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Hey, Secret Soothers! You know I like to write about sort of HSP biohacker-y health stuff I’m exploring over here, because I think it’s deeply important that we consider our physical health as part of our emotional and mental health.
I find HSPs are often willing to do deep emotional work, mindset work, trauma healing, all in the hopes of feeling better, alleviating mood disorders, depression, or anxiety, and all of that is super important and useful.
But these past few months I’ve been pulling on the return to simple physical practices that can have a profound effect on the overall health — mental, physical, emotional, spiritual — of highly sensitive people (and probably most humans, too).
We forget this, sometimes. I had a client last year who was struggling with extreme energy issues, and finally had her bloodwork done — she was anemic and her vitamin B levels were in the basement.
I had a client who struggled with what she thought was possibly Chronic Fatigue Syndrome — and she stopped eating a carb heavy, sugary breakfast, and her energy went up and those fatigue symptoms disappeared within a week.
I had a client who is going through menopause and really struggling with low mood, but when we went over her schedule we realized she lives in a basement apartment, was on screens 12 hours a day and was never seeing the sun.
I experienced this myself, when I was having a really low January and February, then spent 3 days in Florida and realized my mood had taken a 180 swing, and all I had done was be on the beach, in the water, and under the sun.
At the same time, I think because of our perfectionist natures and big old smart brains, HSPs can tend to want to go for the convoluted healing and health approaches and neglect the basics.
And, of course, all over the internet we’re sold complex and sometimes expensive potential solutions, from supplement regimes to restrictive diets to costly devices. It’s easier to fall for the sparkly dopamine hit of a new approach or program that promises you the moon, than to change some basic routines in your life and do it consistently. I very much get this.
Anyways, so when I was thinking, if I could reduce everything I’ve learned about HSP health down to the free or almost-free, and simplest, easiest, least time-intensive possible things that were accessible and almost doable for almost everybody, that we could do for health, that also had the most impact, what would I include?
And I came up with the below.
All of these things are free or under a couple of bucks (except for one purchase that’s about $20-$30). They should mostly be doable for anybody no matter where you live, city, rural, etc. They’re relatively easy to implement, under 5-10 minutes each.
They’re also less things you have to do separately from your day-to-day life, and more things you can incorporate into the fabric of your life.
They also largely draw from our biggest teacher and healer: nature and the natural world.
I also share exactly how I incorporate these into my routines.
Ready to try them out? Let’s go.
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