Highly sensitive people move through the world like emotional tuning forks—picking up on subtleties most others miss, feeling deeply, and reacting to things others barely register. But to the outside ...

Being sensitive often means feeling everything, and that can be exhausting. If you're always tired, these five simple things ...

Growing up, I was a very sensitive child. One of my earliest memories is of freaking out after seeing a particularly bad story on the news. I don’t remember what the story was about, but I do remember ...

Without meaning to, parents can have a way of making children feel as if something is wrong with them. As parenting researchers, we've seen this happen often with highly sensitive kids. Many parents ...

I’m the kind of person who absorbs the emotions of other people. If someone I know is stressed out or depressed, I feel it, too, resonating with their pain. Sad movies—heck, even sappy commercials—can ...