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Vibrant Days – February 2024

Vibrant Days… Flourishing with Sensory Processing Sensitivity   The reason little noises drive you mad is about more than sounds Fascinating research into ‘misophonia’ – an intolerance to specific sounds – is revealing an important role for context When Megan Davies was around 11 years old, family dinners became acutely torturous. It was the sounds […]

Vibrant Days – January 2024

Vibrant Days… Flourishing with Sensory Processing Sensitivity January 2024 Hello Friends, As my feet carry me further into January I’m seeing how potent the truths in this post are (Instagram). To consider that what I pay attention to will expand motivates me to pay attention to what I’m paying attention to! Oh and let’s have […]

Vibrant Days – December 2023

Vibrant Days… Flourishing with Sensory Processing Sensitivity December 2023 Greetings dear friends, I’m praising the quiet of the moment. Why do I feel victorious that I discovered silence in December? Each December my brain compiles a “best of list” of being highly sensitive. It’s a list in progress. It’s strange how I’m often aware of […]

Vibrant Days – November 2023

Vibrant Days… Flourishing with Sensory Processing Sensitivity November 2023 I’ve begun to reflect on my year and realized at the top of my list is the option to appreciate. That I get to! Not only is there always something to appreciate but that doing so alters something within and can even direct my attention to […]

Vibrant Days – October 2023

Vibrant Days… Flourishing with Sensory Processing Sensitivity October 2023 Hello Sensitive Friends, Thinking of you as it feels odd putting things on the November calendar. The magnificent leaves that demanded my attention are suddenly all over the ground. It felt bittersweet ending our last group outside. The river and all that surrounds it made for […]

Vibrant Days – September 2023

Vibrant Days… Flourishing with Sensory Processing Sensitivity September 2023  What I’m thinking about these days: Fall is a smorgasbord for the senses: milder temps, swirling geese, the sound of leaves under my shoes on the trail, outside and inside fires. Packing for a trip: why does it now take 3 times as long to pack for […]

Vibrant Days – August 2023

Vibrant Days… Flourishing with Sensory Processing Sensitivity August 2023 Creating love in the lab: The 36 questions that spark intimacy By Yasmin Anwar Arthur and Elaine Aron working together during their younger years (photo courtesy of Arthur Aron) Around the time of the Summer of Love in 1967, Arthur Aron, then a UC Berkeley graduate […]

Vibrant Days – July 2023

Vibrant Days… Flourishing with Sensory Processing Sensitivity July 2023 Introversion, Extroversion And The Highly Sensitive Person According to the documentary Sensitive: The Untold Story, there are 1.4 billion highly sensitive people (HSPs) in the world (15-20% of the population). As Elaine Aron’s research has shown, 30% of that 15-20% of the HSP population are sensitive extroverts – […]

Vibrant Days – June 2023

Vibrant Days… Flourishing with Sensory Processing Sensitivity June 2023 Summer is here. Like many of you I hold memories of lemonade stands, family vacations, waiting in line for ice cream, entire days spent outside and living with a lighter spirit. These days I’m playing in my flower garden, paying extra attention to the birds at […]

Vibrant Days – May 2023

Vibrant Days… Flourishing with Sensory Processing Sensitivity May 2023 Choose joy. Choose it like a child chooses the shoe to put on the right foot, the crayon to paint a sky. Choose it at first consciously, effortfully, pressing against the weight of a world heavy with reasons for sorrow, restless with need for action. Feel […]