The Myth of Being "Too Sensitive" (And What That Phrase Actually Did to You)
Most of us who are wired for deep feeling have heard some version of it: you're too sensitive. You're too much. You feel things too deeply. And somewhere along the way, we believed it.
In the very first episode of The Energy Xchange, I'm sharing my own story of growing up in a not-very-feeling-forward household, learning to make myself smaller to stay safe, and the long road to understanding that my sensitivity was never actually the problem.
Sensitivity is not a personality flaw; it's a spectrum of deep feeling, and it shows up differently depending on how regulated and grounded you are. For a lot of us, it started as a survival mechanism. We learned to read the room early, to anticipate other people's emotions, to stay quiet and keep the peace.
Here's the reframe that changed everything for me: that same sensitivity is a built-in feedback system. It gives us early detection of misalignment. It allows us to hold multiple perspectives at once. It makes us exceptional in relationships, in business, and in community - but only when we learn to work with it instead of against it. The problem isn't the sensitivity; it's how we've learned to carry it.
When we suppress it (biting our tongue, shrinking, overriding what we know), we burn out. We get resentful. We disconnect from our intuition. We slowly lose access to the parts of ourselves that make us most powerful.
This episode is an invitation to stop hiding the most alive part of you!