Blog May 20, 2025

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“Am I Too Sensitive?” Dating as a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)

If you’re a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP), dating can feel like a high-stakes emotional tightrope. You’re not just picking up on what someone says — you’re absorbing how they say it, what they didn’t say, and how the whole room felt while it was happening.

For HSPs, love often feels intense, overwhelming, and deeply vulnerable. But with the right support and self-awareness, that same sensitivity can become your greatest strength in relationships. In this post, we explore how HSPs can approach dating with more clarity, nervous system regulation, and confidence, and why you’re not too much for the kind of love you deserve.

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ADHD Effects on Marriage: 5 Common Challenges and How to Overcome Them

ADHD often flies under the radar in relationships until the cracks start to show. When one partner has undiagnosed or untreated ADHD, it can quietly erode connection, increase resentment, and create an overwhelming imbalance in the physical and mental load, especially for couples raising young children. This blog explores the five most common challenges couples face when ADHD is in the mix and offers tangible, hopeful ways to move forward together. Because healing is possible, especially when we stop blaming, start understanding, and learn to team up again.

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Becoming Who We Are: The Power of LGBTQIA+ Affirming Therapy in Idaho

Finding a therapist who truly understands your identity shouldn’t feel like a second job. For LGBTQIA+ individuals and couples in Idaho, Tree City Wellness offers deeply affirming, relational therapy grounded in lived experience, compassion, and clinical skill. Whether you’re exploring your gender or sexual identity, recovering from religious or family-based trauma, or seeking deeper connection in your relationships, we create a space where you don’t have to filter who you are. This is LGBTQIA+ therapy in Idaho that meets you where you are: with warmth, safety, and zero judgment.

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Krysteena Wilson and Madison Johnson giving a presentation about Attachment Styles at a high school in Boise, Idaho

Your Kids Want to Know About Attachment Styles, Too

Recently, we visited a local high school in West Boise to speak with students about communication and relationships. To our surprise (and delight), these teens were already familiar with terms like anxious, avoidant, and secure attachment. They wanted to understand how these patterns shape their friendships, dating experiences, and family dynamics.

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How to Remain Calm in an Argument: A Guide to Nervous System Regulation in Relationships

Wondering how to remain calm in an argument with your partner? This post breaks down the science of nervous system regulation, why early attachment patterns impact your conflict style, and how to self-regulate in the heat of the moment. Learn powerful tools in communication, nervous system exercises like vagus nerve stimulation and body scanning, and how to build everyday habits that support emotional connection, even during tough conversations.

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