The Pivot journal
Bite-sized breakthroughs: 5-minute reads to fuel your transformation.
Highly Sensitive and Ambitious? How to Achieve Success Without Burnout
Being a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) and having big ambitions can feel like a paradox. On one hand, you’re deeply driven, creative, and passionate about making an impact. On the other, you’re more prone to overwhelm, emotional exhaustion, and burnout when the pressure builds.
How to Rewire Your Brain During a Life Pivot
Real change doesn’t just happen through mindset. It happens in your nervous system. In your habits. In the quiet ways your brain learns what to expect. That’s why during a life pivot — when you’re shifting how you live, work, or relate to yourself — your brain needs time and support to adapt.
How to Use Micro-Habits to Achieve Big Changes in Your Life
We all know that big, life-changing transformations often seem daunting. Whether you're trying to get healthier, build a business, or find more joy in your day-to-day, the process can feel overwhelming. But what if I told you that you don’t have to make huge, dramatic changes to see significant results? The secret lies in micro-habits.
Have You Always Been the Caretaker? Why Putting Yourself First as an HSP Feels Hard—But Necessary
If you’ve spent most of your life putting others before yourself, feeling responsible for people’s emotions, and struggling to say no, you’re not alone. As a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP), your deep empathy and heightened awareness make it easy to take on the role of caretaker—often at the expense of your own needs.
The Hidden Strengths of Being Highly Sensitive (And How to Use Them to Your Advantage)
For years, being a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) has been misunderstood. Many HSPs are told they’re “too sensitive,” “too emotional,” or need to “toughen up” to succeed. But the truth is, high sensitivity is a powerful trait that offers unique strengths—when you learn how to harness it correctly.
Should I Quit My Job or Just Take a Break? A Calm Way to Know
We all hit a point where the thought pops up: Should I quit my job? But right underneath that question is often another one we don’t say out loud: Or do I just need a break? If you’re high-functioning, responsible, and used to pushing through, it can be hard to tell the difference. Are you genuinely done with this path, or just running on empty?
When You’re Tired of Pushing: A New Way to Do Life + Work
Feeling burnt out from constantly hustling or overdoing? Discover 6 practical, grounded ways to slow down, find your rhythm, and create a life and business that feels aligned, not exhausting.
Navigating Relationships and Career as an HSP: Finding Alignment Without Burnout
Being a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) means experiencing life with a heightened awareness of emotions, energy, and subtle details that others might overlook. While this trait comes with incredible strengths—such as deep empathy, intuition, and creativity—it can also make navigating relationships and career paths more challenging.
How to Set Boundaries and Protect Your Energy as a Highly Sensitive Person
Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) experience the world more intensely than others. We absorb emotions, notice subtle energy shifts, and often feel responsible for the well-being of those around us. While this deep empathy is a gift, it can also lead to emotional exhaustion, people-pleasing, and burnout if we don’t set clear boundaries.
Nervous System Regulation for Highly Sensitive People: How to Build Emotional Resilience
Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) experience the world more intensely than others. From absorbing emotions in a crowded room to feeling overstimulated by noise, lights, or social interactions, HSPs process sensory and emotional input at a much deeper level.
How Being an HSP Shapes Your Life Pivots (And How to Navigate Them With Confidence)
For Highly Sensitive People (HSPs), life transitions—whether it’s a career shift, moving to a new place, or ending a relationship—can feel more intense and overwhelming than they do for others. This is because HSPs process experiences more deeply, absorb emotions from their environment, and have a heightened nervous system response to change.
The Challenges of Reinvention as an HSP: Overcoming Fear, Judgment & Emotional Overwhelm
Reinvention—whether it’s a career pivot, lifestyle change, or personal transformation—is never easy. But for Highly Sensitive People (HSPs), it can feel particularly overwhelming.
HSPs process change more deeply than others. Our nervous systems are wired for heightened awareness, emotional intensity, and deep empathy, which makes transitions feel heavier, riskier, and more exhausting.
Why Change is Harder for HSPs—And What No One Tells You
Struggling with change as a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)? You’re not alone. Discover why transitions feel overwhelming for HSPs, how your nervous system impacts change, and the missing piece that no one talks about. Learn how to navigate life transitions with confidence.
Highly Sensitive Person Test: Are You an HSP?
A Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) is someone who has a more sensitive nervous system, meaning they process sensory input, emotions, and environmental stimuli more deeply than others. Coined by Dr. Elaine Aron, the HSP trait affects roughly 15-20% of the population and is characterised by heightened empathy, deep processing, and strong emotional reactivity. Many people take a Highly Sensitive Person test to determine whether they fall into this category.
HSPs & Career Change: How to Find Work That Feels Right for You
If you're a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP), you may have spent years in a career that doesn’t truly fulfill you. Maybe you feel drained, unappreciated, or like you’re constantly forcing yourself into an environment that just doesn’t fit you. Deep down, you know you’re meant for something more—but every time you think about making a change, fear stops you in your tracks.
Cultivating Confidence in a Life Pivot (Without Forcing It)
If you’re in a season of transition, your confidence might feel... off. You’re not failing. You’re just in the middle of outgrowing one version of yourself and becoming another. That in-between space can feel foggy, uncertain, or even hollow — especially if your confidence used to come from performance, achievement, or clarity.
How to Regain a Sense of Control in a Life Pivot
When life or work no longer feels aligned, the instinct is often to fix it fast. We make a list. Set goals. Search for a clear plan. But in a life pivot — when you’re between identities, directions, or definitions of success — control can’t come from structure alone. It has to come from within.
How to Get Unstuck When You’re in a Life Pivot
Stuck doesn’t always look dramatic. Sometimes, it looks like sitting in front of your laptop for an hour without doing anything. Scrolling. Overthinking. Avoiding. Starting something, then closing the tab. Other times, it’s bigger: staying in a job that feels off. A relationship that doesn’t quite fit. A version of yourself that no longer feels true.
The Mindset Shift That Happens During a Life Pivot
There comes a moment in many life pivots when your actions aren’t the problem — your mindset is. You’re still showing up. Still putting in effort. Still doing "the work." But deep down, it feels like something no longer fits. Your usual ways of thinking, planning, and motivating yourself just... don’t work anymore.
Why Clarity Is Key to Achieving Your Goals
When you think about achieving your biggest goals, what comes to mind? Most people focus on the destination or the end result—but one of the most important factors in reaching your goals is something that often gets overlooked: clarity.