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Highly Sensitive People, People-Pleasing, and Chameleon Syndrome
One of the struggles I hear about often from my Highly Sensitive clients — and one I’ve experienced myself — is something I like to call “chameleon syndrome”. We are so tuned in to others’ emotions and needs that (usually unconsciously) we start to anticipate them and...
Soothe Yourself
One of the most valuable tools we can learn as adults is how to calm our own frayed nervesWhen we were children, our caregivers did this for us...And now we may do it unknowingly (think of how we might long for a hot bath at the end of a rough day)But if we can choose...
Getting Your Needs Met
So you've spent your life taking care of people.. (Whether they asked you to or not) Getting really good at seeing their needs, and even anticipating them And it's hard to turn down the volume on your sensitivity to others' needs... Even though that's required you to...