Winona Ryder and depression
Winona Ryder starred in the film based on Susanna Kaysen’s novel Girl, Interrupted, and thinks Kaysen “captures a mood we’ve all experienced. It’s like a reflective time we’ve all had in our lives, whether to kill ourselves, whether to be miserable or move on. You go through spells where you feel that [...]
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Excerpts from new book “Emotional Freedom” by Judith Orloff, MD
In my book, I emphasize the importance of learning how to stay centered in a stressful, highly emotionally charged world.
Since emotions such as fear, anger, and frustration are energies, you can potentially “catch” them from people [...]
“It is also good every so often to go away and relax a little for when you come back to your work your judgment will be better, since to remain constantly at work causes you to deceive yourself.”
Leonardo da Vinci
In her article What’s the rush?, Jenna Avery describes how constantly striving and being urgent about [...]
In her article Let Go of Taking Responsibility for Others, Jenna Avery, CLC, [Life Coach for Sensitive Souls], notes “Sensitives are often unknowingly affected by the energy, emotions, and desires of others.
“This can be both confusing and overstimulating because we are unable to distinguish whether we’re operating from our own center or someone else’s. I [...]
The image is from the poster for the movie Dracula (1992). The book Meeting the Shadow declares, “Bram Stoker’s ‘Count Dracula’ [is] but a recent instance of this genre. Tales of vampires and werewolves have probably always been with us.”
Aside from the dramatic mythology, psychiatrist and energy specialist Judith Orloff M.D. says “Energy vampires are [...]
On growing up
On the excellent Highly Sensitive People dvd by Jim Hallowes, psychologist Pat Allen, PhD, MFT recalls her mother using the phrase “Still waters run deep” to refer to her – something many of us could relate to. I think my own mother used the phrase, as a subtle form of affirmation of my [...]
Expressiveness = High EQ or Sensitivity
We cry in response to many different kinds of experiences, not just painful ones.
Keith Beasley described Emotional Quotient, or ‘Sensitivity’ in Mensa Magazine (United Kingdom Edition) in 1987: “The person with a high EQ is one who is easily ‘moved’ and who needs to openly express his or her [...]
Jennifer Beals
“I get emotional all the time,” Jennifer Beals [left] once said. “I get emotional every time I make a speech, or talk about other cast members,” she says. “Every now and again, my heart just explodes and expands.”
Laurel Holloman
Laurel Holloman, her castmate on the Showtime series “The L Word,” has seen this firsthand: “If [...]
The image is from the book The Sensitive Self by Michael Eigen – who says in his article Sensitivity, “Without sensitivity what would life be like? Sensitivity nurtures us, gives life color, expressiveness, charm… Sensitivity, feeling and thinking feed each other, are part of each other. Thinking and feeling are ways sensitivity unfolds or grows.”
In [...]