Welcome to The Highly Sensitive Person's Guide to Creating Joyful Work!
Double-click MP3-player above for an audio-greeting from Erika.
On a scale of 1 to 10 -- 1 being "not at all",
and 10 being "very" -- how true does this sign feel to you?
Do you experience the weekly symptom of Monday Mourning, which starts right after the Sunday Evening Blues?
"When we feel we are investing attention in a task against our will, it is as if our psychic energy is being wasted. Instead of helping us reach our own goals, it is called upon to make someone else's come true. Time channeled into such a task is perceived as time subtracted from the total available for our life. Many people consider their jobs as something they have to do, a burden imposed from the outside, an effort that takes life away from the ledger of their existence."
(Hungarian psychology professor, Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, "Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention," Harper Collins, 1996.)
For highly sensitive people, this waste of our psychic energy is excrutiating!
The pain of it cuts so deeply because, for us, it is a type of soul-suffering.
Well, we can end the suffering and step into joy, by identifying the gifts
of our sensivity, and using them. Would you like help with that?
To start, watch the six-minute video below.
Now, ask yourself: "How is my Inner Fire?"
Has it dimmed or weakened? Do you want to get it blazing?
If so, you are at the right site.
I am going to inform, inspire and ignite you. I am going to remind you
of your many Powers, including Awareness, Creativity, Wisdom, Compassion and Benevolence. I am going to challenge you to accept the responsibility that comes with your Powers. For starters, you are responsible for taking excellent care of yourself.
And excellent self-care for sensitive people includes work that is meaningful and joyful.
Others may say they want it.
But we really do need it.
And when we deny ourselves that need...
when we try to compromise, negotiate with, deny,
resist or ignore the fact that, yes,
we do require special handling...
well, all those little concessions add up until,
one day, we find ourselves totally isolated and depressed.
Living in quiet desperation.
I hope you find that unacceptable.
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WHAT I SEE:
There are nearly 7 billion people on Earth. Of those, 20% are born with highly refined nervous systems. 61 million Americans -- 1.3 billion people worldwide -- process things more deeply.
I believe our nervous systems have been wired for us to bring forth a different kind of leading, and a different kind of living... a radical departure from the rude, crude, violent, colonizing, crushing ways that have been so pervasive... and globally destructive.
I believe highly sensitive people are neurologically wired to step forward and bring forth many missing virtues from our culture... things like tenderness, compassion, empathy, benevolence, collaboration, inspiration, joy... virtues that have been confused with weakness, but are now vitally needed in every realm of our lives.
I have a clear vision of the innate trait of sensitivity fueling the most gorgeous
outpouring of social transformation and personal bliss for the person who says,
"Yes!" to this role, reward and responsibility.
I see the connection between sensitivity and social transformation,
and seeing that connection moves me to action. I work to help sensitive people
feel and live from that connection, too.
• Deepening Your Energy Management & Mastery
(Quick Tips: Energy is what we live and move in. Emotions are felt energy. Emissions are "exhaust fumes" of others. Enthusiasm is vibrancy that uplifts and expands.)
• Advanced Empathic Techniques
(Quick Tips: "Enlightened Empathy" is empathy that feels good and does good for the empath. EE uses your empathic abilities to harness qualities, traits, virtues and properties that serve you. It's a quantum-flip of the empath's cry, "I pick up the energy of others." EE says, GREAT! As long as you're picking up energies, why don't you pick up the energy of Diamond, and seize from it Durability... or pick up the energy of Cayenne, and seize from it Excitement and Audacity... the energy of Tiger, which will yield to you Power and Passion. This 'empathic seizing' can draw from any vitalizing source, and can be applied to any life area. What might it look like to channel a sunrise into your relationship? Or a waterfall into your finances? This is energetic play that capitalizes on a grossly undervalued sensing ability.)
• I show sensitive people how to master and even monetize their sensitivity.
I teach them advanced techniques I've developed that show them
how to make empathy not only pain-free, but profitable.
• I show companies and organizations how skillful sensitivity is essential
to business development, employee satisfaction and retention
of clients, members, donors and volunteers.
• I create PSAs (Public Sensitivity Announcements)
for workshops, seminars and keynotes.
I am available for 60-minute consultative
sessions via phone, Skype or iChat for USD$125.00
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WHAT OTHERS HAVE SAID:
"The first wave of inspiration began when I read the wealth of information that Erika so generously shares on her website. She responded to my email inquiry with warmth, wisdom, and efficiency; and the fact that I had connected with an extraordinary person became further validated when we spoke on the phone. The sound of Erika's voice alone is healing; however, it was the way in which she magically rounded up my many stray, nebulous concepts, ideas, and beliefs and immediately transformed them into do-able and delicious possibilities -- possibilities that were previously nothing more than long-lost hopes and dreams -- that transformed my life for the better. Thank you, Erika, for helping so many of us in this very special way!"
Jane Brown Smith, Washington, DC - Alternative Medicine Practitioner
"Erika is an electrifying and engaging woman
who believes in helping others achieve their highest potential!"
At The Water Cooler HSP Village - Discussions about HSPs in traditional workplaces.
At Your Self-Owned Company/Business HSP Village - Discussions for HSPs who have found happiness in self-employment (or are curious about entrepreneurship).
