For as long as I can remember, I’ve felt everything deeply; the beauty, the ache, the quiet spaces in between.
As a Highly Sensitive Person, the world has often felt too loud, too fast, too much. For many years, I searched for a place where I could simply breathe, where my nervous system could rest and my heart could be met with softness.
I never quite found it.
So I created it.
The Sanctuary for the Highly Sensitive was born from my own need for gentleness, a place to return to when the world frays at the edges.
It’s a weaving together of all that I love and all that has sustained me; art, energy, stillness, and beauty.
I spent nearly two decades guiding others as a therapist and mentor, helping sensitive souls heal, release, and come home to themselves.
Throughout it all I was always creating by embroidering, threading gemstones into malas, drawing or writing and I began to see that creativity itself was an intuitive part of my own healing and nourishment. It became clear that sensitivity, artistry, and nervous system wisdom are not separate things. They are threads of the same tapestry, nurturing the art of being alive in a tender body. And so I began creating my next expression of beauty and healing; a digital retreat, a deep breath in a sometimes heavy world.
Now, I hold this Sanctuary as a living, breathing space, a soft place to land for those like me who long for tenderness, softness and calm in a busy world.
Here, sensitivity is not something to manage but something to honour. Through gentle writings, meditations, and creativity, I hope to remind you that your sensitivity is not a weakness but is your way of feeling the world into being.
This Sanctuary is as much for me as it is for you, a quiet rebellion against the noise. A place to remember the language of peace.
Welcome home.
May you find here what you most need.
With warmth and tenderness,
Alexandra Rose