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Dear HSPs: Besides this issue's articles, there's a great deal of news to announce. Whether or not you go on to check out the details online, merely the announcements will give you a sense of the growth of the number of us who actually know we are highly sensitive! I guess everything grows well in summer. I hope you do as well. You'll find here an article on grief and the answer to a question sent in about autism and sensitivity. On a nicely lighter note, there is a guest contribution about the "Princess and the Pea" plus a brief report on how being sensitive won one HSP a new car. So click away--after you read all the news. A World Wide Network of HSPs--We're Ready for This Jacquelyn Strickland has been busy on another project, a website to connect us all. Here's her mission statement: To connect highly sensitive people around the world to end isolation and to increase self-esteem and a sense of empowerment, by creating personal connections for support, information and friendship and providing opportunities for cost-conscious HSP travel home stays. In other words, this website will link us all up better by helping you contact HSPs in your area in order to meet individually or to form a support group. When traveling you can choose from a list of homes of HSPs who would be happy to have other HSPs stay with them for close to free, or for you to offer the same to other HSPs. There's going to be a charge of $50 U.S. for using the information because maintaining these lists is going to be expensive. However, for the first 50 who sign up, membership is free. To take advantage of this offer, email the following information to memberinfo@hspworldnetwork.com
The fee will also always be lower, $35 U.S., for those who have attended a gathering. So, here's a... [EDITOR'S UPDATE 2016: This HSP World Network program is no longer available.] New List of Gatherings October 1-5, 2009, YMCA--Estes Park, Colorado April 8-12, 2010, YMCA--Black Mountain, North Carolina June 11-15, 2010, The Haven, Gabriola Island, British Columbia September 2-6, 2010, Walker Creek Ranch, Petaluma, California For details, including links to information on these wonderful destinations, go to www.lifeworkshelp.com/hspgathering.htm Tribe, a Magazine Just for Us--We're Ready for This, Too Tina Bentley has begun Tribe, a gorgeous e-magazine for all of us, plus an online forum to build our "tribe." This magazine's scope and beauty will astound you, and it's just for us. All about us. Written by us. It is just what we ought to have at this point, with so many HSPs wanting contact with each other. One of Tribe's goals is to showcase our creativity, so contributions and comments are welcome. The forum is for everyone, but I think it will especially help HSPs who are creative and would like to support each other as they put their work out before the public. Go look: tribe.paramimedia.com/ Two New Books Erika Harris has an e-book you can download from her website, www.joyful-work-for-sensitive-people.com. You've Got Nerve: An Empowerment Tool Kit for Highly Sensitive People has fifty charming metaphors and other material to get you thinking deeply about your trait. [EDITOR'S UPDATE 2016: "You've Got Nerve" seems to be no longer available.] Leslie Forsberg and Michelle Duffy have written Wanderlust and Lipstick: Traveling with Kids, in which traveling with HSCs is discussed on p. 105-108. But the book also has an abundance of ideas for traveling with children generally, and just traveling. Leslie wrote another book, Wanderlust and Lipstick: The Essential Guide for Women Traveling Solo that might help HSPs in that situation feel fully prepared. Where I Will Be Speaking Next October 16, 2009, the Nueva Gifted Learning Conference in Hillsborough, California. For more information: www.nuevagiftedconference.org/ March 5-7, 2010, a weekend at Kripalu in western Massachusetts. For more information, when closer to that date go to www.kripalu.org/ May 21-23, 2010, a weekend at Esalen in northern California. Again, it's coming but not listed yet at www.esalen.org/ That's the news. Highly sensitive people are on the march! Very quietly. Take care of yourself, Elaine
August 2009 Articles: A Letter from Elaine Coping Corner: Grief, Sensitivity, and Beyond Your Questions Answered: How Does Sensitivity Differ from Autism, Asperger's Syndrome, and the "Autistic Spectrum" Story: The Princess and the Pea: A Story for Us News: HSP Wins Car for Being Highly Sensitive
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August 2009 Articles: A Letter from Elaine Coping Corner: Grief, Sensitivity, and Beyond Your Questions Answered: How Does Sensitivity Differ from Autism, Asperger's Syndrome, and the "Autistic Spectrum" Story: The Princess and the Pea: A Story for Us News: HSP Wins Car for Being Highly Sensitive
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