Vibrant Days Newsletter

Vibrant Days… Flourishing with Sensory Processing Sensitivity June 2022 Three Ways to View the Sunset Father Richard describes how a simple experience such as viewing a sunset can be an opportunity for contemplative “third-eye” seeing:   Three people stood by the ocean, looking at the same sunset. One saw the immense physical beauty and enjoyed the […]

Vibrant Days… Flourishing with Sensory Processing Sensitivity May 2022 3 Ways to Make the Most of Each and Every Day https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fulfillment-any-age/202205/3-ways-make-the-most-each-and-every-day?eml Wisdom that is changing me: that I have a choice in how I respond is lifesaving for me. Suleika’s writings have made a hearty indent on my insides this year. Stimulus & Response On […]

Vibrant Days… Flourishing with Sensory Processing Sensitivity April 2022 What Doctors Don’t Tell You https://www.candycrawfordlcsw.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/What-Doctors-Dont-Tell-You.pdf Anyone else struggle with early morning anxiety? The learning continues, some of these learns become lifetime tasks. My new favorite performer. One day I hope to meet this man. This performance opened me up in a 100 ways! What I’m […]

Vibrant Days… Flourishing with Sensory Processing Sensitivity March 2022 Why HSPs Tend to Be Exceptional Listeners What I needed to be reminded of, mini tantrums are not only ok but healthy. Song I have on repeat. Can’t listen without goosebumps. And suddenly it became Spring…     What I’m pondering The Uses of Sorrow (In […]

Vibrant Days… Flourishing with Sensory Processing Sensitivity February 2022 Switching from an HSP, wait, to having HSI what? Hi, my name is Candy Crawford and I have high sensory intelligence.  Dr. Tracy Cooper’s groundbreaking new label for the highly sensitive person. Why I am now using the term High Sensory Intelligence instead of Highly Sensitive […]

Vibrant Days… Flourishing with Sensory Processing Sensitivity January 2022 Archetypal Vulnerability or Availability? By Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D. I have to confess that I find life very painful sometimes, and perhaps you do too. It helps me to think about this in the light of C. J. Jung’s analytical psychology, which posits an archetypal world […]

Vibrant Days… Flourishing with Sensory Processing Sensitivity December 2021 Wintering: The power of rest and retreat in difficult times “We enter that strange period between Christmas and New Year, when time seems to muddle, and we find ourselves asking again and again, What day is it? What date? I always mean to work on these […]

Vibrant Days… Flourishing with Sensory Processing Sensitivity November 2021 Sitting at the Edge of What Is The poet David Whyte speaks about the courage to step outside your door to meet the unknown, and then to belong in the way only you can. It’s a call to shift our focus from what might have been, […]

Vibrant Days… Flourishing with Sensory Processing Sensitivity October 2021 How to Train Your Mind Away from Anxiety By Dr. Jud Brewer, Director of Research at Brown University Mindfulness Center Needless to say, anxiety is on the rise right now. The continuing pandemic and the prospect of a Delta Variant winter; climate change; political uncertainty — […]

Vibrant Days… Flourishing with Sensory Processing Sensitivity September 2021 The Thousand Faces of Dissociation In our current era of collective trauma, mental health issues are becoming a part of daily conversation. In spite of this increased exposure to concepts of stress, trauma, anxiety and mental illness, many terms are misunderstood within our popular culture. A […]