Sometimes the loudest voice in our mind is the echo of a child that once learned she had to protect herself in order to survive. For many highly sensitive women, negative self-talk does not begin in the intellect. It begins in the body and in the tender younger parts of ourselves that still live timidly within our nervous system. When safety, attunement or emotional steadiness were unreliable in childhood, your system adapted in the only way it could. Your body braced, your h
