A Highly Sensitive Person's Life
When you feel joy, discomfort, emotions, and empathy intensely
Just before my book was published on Amazon last year, my husband very carefully said to me, “You know that you’re going to get some bad reviews, right? I mean, no matter what, every book gets some bad reviews. I just want you to be ready for that.”
I couldn’t help but laugh because I could see he was trying to be gentle about it. That was sweet. “Of course I know I’ll get bad reviews! It’s fine.” I assured him.
I wonder if you can see where this is going. [Read more…]
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This episode 38 is about handling criticism. I talk about three little tactics I use to help deal with negative feedback in my life.
(Last week I talked about self-criticism, how HSPs often criticize themselves in order to avoid the trauma of criticism from others.)
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Podcast music attribution: Bust This Bust That (Professor Kliq) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
Being overly sensitive to criticism is a huge topic, and one that comes up all the time, especially when people first learn about high sensitivity.
I always put off writing about it because it was so vast. But now I have a story.
Today my husband and I were bantering about something, just joking around. But then he went too far and said something hurtful. I don’t even know if he realizes how deeply it hurt me.
Do you say things like this a lot?
Holy cow, I feel like my whole life has been spent saying things like that. I am constantly worrying about annoying or inconveniencing other people. [Read more…]
Simply learning about what it means to be an HSP can change the way you see yourself and your place within the world.
