TrueINFJ

i have something to say.

[TrueINFJ @trueINFJ]

the older I get, the more convinced I am that love and acceptance are one and the same.

[TrueINFJ @trueINFJ]

People who know nothing about how to actually heal and recover from trauma have no business telling me to “just move on”.

[TrueINFJ @trueINFJ]

I’m not sure when I gave you the impression that if I ever saw an actual genocide happening before my very eyes I would be polite and quiet about it, but in any case, my apologies for the misunderstanding.

[TrueINFJ @trueINFJ]

@intpedia I am still very close with my high school best friends - but we’ve all gone off and done very different things in life. Our friendship transcended that. I think the key is to find friends that enable your growth, rather than hinder it.

[TrueINFJ @trueINFJ]

There’s a very distinct kind of grief when you irretrievably lose the opportunity to share an experience with someone.

[TrueINFJ @trueINFJ]

“You are not a drop in the ocean;
You are the ocean in a drop.”
- Rumi

/3

[TrueINFJ @trueINFJ]

When enormously tragic things happen in the world, like the earthquake in Syria and Turkey, it can make my own struggles feel trivial. After all, who am I to feel sad when I have so much more than so many others in crisis?

/1

[TrueINFJ @trueINFJ]

But I think our collective humanity rests on being conscious of our feelings, our ethics, and our needs. How can you serve others if you’re not able to empathize? And how can you empathize without first practicing self-awareness and compassion?

/2

[TrueINFJ @trueINFJ]

I cannot believe I’ve lived 37 years as an HSP without noise cancelling headphones.

[TrueINFJ @trueINFJ]

https://t.co/uzF8qGa226

[TrueINFJ @trueINFJ]

Connection is the meaning of life.

Connection *is* life.

[TrueINFJ @trueINFJ]

One of my favourite things in the world is when you’re going about your daily routine and you notice the same people at the same time and in the same place every day, and you both start to say hello, and soon you’re little bright spots in each others’ days.

[Heidi Priebe ⛰️☀️ @HeidiPriebe1]

“We don’t often want to admit that our attachment is unhealthy, not the other person.” 👌👌👌

[TrueINFJ @trueINFJ]

Insensitive people really have no idea how damaging they can be to an HSP.

[TrueINFJ @trueINFJ]

@intpedia When they’re born even air is new to them. Kind of insane to think that they have yet to learn literally every single thing they’ll ever know about this world.

[TrueINFJ @trueINFJ]

@RickBColby Things like this are how I know I have soulmates I haven’t yet met 🥹

[TrueINFJ @trueINFJ]

I’m not saying don’t have kids, but I am saying make sure you have the right support or you’re going to burn out. I spend most days just drowning in cortisol. It’s rough.

[TrueINFJ @trueINFJ]

Parenting as an #HSP is incredibly difficult. Kids push all of your buttons, and as an HSP you have a lotttttt more buttons than the average person. And so many of your usual coping mechanisms for over-arousal will not be accessible to you for sheer lack of time.

[TrueINFJ @trueINFJ]

@WholesomeMeme Plot twist: the introvert wrote this to themselves 😂

[TrueINFJ @trueINFJ]

I know this is a season of life and I’ll one day have time to myself again. But for now, I often just feel like I’m running on empty, and instead of healthy processing I’m looking for ways to numb it all. Which, as an HSP, is itself a monumental task. /5

[TrueINFJ @trueINFJ]

I’m currently re-reading “The Highly Sensitive Person” and a few things have clicked today. In one of the reflection exercises, I had written down that, growing up, anytime I was overwhelmed or upset, my family shut me out completely. I don’t recall ever having a conversation /1

[TrueINFJ @trueINFJ]

But now, with two young children, I am constantly overwhelmed - and I have no alone time whatsoever, so the coping strategies I used to rely on are not accessible to me anymore. /4