As with anything in life, the HSP may encounter challenges along the way that include overwhelm in busy or noisy environments, sensory overload (lights, sounds, textures, crowds), emotional exhaustion from feeling so much, difficulty with boundaries and saying no and feeling misunderstood or dismissed as “too sensitive”. So how do you care for yourself, or guide an HSP to take care of their sensitive heart and selves?
Choosing presence means I’m there for the small moments, the hard questions, the emotional weather patterns that pass through little bodies trying to make sense of a big world with all it's expectations and that doesn’t always pay in cash but it pays in closeness. Closeness, I said. A currency I refuse to devalue.
In closing, I feel it relevant to mention that forgiveness is more than just making peace with an event, a person, a group of people and so on. True, deep and meaningful forgiveness means that you make peace with yourself for the discontent that could cost you your sanity in each moment of your precious, human life.
She stressed the importance of reciting these affirmations, daily, looking into the reflection of our eyes. She even went so far as to say that we need 50 affirmations each. 50!!! To top it off, I needed to say them daily. There was no way I was able to come up with 50 affirmations about myself and I sure as shit was not going to look at myself in the mirror every single day saying these things about myself.
So, just rehearting you that their behaviour is not who they are, you are not delusional, you most likely have fallen in love with who they are at the core. After all, we see in others a reflection of ourselves. You would not support a friend in losing themselves as a result of behaviour that is not in alignment with their highest, love yourself the same way.