Make an Election Safety Plan

“Spend time today preparing for how you can best support yourself and your community in the weeks ahead. Regardless of how we show up at the polls, we belong to each other. And we must take care of one another – especially in turbulent times. You can use the template Safety Checklist included to help prepare. This was created by a group of organizers in NYC.” Anti-Racism Daily

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Using Essential Oils to Enhance Your Home

From the soothing scent of lavender to the invigorating aroma of eucalyptus, essential oils have been used by humans for a long time. These beautiful smelling oils come in a variety of formats and fragrances. If you’re new to the idea of using essential oils in your home, there are plenty of ways you can incorporate them into your space. Whether you want to enjoy a new fragrance, or you simply enjoy meditating to calm the mind, read on to discover the many benefits of essential oils and how they can enhance your life and home.

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Celebrating the Beautiful Voices of BIPOC

I share some beautiful black voices I had the pleasure of talking with recently. Their stories are so inspiring! As part of my mission at Sensitive Empowerment, I want to be part of the change we need to see in the world. After over 400 years of system racism, we have a lot of work to do to make the changes we need to see. Lifting up the voices of black stories is part of my mission.

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Tapping Into Your Guidance System to Take Aligned Action with Michael Coles

Michael is on a mission to teach the world that we are all capable of intrinsic healing and transformation. If we start with foundational health, we can build upon this foundation to create the life we want to live. Michael overcame, healed, and transformed from having Tourette syndrome, severe asthma, ADHD, obesity, and an eating addiction. He is a US Marine, a Holistic health practitioner, and health strategy coach.

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This One is For the Deep Feelers and Highly Sensitive: on the Becoming Vibrant Podcast

Julie’s journey to understanding high sensitivity, why the trait exists, signs you might be an HSP, highly sensitive children, how to reparent yourself as a highly sensitive person, why we use food, alcohol, drugs, etc to cope, boundaries and self-care for HSPs, the right kind of downtime for an HSP, how HSPs can be effective helpers, parenting sensitive children, and learn a breath technique that calms the nervous system.

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Fussy Eaters Anonymous: How to Help Your Picky Child

At one point or another, many children go through a period of “fussy” eating. Whether it’s a short phase or it lasts for months, you want your child to be able to get the best nutrition that picky eating just doesn’t provide. Luckily, there are certain steps that can encourage them to not develop fussy eating habits, or to break the habits if they already have them. Here are the simple steps to follow to help your child expand their diet.

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Our Challenges Shape Our Purpose

I share the story of how my challenges helped shape my purpose in empowering HSPs to recognize their value. With a few tools in place and a sense of community, we can truly get through anything, even the current challenges. We are stronger together and HSPs have so much value.

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What is Joy for an HSP? with Willow and Julie

There is a need for meaning, service, and authentic relationships for us, as HSPs. How should we be pursuing this? What do we value as most important in our lives as HSPs? Are we truly recognizing and honoring our needs? Join us as we consider the importance of recognizing whether we are on the right path in the pursuit of our own individual happiness, both personally and professionally.

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Sensitive Empowerment Community Events

We have covered so many wonderful topics in our Sensitive Empowerment community and I wanted to share everything we have covered so far. We do live events every week and all of these events are recorded and added to our incredible HSP Library! If you are already a member, just click the link to view the video training. If you are not yet a member, consider joining us!

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Research on HSPs and Chronic Illness

Are you a highly sensitive person or empath with one or more chronic illnesses or autoimmune disorders? Having a more sensitive nervous system combined with physical challenges can be draining, overwhelming and disheartening. Did you know around 50% of sensitive people report having one or more chronic illnesses, compared to only 10-15% of the general population?

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HSPs and Noise Sensitivity

Being a highly sensitive person (HSP) means we have a trait called, sensory processing sensitivity and HSPs experience different levels of sensitivity. Here are some challenges HSPs have shared about noise sensitivity and also what helps.

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