Amanda Cassil

“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