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Self-Care Boundaries to Prevent Burnout for Highly Sensitive Women

If you’re a Highly Sensitive Professional Woman, you care deeply. You show up fully. You give your best - always. But when giving outpaces receiving, emotional burnout sets in.

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How Setting Boundaries Protects Self-Care and Mental Well-Being for Highly Sensitive Women

Highly Sensitive Women often feel responsible for keeping everyone else comfortable. But your peace matters too.
Discover why boundaries are an essential self-care and mental wellness practice - not selfishness.

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The Covert Narcissist & the Sensitive High-Achiever: A Painful Pairing

The covert narcissist doesn’t rage—they guilt, withhold, and twist your empathy against you.
For Highly Sensitive High-Achievers, that dynamic is both intoxicating and devastating.
This post explores how to recognize the pattern—and how to walk away with self-trust intact.

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Why Highly Sensitive Women Do All the Emotional Work in Relationships (And How to Stop)

Why Highly Sensitive Women Do All the Emotional Work in Relationships | Inner Life Psychotherapy.

Discover why Highly Sensitive Women often over-function in relationships—and how to stop doing all the emotional work while cultivating balance and self-worth.

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Christina Sheehan, MS. LPC. LMHC

As a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) myself (she/her pronouns), I know the struggle it can be to accept yourself and your unique abilities and needs. My dream is a world where all HSPs can feel their value and have the freedom to share their gifts in the world. Now, maybe more then ever, highly sensitive people and empaths are very needed to help care for this world. Through my private practice in Portland, Oregon I currently contribute by working with highly sensitive individuals on the issues that affect HSPs more deeply then others. This includes, covert narcissistic relationships, midlife transitions/crisis!, and learning about & accepting yourself.