When I was younger, I often tried to manage other people’s emotions and that, with your own, is a lot of emotional management when you are an HSP (Highly Sensitive Person)! I remember deciding not to have a 21st Birthday Party because I was so worried about how my friends would get along – my old school friends, uni-student friends, football club friends and ‘heavy partying’ friends. Perhaps I worried unnecessarily but when you are an HSP you do ‘read (feel) the room’ strongly. I would have either FELT uncomfortable, or chosen to take the easy way out and just ‘numbed’ myself with alcohol. And in those days the latter would have been the choice. Fast forward to my many years as a practicing Naturopath and Counsellor, I have been able to use my sensitivity, and ability to ‘read (feel) the room’, to my advantage and help others with their physical and emotional health challenges.