Why you’re emotionally reactive and what to do about it: How to cope — Emotional reactivity is when emotions easily bubble up within you and become hard to control. Here’s my personal take on why that happens and how you, too, can cope with it. 1.) First, if you’re in public and feeling this way, remember to respond and not react. Reacting is letting yourself be driven by your emotions, which can be destructive in certain sensitive situations. It’s similar…

You care too much, here’s why it’s a bad thing, and how you can better manage your empathy. — Despite the title, I wholeheartedly believe that the world is deprived of empathy. And, as a species, we need to cultivate more of it in everyone in order to have a kinder world for the future generations we’ll leave behind. However, the individuals who already have it, and are highly-sensitive…

Is disillusionment because of childhood trauma getting in the way of you actually living? Here are little reminders to help you find the joy of life again. — “Jaded”, in official terms means:

The media has been painting “empaths” in a negative light, and I think for good reason… — Now, I know that empaths will loathe reading the title, because we strive so hard to stay away from any narcissistic trait — in fact, one of our main fears could very well be that we ourselves are narcissists, since most of us were raised by one. But I’m here to tell you, in case you didn’t know already, that being narcissistic is totally fine sometimes, even necessary and vital in order to thrive in this world.