’ effort to reach our nation’s capitol. As we memorial
A Reflection on Feminism (opens the original)
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In the wake of the death of 92-year-old feminist icon Gloria Steinem this past week, a friend asked me whether I considered myself a feminist. As per usual, someone hits me with an unexpected question that to me bears a great deal of thought and my mind scatters to a thousand things, so I punted the question with an answer something like “generally so”. I guess the hangup for me is that the term has become so broad and so fraught over the decades we (women and the men supporting our efforts) hav
How Inhabiting the Experience of Others Reveals Profound Truths (opens the original)
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Living in the sunny southern U.S., our summer’s been long and hot and dry. Though more typical for us, I know much of Europe has been experiencing uncharacteristic heat as well. The difference is perhaps our better air conditioning, something many of us here take for granted. This weather has seen me busy, valiantly trying to keep the many trees and bushes I’ve planted in my yard this year alive. Though I’ve tried my hand at gardening for many a year at this point, I consider myself something of
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