Living with Emotional Intensity

From healing to thriving, the misfit’s way.

Do You Have "Quiet BPD"?

If you have Quiet BPD, rather than act out, you act in. You do not show your inner turmoil, but direct the anger, hate, and blame toward yourself.

Relationships for the Emotionally Intense and Sensitive

 Intense people are fierce and passionate lovers. However, they face specific challenges due to their heightened sensitivity, speed of operation, and high level of intuition.

5 Ways to Survive an Argument When Your Loved One Has BPD

The more you blame yourself for not being able to rescue the situation or help them, the less healthy the relationship will be.

4 Ways to Release Anger Towards Your Parents

Some child-parent relationships are marred by anger and hurt. Here’s how you may be able to release the anger towards your parents and move on in life.

Do You Have a “Normal Part” and a “Traumatized Part”?

Complex trauma, borderline personality disorder and structural dissociation.

Existential Crisis: Coming Home to Ourselves

At the end of your existential darkness, you will come to a new level of intimacy with life, with yourself, and with people in your life. You become a fuller human.

Unresolved Anger Towards Our Parents

How do we come to terms with our wounds? How could we, despite being deeply injured, move past and beyond our history?

Been Told You Are "Too Much" All Your Life?

People say you are "too much." You think there is something wrong with you. Never did you consider that your intensity is pointing towards enormous creative potential.

Get to The Roots of Your Anxiety and Perfectionism

Relieving ourselves of the impossible duty to rescue, help or emotionally caretake anyone is the biggest gift to ourselves.

The Beautiful Truths About Being a Highly Sensitive Human

You are most likely a deep thinker, an intuitive feeler, and an extraordinary observer. You are prone to existential depression and anxiety, but you also know beauty and rapture.

Are You Having an Existential Depression?

The most profound pain comes not from being outside of the herd, but from disowning your true self.

Finding Inner Peace During Your Family Reunion

Even after years of breaking free from home, minutes into a reunion can have us regressing back into feeling and behaving like a vulnerable child or a raging teenager again.

Our Fear of Love

It may seem paradoxical at first glance, but the answer to healing from defensive non-attachment is actually to affirm our autonomy and resilience.

Depersonalisation: Why Do I Feel Empty and Numb?

Do you feel like the world around you is unreal? Do you feel as though you are watching your life go by without being in it? Do you feel detached from your feelings and body?

Our Quest for Love—What Do We Really Want From Our Partner?

Sometimes, we can't help but act out of unrealistic demands and projections. When our partner disappoints us, the situation provides valuable information.

Are Your Loved Ones "Out of Sight, Out of Mind"?

Although the push-pull behaviors in our current relationships seem to be triggered by our partner, they are actually a result of old fears we carry from our childhood.

Invisible Wounds of the Sensitive, Intense Child: Part 2

Children who are emotionally gifted are more likely to fall into specific roles in their families, and their woundings remain unspoken and unnoticed.

Invisible Wounds of the Sensitive, Emotionally Intense Child

Children who are emotionally gifted are more likely to fall into specific roles in their families, and their woundings remain unspoken and unnoticed.

Being a Non-Conformist and the Guilt of Breaking Away

For some people, breaking away from their hometown and family of origin is not just a yearning, but a calling.

The Non-Conforming Asian Women

The rigid social standards are especially abrasive and coercive for the innately intense, sensitive and gifted women.

A New Outlook on Treating Addictions and Compulsions

If we were to peel back, one layer after another, to the root of what now seems to be an unruly beast, we often find a tiny, fragile seed of deprived need.