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What Happens When We Focus Only on the Light and Forget the Shadow

In short, avoiding our shadows stunts our growth toward our highest potential.

The emotional messiness we experience is often the result of emotional avoidance. The more we push away, the more they pile on top of each other.

Staying Human in the Age of AI

Yet I’m aware of the consequences of becoming dependent on AI—just as we’ve become dependent on GPS, smartphones, and Google. We slowly disable our own abilities to memorize, investigate, and problem-solve.

How I Felt When I Journeyed Through a Death Meditation

When his words guided us to visualize our bodies laying still, dying, my mind was on high alert, my emotions triggered, and I felt my body resisting his words and the experience. My mind had anticipated this dreaded moment and I was angry at its arrival, out of sheer fear of what I was going to feel next.

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Why Vulnerability Is the Path to True Intimacy

While vulnerability can be frightening, extraordinary love takes extraordinary vulnerability, because vulnerability deepens intimacy and intimacy unites souls at the frequency of Love.

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How to Balance Authenticity with Sensitivity

This journey can also pose many challenges and dilemmas, such as how authentic is too authentic? Should I always tell the truth about how I feel? Is the world around me ready to hear my truths?

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How to Manage Emotional Triggers and Become Less Reactive in Daily Life

Experiencing triggered emotions is simply human. We each have our own specific pain points that others may not be aware of or understand. The speed and intensity of those reactions vary from person to person.

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4 Steps to Establish Emotional Boundaries for Highly Sensitive People

The first step in establishing boundaries is to give yourself permission to feel what you feel, as well as giving others permission to do the same.

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How to Embrace Your Sensitivity and Turn It into Strength

Being a highly sensitive person can be rough in a world full of agendas, processes, rules, and numbers. Feelings and senses being intangible and invisible are often dismissed because not everyone experiences them in the same way.