For Empaths & Highly-Sensitive People
A new program - just for you!
Spending your whole life attuning to other peoples' feelings, moods, needs, anticipating & meeting those needs, means you have been missing the feelings, messages and needs from your own body. You can only listen to one at a time. Your voicemail is full and the messages are from your intuition. Your intuition has been talking to you through your body, through the feelings you were taught to ignore. To listen to your intuition now, we have to apologize to your Self for missing all the calls from your intuition before. We aren't responsible for the conditioning that made us afraid to pick up the call, but we are responsible to the impact of our intuition ignored.
The venn diagram of sensitivity, trauma responses and neurodivergency is, somewhat, a circle. Each of these unique capacities contributes to a higher sensitivity to the world around you. The origin may be a mystery (the classic query is it trauma or neurodivergency) but the outcome is the same - you feel too much.
The powers of sensitivity can also be seen as a trauma response. Being so finely tuned to the feelings of others, anticipating their needs, rifling through the "what-if" scenarios before deciding (if you can eventually thaw the freeze trauma response) are all ways our body tries to feel safe in the world after trauma.
Neurodivergent folks are often first identified as an "empath"or "sensitive", depending on how it's intended. Masking requires identifying others' feelings and adjusting accordingly in order to feel safe and accepted in the world - a necessity for being attachment-based beings
See if you’re a highly sensitive person with this quiz (if you’re thinking you are, you probably are).
Your sensitivity is your embodiment - they are indistinguishable. So much of our culture works to create disembodiment - from our work weeks, to never-ending to-do lists and the rife comparison of peoples' highlight reel. When we're disembodied, we can't hear the whisper of our Body, of our intuition. So our body has to shout and our body shouts through trouble sleeping, a hamster wheel of thoughts, tension in the body. Your Body has been holding onto the debt of putting yourself last.
Caring for your Body creates a positive feedback loop that you're worthy of love & care you're showing yourself. Caring for your Body is like becoming your own pool boy - cleaning your own waters so you can see clearly. Your Body is waiting.
Sensitivity is a gift - to feel so deeply is to embody the human experience in its fullness. Sensitivity is often misconstrued as a fragility and that isn't entirely accurate - sensitivity is a strength and is a litmus test to identify how safe the world is - the canary in the coal mine.
While sensitivity isn't fragility - it is soft. Softness is not synonymous with fragility - a crystal glass is fragile, unfired clay is soft. Fragility implies the threat of brokenness but softness is susceptible to impressions - as in, I can impress my handprint upon wet clay. You are not broken - you are soft clay.
Sensitivity is a power, but not a power over or exploitive power - an embodied power. In a world of hardness and exploitive power, there is a lot of pollutants impressing themselves upon the clay of sensitive folks.
It's time to reclaim your sensitivity as the powerful softness it is.
