You’re such a good listener” & “You should be a therapist” are words I’ve heard many times before. As are “Don’t take things so personally” and “You’re too emotional.“ These are phrases often said to a highly sensitive person. Being highly sensitive is still misunderstood. When people call someone sensitive, it is often said with …
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Sweetly we stay, in places we left long ago. A drifting wave, thoughts travelling the unknown. A sleepy sea, longing for certainty. A silence in the space, And a separation from us. But who is us, or I, or the boundary in the lines? For I notice, I am not separate to the sky. ✼ …
Growing up in Cambridgeshire, in a house surrounded by fields, I had never given much thought to wanting or needing silence. It was already there. Walking to school it was there, climbing a tree in the park it was there, and falling asleep, it was there. But when I grew up and moved to other …
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