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If you are a highly sensitive person (HSP), or if you love an HSP, I have help and affirmation for you in Episode 34 of Heart in a Drawer, the podcast for adult children of divorce.
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Why God made me an orchid girl
One afternoon several years ago, I cried out to God from my prayer closet: “Why do you allow me to feel so much pain?”
I was standing in the intersection of old grief and new grief. That summer I wrote many memories in the form of poems, an excruciating process of reliving past hurts. I brought old hurts out in the open on paper, examined the pain, grieved the loss of what they revealed, and worked to put them to rest.
Orchid girl: Peering into high sensitivity
Too itchy. Too tight. Too breezy. As a highly sensitive child I was keen to feelings, especially to touch.