Author name: Kate Simpson

I was invited to speak with Kimberly Marsh recently, the host of The Happy HSP podcast. I’d love to know your reflections on this.
We talked about the ache of loneliness and longing for deeper connection as highly sensitive people, and how we can find belonging in community with other HSPs as this gives us the courage and validation to be our authentic selves.

There is a moment in every human life when words fall short. When we can no longer explain or fix or fully understand the world’s pain, but only feel it. And alongside that pain, if we’re still enough, we also feel its beauty

This beautiful and moving poem was written and shared on HSPconnect by James Drewitt, who has kindly allowed me share it with you.

So many of us wrestle with the question: What is my purpose? Why am I here?

The answers we’re offered are often about careers, goals, or family. Whatever your situation for many sensitive souls, the ache of purposelessness comes from something quieter, and more intimate.

It’s hard to believe it’s already been six months since we quietly opened the doors to the complete version of HSPconnect—a space imagined as a warm bath for Highly Sensitive People. A place where depth, kindness, and mutual care aren’t rare qualities but shared values.

Save this image and practice asking yourself these questions as a way of starting to learn the difference.

I was a ‘passenger’ on You Me Bum Bum Train last month.

If you know, you know. If you don’t—imagine stepping into a parallel universe where, every few minutes, you’re thrown into a completely different scene, character, or world… and expected to go with it.

Making new friends as an adult can be hard, so what risks are you willing to take to make new friends?