If You’re an HSP Struggling With Overwhelm — THIS Is the Missing Piece No One Told You About

Are you a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) who keeps slipping into overwhelm, overthinking, or repeating the same unhelpful emotional patterns again and again — even though you’re trying to grow? This powerful Intuitive Planning Day activation will change everything. In this transformational session, mentor and founder Heather Dominick guides you into 0.1 hertz heart coherence, opening a state where your intuition becomes clear, your nervous system becomes rewired, and your “old identity” begins to fall away.

Empowered Community Supports HSPs to Grow Business Confidently #hsp

Weekly training roundtables are powerful support element in the Highly Sensitive Leadership Training program. These live weekly trainings help HSPs take better actions in their business and personal growth. They support both inner and outer actions and remind HSPs how to take action in their own way. Many HSPs struggle with feeling alone or trying to learn everything by themselves. These roundtables help stop that habit by creating a strong, caring community of empowered HSPs in business and leadership. HSPs can share their challenges and learn from others just like them. This weekly connection builds confidence and makes it easier to take action. You are not alone, and this space proves it every week.

Mastering Intuition and Asking: The HSP Path to True Success #hsp

Many Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) feel safe in quiet places like libraries. But life, business, and leadership are always changing. That’s why HSPs need a new skill: intuitive discernment. Instead of following a step-by-step method, HSPs can succeed by learning to trust their gut and ask for help when needed. This is more powerful than just learning from training alone. When you practice listening to your feelings and asking the right questions, you grow faster and feel less stuck. Watch this video to understand how to use your inner wisdom to move through fear, confusion, and pressure, and create success in every part of life.

From asking me who I think I am to telling me who they think I am, people have compared me to a lot.

From relatives to straight to gay to exes to wives to that one homeless guy to Frederick Douglas to beautiful to ugly to nice to mean to blah blah blah. People have felt inclined to tell me who they think I am…who I remind them of…who I am not.

Comparison has inspired me to break free from convention since childhood. Classism, racism, homophobia, ableism, ageism…comparison divides and degrades us where appreciation connects and affirms us.

Being compared to people has felt excessive, and low-key racist, so a lot of the work I do is rooted in self acceptance and creator collaboration over self denial and creator competition because wtf lol.

We are one picture that deserves a closer look. Being a cellular organism is weird because like cells our existence is a bunch of tiny parts creating one enormous picture. Like any picture, we all deserve another look.

May you meet an art buff willing to truly collaborate, judge you less and value you more. Rather than comparing you to other pieces or creators may they hold you as a remarkable individual, grown from blank space, complete yet worth getting to know. May they see and love you for you…art!

fell asleep from defense training oops (all I lost was my helmet and green cape)

honestly I should do more mining now that my hands have recovered anyways so. effort to 60 smithing

oh hey just something to think on, but i got “diagnosed” as a “higly sensitive person” by a therapist. turns out all of my symptoms of hsp are just autism. and that’s why im 31 and still not officially diagnosed.

”I used to dislike being sensitive. I thought it made me weak. But take away that single trait, and you take away the very essence of who I am. You take away my conscience, my ability to empathize, my intuition, my creativity, my deep appreciation of the little things, my vivid inner life, my keen awareness of others pain and my passion for it all.”

Caitlin Japa

A great resource

Why HSPs Should Not Repress Their Emotions

30 Calming Activities for Highly Sensitive Women

What Does It Mean to Be a Highly Sensitive Woman?

If you’ve ever felt completely drained after a loud party, deeply moved by a piece of music, or overwhelmed by fluorescent lights and too many people talking at once, you might be a highly sensitive person (HSP). Coined by psychologist Dr. Elaine Aron in the 1990s, the term refers to a trait called Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS), which…

30 Calming Activities for Highly Sensitive Women

HSP

Life hits me harder

Sounds are louder

The lights are too bright

Crowds are weighty

Abrasive comments don’t bounce off

Everything around me is stuck on high

Amplified perception

Emotions don’t visit politely; they flood

Empathy that forces me to experience the mood of anyone near me

People see me as delicate

Emotional in that annoying way where everyone has to tiptoe around me

That’s not it, though

Yes, I appreciate gentleness

But it is because I am taking in more information than most people even notice exists

I can’t turn it off

It can get really annoying at times

But it is the reason I can sense problems before they become disasters

Maybe it makes me suffer more

But it makes the highs higher too

And I will save the world, one moment at a time

By refusing to normalize cruelty

By feeling the future in the present

By simultaneously carrying early grief and early wisdom

Gently pressuring humanity around me to not become hard and cold

15-20% of the world’s population are considered highly sensitive people, and are wired with sensory processing sensitivity. A whole nervous system orientation with these 4 traits:

•depth of processing - does not skim the

surface, processes *everything thoroughly

•overstimulation - a finely tuned nervous

system, and too much input becomes

overwhelming

•empathy - does not just understand others,

but very literally feels them and their

emotions

•awareness of subtleties - picks up tiny

signals, micro changes, small shifts in

energy, and details that other people miss

Use this calming nature soundscape to sleep, meditate or to take a load off after a challenging day.

