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Living Your Authentic Life May Mean You Look Or Sound Or Feel A Little Weird
I know that authenticity is important to you. Truth. Clarity. Open-heartedness. Depth. Beauty. Integrity. Knowing who you are. Living the life you were born to live. But how do you manage to be authentic when your natural intensity overwhelms others? When you are told to slow down and stop asking so many questions. When no…
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What’s Joy Got To Do With It?
My 29-year-old, almost-too-pretty, super smart acupuncturist told me I need to find joy. “Joy shmoy,” I said. Not to her. She’s so young. But, really. Joy? When California is burning? Polar ice caps are melting? Birds are disappearing? Maybe especially because of these events. I was telling my almost-too-pretty super smart acupuncturist, let’s call her…
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Life is Calling You to Embrace Your Intense, Insightful, Introspective Path(s)
“Your unusual life path is a summon from Life. Intense people are positioned to be the game-changers, the truth-tellers, and the fierce lovers of the world. By nature, you are the pioneers and the questioners and the progressives whose role in the world is to bring forth the realities which others do not yet see or…
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If I’m So Smart, Why Do I Feel So Lost and Alone?
There are times when you just want to scream. Even though you’re a pacifist. Even though your instinct is to be compassionate and understanding. Even though you have empathy that overwhelms you. There are those days when you just want to say, “Why are there so many f—ed up, insensitive, clueless, exasperating people in the…
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A Love Letter to You and Your Rainforest Mind
Dear One. Yes, you. With that dazzlingly intense rainforest mind. You have so much Courage. To be here, on this planet, during such tumultuous times. To stay sensitive, empathetic, and compassionate. To perceive and feel the human layers of suffering, despair, rage, fear, and sorrow. To stay open to your deepest emotions. To speak out…
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Dealing with Anxiety When You Are a Highly Sensitive Overthinker*
There are so many reasons to be anxious these days. So many reasons. What’s a sensitive, empathetic, intuitive, analytical person to do? I don’t need to tell you what there is to be anxious about. You are quite aware of the little things and the big things and all of the things in between. You…
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Finding Your *Wild Self* and Living Your Deeper Life
“The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you…
YOUR RAINFOREST MIND
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