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What does being a Highly Sensitive Person HSP mean?

Anyone who’s highly sensitive owes a debt of thanks to one lady: Elaine N. Aron. It was Dr Aron who, in the 1980s, first coined the term ‘highly sensitive’ in her book The Highly Sensitive Person. Read more…

James Williams
Family Dynamics

The Day I Became the Mother my Sons Need Me to Be

I have written before about how life changing it is to discover that your child is highly sensitive – that you can finally put a name to the behaviours and traits you see in your Read more…

Amanda van Mulligen
Family Dynamics

The Precarious Balancing Act of Parenting Multiple Highly Sensitive Children in A Family

When your family is a mish-mash of varying degrees of highly sensitive, finding a middle path through takes patience. Finding the right balance takes work and time. My eldest son is a classic HSC and Read more…

Amanda van Mulligen
Family Dynamics

Our Introduction to the Highly Sensitive

Guest post by Colette Greene, Community member When my husband and I had our second child, we were thrilled.  She was a bit fussy, but I wrote it off as her just doing what babies Read more…

Colette
Family Dynamics

Understanding the Highly Sensitive Child

In 2014, shortly after relocating my family to an idyllic South Devon village near Totnes and Torbay, I wrote and published my first book. My inspirations were my own experiences as a highly sensitive person Read more…

James Williams

James Williams

Dad of lovely daughters, Counsellor, Mentor and Author of books about highly sensitive children. Nurturing sensitivity and mental well-being.

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