About a year ago I was not myself… At the time, the best way I could describe it to my fiancé was that I had so many “tabs” open in my head that I had run out of mental “bandwidth”…  I felt as if I had exhausted all resources; mental, emotional, and physical, and that I had very little energy left for the important people and activities in my life. In search of some relief, I came across Annemarie Lombard’s book “Sensory Intelligence®”. It was here I learned that I am extremely “Sensory Sensitive”, becoming overstimulated very easily by my external environment. Finally, everything started to make sense – I felt like a sponge absorbing every little detail of what was happening around me. Furthermore, I knew that others around me were not experiencing life in this way…  This year I have taken steps to create a lifestyle that suits my needs – one where I am able to work independently and have much more space in my day for quiet, deep, creative work and alone time for reflection and meditation…  I am now feeling more myself than I have in a long time and I have so much more energy and mental clarity. I feel like understanding my sensory style was the missing puzzle piece that finally gave me the push I needed to create a lifestyle that works for me.