When you notice your needs late
Use check-ins, self-awareness, and self-compassion to recognize what you need throughout the day.
The Sensitive Person’s Toolbox
Know what to reach for when you feel overwhelmed.
Learn practical ways to support your energy, set boundaries, and make space for rest in everyday life.
A self-paced online course for highly sensitive and neurodivergent people
$99One-time payment
Get The Toolbox for $99
Written materials and videos
Captions and transcripts included
Created by Julie Bjelland, LMFT, a psychotherapist specializing in high sensitivity and neurodivergence.
“When I am overwhelmed it can feel too hard to make a decision about what tools to use for myself. What I love about Julie’s HSP Toolbox Course is that it takes the guesswork right out of it.”
You want support you can use in daily life
You may already know that quiet, rest, and boundaries matter to you. Finding ways to make room for them can feel harder when your energy is low or other people need your attention.
You might recognize these moments:
- Noise, demands, or time with other people leave you feeling overloaded.
- You say yes to another request while already needing a break.
- Your energy runs out sooner than you expected, and recovery gets pushed aside.
- You have learned helpful strategies but feel unsure which one to try.
The Toolbox brings practices for these everyday needs into one course. Explore what helps you, keep the tools that fit, and build your own collection of support.
Explore tools for the moments you recognize
The course covers both settling practices and daily habits for energy, boundaries, and rest. These are the areas you’ll explore.
When you want to feel more grounded
Explore breathing, mindfulness, meditation, gratitude, and stillness. Notice which practices feel supportive to you.
When sensory input builds
Explore sensory load and ways to make room for quiet, reduced stimulation, and recovery.
When your energy runs low
Explore tracking your energy and planning recovery around draining experiences, with attention to your available capacity.
When boundaries bring up guilt
Practice turning toward your needs while exploring guilt, shame, and the pull to put everyone else first.
When you need more restoration
Explore slow mornings, sleep support, unstructured alone time, rest, and gentler daily rhythms.
What participants have found useful
“I love how easy it is to access the course and you get to go at your own pace.”
“I found the lessons on depletion and boundaries particularly helpful in developing habits that nurture and support my sensitive nature.”
“This course is engaging and concise with practical tools, such as the bathroom check in, slow mornings, and energy points.”
These are individual experiences. Your experience and the tools you find helpful will be personal to you.
Your personal toolbox, at your own pace
Explore the material, try the practices that fit your needs, and revisit the lessons you find useful. Your collection of tools can be personal, flexible, and simple.
- Self-paced online learning.
- Written materials and video lessons.
- Captions and transcripts.
- Practices for calming, sensory overload, energy, boundaries, rest, and self-compassion.
- An optional eight-week Community trial for eligible new members.
$99One-time payment
Get The Toolbox for $99
Your course purchase is a one-time payment. Course access is separate from Community membership.
The optional Community trial renews as a paid membership unless canceled before it ends. Read the trial details.
Hi, I’m Julie
I’m Julie Bjelland, LMFT, a psychotherapist, author, and founder of Sensitive Empowerment. I specialize in high sensitivity and neurodivergence, including adult-discovered autism.
I created The Toolbox to make practical support easier to access in everyday life, especially during times of overwhelm, depletion, sensory load, or reduced capacity.
My work is neurodiversity-affirming and LGBTQIA+ affirming.
Optional connection with people who understand
Eight weeks free in the Sensitive & Neurodivergent Community for eligible new members
You can use The Toolbox on your own. You also have the option to explore supportive resources, join written conversations, or attend a Community gathering. Quiet participation is welcome.
How the optional trial works
The trial is for new members who have not previously used a Community trial. Community signup is separate and requires a payment card.
The membership price and billing terms are shown before you sign up. After the free trial, membership renews automatically as a paid subscription unless you cancel before the trial ends.
Your course access continues independently of Community membership, including after a trial or paid membership ends.
Common questions
Select a question to read the answer.
Is The Toolbox self-paced?
Yes. Explore the material at a pace that works for you, try the practices that fit your needs, and revisit lessons when they are useful.
What kinds of tools are included?
The course covers self-awareness, self-compassion, sensory overload, calming, grounding, energy, boundaries, rest, depletion, mindfulness, breathing, sleep, and recovery.
Does the course include written material and videos?
Yes. The course includes written material and video lessons, with captions and transcripts.
Does my course access depend on Community membership?
Your course access continues independently of the optional Community membership. The eight-week trial refers to the Community, rather than the length of The Toolbox course.
Will I be charged monthly for The Toolbox?
The Toolbox costs $99 as a one-time course purchase. The optional Community trial requires a separate signup and automatically becomes a paid membership unless canceled before the trial ends. The Community’s price and billing terms are shown at signup.
Is The Toolbox therapy?
The Toolbox is an educational course rather than individualized therapy or crisis support. You can use the learning alongside professional care that meets your individual needs.
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Build a toolbox that fits your everyday life
Explore ways to notice your needs, care for your energy, and make room for rest. Keep the practices that help you and return to them as part of your daily support.
The Toolbox
A self-paced online course for highly sensitive and neurodivergent people
$99One-time payment
Get The Toolbox for $99
Written materials, videos, captions, and transcripts.