by Elayne S. Daniels, PhD | Mar 25, 2025 | Highly Sensitive Person
Can changing your thoughts and staying in the present moment help with mental health problems like anorexia nervosa? If you or someone you know struggles with an eating disorder, you may have wondered about this. As a psychologist specializing in eating disorders, I...
by Elayne S. Daniels, PhD | Mar 5, 2025 | Highly Sensitive Person
Highly Sensitive People are inherently aware of darn near everything. They have the basic five senses and then some and register incoming data at superpower levels. But have you ever wondered how the diminishment of a primary sense affects HSPs? Specifically, for this...
by Elayne S. Daniels, PhD | Feb 23, 2025 | Highly Sensitive Person
Twice a year, the equinox gives us perfect balance between night and day. Autumn begins the winding down and descent into stillness. And six months later, as if to reassure us that all is not lost, spring begins the winding up.The Spring Equinox arrives with a waking...
by Elayne S. Daniels, PhD | Feb 19, 2025 | Highly Sensitive Person
“Speak only if it improves upon the silence.” Introverts and card-carrying HSPs don’t need an explanation; this might as well be their mantra. To those with rich inner lives, silence is golden. And that explains, at least on the surface, why small talk and the HSP —...
by Elayne S. Daniels, PhD | Feb 5, 2025 | Highly Sensitive Person
Maybe it’s the new year and the expectations that come with it. Perhaps it’s the remnants of last year that get mushed into January. And perhaps it’s a mish-mash of everything that has me feeling like a victim of my high sensitivity instead of its beneficiary. It...
by Elayne S. Daniels, PhD | Nov 21, 2024 | Body Image Issues, Highly Sensitive Person
Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) have a unique take on the world. They experience things differently and feel things much more intensely than their less sensitive counterparts. Heightened sensitivity, for example, greatly impacts how Highly Sensitive People (HSPs)...
