Amanda Cassil > Quotes

“HSPs can be like sponges, absorbing the positive or negative moods coming from other people.”
― Amanda Cassil, The Empowered Highly Sensitive Person: A Workbook to Harness Your Strengths in Every Part of Life

“You likely are acutely aware of the endless dichotomies of life—that you cannot have joy without sorrow, or that your strength and resilience as an HSP come with incredible vulnerability. Combined with the physical exhaustion from your heightened central nervous system activity, you may feel tired and overwhelmed frequently. These conflicting needs mean you must navigate many types of grief in everyday life: from classic grief around mortality to the ever-present grief that you cannot do all the things, be all the things, or have all the things. There is the grief that injustice is everywhere, whether it’s to your advantage or disadvantage. There is the grief that comes with shifting relationships, new stages of life, unmet expectations, and changes in your abilities or looks.”
― Amanda Cassil, The Self-Care Plan for the Highly Sensitive Person

“Social situations can be overwhelming to HSPs, as they continually process a lot of data: the emotions of others, microexpressions, implicit messages, and contextual cues in their environment. HSPs often use coping mechanisms in overstimulating social situations, like hanging back to observe, leaving early, and decompressing afterward.”
― Amanda Cassil, The Empowered Highly Sensitive Person: A Workbook to Harness Your Strengths in Every Part of Life

“Shame ceases to be functional when it is associated with your value as a person”
― Amanda Cassil, The Empowered Highly Sensitive Person: A Workbook to Harness Your Strengths in Every Part of Life

“JANUARY”
― Amanda Cassil, The Self-Care Plan for the Highly Sensitive Person: 365 Days of Reflection, Calm, and Positivity

“Abiding by your limitations can actually increase your effectiveness”
― Amanda Cassil, The Empowered Highly Sensitive Person: A Workbook to Harness Your Strengths in Every Part of Life

“The world rushes to and fro Running, sprinting, competing To where? For what? Until when? There is no time for those questions And I sit, silently observing, assessing What needs to be done? Where do I want to end up? How long can I continue? Being deliberate and measured I move less and accomplish more”
― Amanda Cassil, The Self-Care Plan for the Highly Sensitive Person: 365 Days of Reflection, Calm, and Positivity