Trauma-informed yoga can be extremely helpful when dealing with emotional triggering, anxiety, and processing trauma with a therapist. Talk therapy has its limits as trauma is stored as memory in the body, making memory difficult to access. Photo cred: Chelsea Gates, Unsplashed

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Are you in a relationship with someone who rages at the slightest provocation?   Possibly you have the sense that almost anything can set them off.  You might feel that despite your efforts not to irritate or anger them, you inevitably do, leaving you confused and stunned by the level of rage that you may find yourself the target of.

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If you’re here reading this, my first thought is that you identify as a highly sensitive person (HSP), or are considering this may be a real possibility.   Possibly you faced criticism in childhood for your emotional sensitivity, making futile attempts to “toughen-up” and numb yourself, all the while learning to become an expert at hiding from criticism and misunderstanding.  We may have learned from well-meaning parents, who feared that their emotionally sensitive children may be taken advantage of, or worse - bullied by others, and that our way of being in the world was wrong.  We learned that we needed to nurse our wounds in private. Wounds that were inflicted by parents and others, while living in a state of semi-exhaustion in the never-ending cycle of engagement with others followed by retreat.

What are the traits of a Highly-Sensitive Person?