Vibrant Days – May 2025
Vibrant Days… Flourishing with Sensory Processing Sensitivity This came out in Elaine’s newsletter this month. I’m including it since it generated so many thoughts. The Container and the Contained Have you ever thought (at any age) that you are getting older but something in you is not? That you are really the same person you […]
Vibrant Days – April 2025
Vibrant Days… Flourishing with Sensory Processing Sensitivity Dear sensitive souls in Spring, I was on my way home from an errand this morning and spotted the words Nature Center on a sign. I pulled into the parking lot bundled up and headed towards the trail marker. Within 2 minutes I knew I made a wonderful […]
Vibrant Days – March 2025
Vibrant Days… Flourishing with Sensory Processing Sensitivity Greetings Sensitive Souls, I’m listening to a parade of bird sounds and feeling lighter due to the arrival of Spring. Sharing an article today from a colleague who lives, leads and breathes our trait. We had a great chat the other day reminding each other that high sensitivity […]
Vibrant Days – February 2025
Vibrant Days… Flourishing with Sensory Processing Sensitivity How Music Resonates in the Brain Scientists tune in to the brain’s emotional response to music by Allison Eck Watching a movie can be a mesmerizing experience, not just for our eyes — but also for our ears. From The Lord of the Rings series and Schindler’s List to Interstellar and animated films like Mulan, […]
Vibrant Days – January 2025
Vibrant Days… Flourishing with Sensory Processing Sensitivity The Next Storm Comes And suddenly you know: It’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings. —Meister Eckhart And suddenly you know it’s time to shovel the drive. For though snow still falls, at this moment it’s only three inches deep and you can […]
Vibrant Days – November 2024
Vibrant Days… Flourishing with Sensory Processing Sensitivity Came across this relevant idea of energy multipliers. Suleika is a beautiful writer and companion for the soul. Garlic for the Energy Vampires by Suleika Jaouad In the middle of writing Between Two Kingdoms, I got to spend three months as a writer in residence at Jack Kerouac’s […]
Vibrant Days – October 2024
Vibrant Days… Flourishing with Sensory Processing Sensitivity My brain, a Go Pro An errand to the grocery store can bring to mind deep queries of why I’m alive, images of an afterlife, and memories of connection between myself and my parents. I carry this complexity wherever I am. Yesterday I drove past a wheat field […]
Vibrant Days – September 2024
Vibrant Days… Flourishing with Sensory Processing Sensitivity Film series that gripped me. Extraordinary. Thank you Alanis for getting us! Playlist I’m loving: What I’m pondering: You will be free once you realize the cage is made of thoughts. In this together,
Vibrant Days – August 2024
Vibrant Days… Flourishing with Sensory Processing Sensitivity It was my first time hosting a retreat for highly sensitive people. Elaine Aron was gracious to travel to my hometown and be the keynote speaker. A few minutes before starting Elaine and I were standing outside the auditorium giggling how we both desired new hairstyles. I […]
Vibrant Days – July 2024
Vibrant Days… Flourishing with Sensory Processing Sensitivity Getting Away, Alone My Dad loved to giggle and make me giggle. He also didn’t understand my yearning to disappear every few months. He’d grin and quip, “I just don’t get your little escapes to the nunneries. Are you going to tell us what you do there?” […]