3 Things 🌿

For Highly Sensitive Creatives 🌸

Hello Kindred Spirit, 

I hope you’re doing well! It’s been a while since I wrote to you last. Slowly, after some health issues & some times that dipped low, I am getting back to sowing new seeds.

Here are 3 things I want to share with you this time:

1. Book Recommendation: I have been reading Anita Moorjani’s book Sensitive is the New Strong, which is the next pick for The Highly Sensitive Creative Book Club.

Something from Sensitive is the New Strong stood out to me. This is something I’ve said to friends myself (quoting this exact quote), so I found it really relatable:

“For empaths, the popular childhood quote of “Sticks & stones may break my bones, but words can never harm me” doesn’t ring true. When we hear criticism, it gets blown out of proportion within us. For example, a little girl, feeling full of herself and in love with life, is told, “People would like you more if you weren’t so loud.” While one child might shrug the comment off as a crabby parent needing a little quiet, a more sensitive child might clam up and absorb the harsh comment as true, as a sign that she’s unlikable when she’s just being herself.” 

This feels so true to my own experience, even though I was a shy, quiet little child! 

If you are interested in this book club, I will be sending out a sign-up link next week once the event is live on Eventbrite. Please keep a lookout for it, if you’re interested.

2. How to Build a Village. In this piece, Rosie Spinks talks about how to build a village.

“You don’t need friends, you need people. Kurt Vonnegut wrote that most marriages fail because they don’t have enough people in them:

“You should know that when a husband or wife fight, it may seem to be about money or sex or power. But what they’re really yelling to each other about is loneliness. What they’re really saying is, ‘you’re not enough people.’”

3. “It isn’t that the evil thing wins – it never will – but that it doesn’t die.” If you are feeling exhausted by the nature of the world, this may be a strangely helpful way to look at it. As this year is coming to its last chapter, I thought it was appropriate to share learnings from a year gone by.     

That’s all from me this time. I hope you have a great weekend!

With love,

Ritu

Ritu Kaushal is the author of the book The Empath’s Journey and a Silver Medal Awardee at the Rex Karamveer Chakra Awards, co-presented by the United Nations in India.

She also works as a writing coach for intuitive writers.

Find more about Ritu on her site here.