Brown noise has many health benefits and so does listening to nature sounds. It soothes your nervous system, lowers your heartrate, clears your thoughts and helps you do whatever you set out to do. You can use this as sleep music, meditation music, background sounds when you work or study or as a stress reliever throughout the day.

Being an empath in a high-stress office feels like trying to run a marathon in a storm. But neuroscience suggests that 20% of the population has Sensory Processing Sensitivity—a trait that gives us more active mirror neurons.

This isn’t a weakness; it’s the foundation for being elite in consulting, design, and healing professions. Think of it as being an Orchid. You just need the right soil to bloom.

Try taking micro-breaks every two hours to reset your nervous system and protect your peace.

References: Aron (1996), Acevedo et al. (2014).

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181 Harness the Power of Privilege of Agency

In this podcast episode, I go deep into what privilege of agency is, and what it isn’t. I share my own journey of how I developed this concept and how I’ve used it to make massively impactful changes in how I operate. I discuss how it specifically relates to you as a highly sensitive in business and leadership and why this particular teaching is more important now than ever. So you will be able to step out of comparison traps and step up into your purpose and be the change you want to see in the world while also creating the personal success and freedom you desire. “When we are in our shadows and coping mechanisms we have given up our privilege of agency in service to someone else’s needs.” - Heather Dominick. Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/181

STOP Getting Stuck in Comparison, Use Privilege of Agency to Create HSP Business Success

When we are operating as an untrained highly sensitive, we get stuck in the trap of comparing our lives and businesses to others who are not highly sensitive (and even others who are highly sensitive) in an attempt to see if we “measure up”. This only leads to spiralling into your coping mechanisms of pushing, hiding or ping ponging back and forth between pushing and hiding; and getting stuck in shadows such as people pleasing, perfectionism, and over-responsibility. Through privilege of agency, we can instead implement a healthier approach to making decisions and setting boundaries, using discernment based on our highly sensitive strengths. Privilege of agency can help you break free from comparison traps and step into a business and life built from your essential self.

The “Emotional Sting” is real. When you hear a critique and your heart starts racing, you’re experiencing a biological threat response. Your system is flooded, which is why logic suddenly feels a million miles away.

Think of your emotions like a wave. If you try to fight the peak, you’ll get pulled under. But if you wait, the wave always recedes.

Enter the 5-Minute Rule:

1. Receive feedback.
2. Set a timer.
3. Don’t defend or decide.
4. Just breathe until the timer goes off.

This gives your brain the time it needs to bring the “logical” centers back online.

References:
Goleman, D. (1995). Emotional Intelligence.
Linehan, M. M. (2014). DBT Skills (The STOP skill).

Understanding Common Attachment Styles Of Highly Sensitive People

Attachment styles are a crucial aspect of human relationships, formed in early childhood based on the interactions with primary caregivers, usually parents.  For highly sensitive people, also known as HSPs, who have an innate ability to perceive & absorb the emotions of others, these attachment styles can have profound implications on their relationships & emotional well being.

When parents are…

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180 Heal Business Leadership Turmoil

As a highly sensitive in business and leadership, living on purpose is the ultimate form of self-care. This requires you to face your overwhelm and learn that, as A Course in Miracles states, “peace is part of you and requires only that you be there to embrace any situation in which you are."Your life purpose is not what you do, or something you find, but is instead something you choose in every decision, action and interaction. It’s not a legacy we leave, but a legacy we live. Our life purpose takes courage to feel what we naturally don’t want to feel. “Every relationship becomes a lesson of love.” - Heather Dominick. Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/180

Ever feel like a tiny critique stays with you for days? It’s not just taking it personally—it’s biology.

Science shows that highly sensitive nervous systems process information more deeply. Your amygdala is simply highly tuned to social cues, which is why feedback can feel like a physical sting.

Think of it this way: You are an orchid. You are more reactive to your environment than others, but that is exactly where your incredible intuition comes from. Sensitivity isn’t a weakness; it’s a different way of experiencing the world.

Practical Tip: Try the five-minute rule. Before you let the inner critic win, give yourself five minutes to just breathe and observe the feeling without judging it.

References:

• Aron, E. N. (1996). The Highly Sensitive Person.
• Acevedo, B. P., et al. (2014). The highly sensitive brain study.

Being called “too sensitive” can feel like a heavy burden, but it’s actually a sign of a highly tuned nervous system.

Neuroscience reveals that Deep Feelers have increased activity in the mirror neuron system and the insula. This means you aren’t overreacting; you’re processing the world’s frequencies in HD. Evolutionarily, we needed people like you to sense subtle shifts and keep the collective safe.

Try “emotional labeling” to help manage the intensity: Ask yourself if the emotion you’re feeling is truly yours or if you’re just reflecting someone else’s energy.

References:

• Acevedo, B. P., et al. (2014). “The highly sensitive brain.”
• Aron, E. N. (1996). “The Highly Sensitive Person.”

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