The Highly Sensitive Person

learning to see your childhood in the light of your trait and reparenting yourself when necessary.

. Think about your response to the event and how you have always viewed it. Did you feel you responded “wrong” or not like others would have? Or for too long? Did you decide you were no good in some way? Did you try to hide your upset from others? Or did others find out and tell you that you were being “too much”?
2. Consider your response in the light of what you know now about how your body automatically operates. Or imagine me, an author, explaining it to you.

Think if there’s anything that needs to be done about it now. If it seems right, share your new view of the situation with someone else. Perhaps it could even be someone who was present at the time who could help you continue to fit details into the picture. Or write down your old and new view of the experience and keep it around for a while as a reminder.

make self-protection a higher priority.

Sensitive girls find it all too easy to take the path of traditional values without first learning how to be in the world.

, all young women are known to experience a descent into low self-esteem at puberty,

aspiration level, and an inner-directedness.”

deal with their sensitivity through adding another person

quiet independence, an interest in things intellectual, a high aspira‍

caution and delaying