How to Live as a Sensitive Person in a Not-So-Sensitive World.

Navigating life as a sensitive person isn’t a weakness, it’s soul strength. Here’s what I’ve learned about honouring sensitivity in a world that often misunderstands it.

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What It Meant to Be “Too Sensitive”

As a child growing up, I was often told, “Oh, you’re so sensitive,” or, “Why do you have to be so sensitive?” “It’s just a joke—don’t be like that.” "You can't be so sensitive in life.”

I am a sensitive person—deeply sensitive. You might even label me an HSP: a Highly Sensitive Person.

And as a sensitive soul, I felt all of that hurt. It still stings today, on a soul level.

When we sensitive folk do lash out, it's often after holding everything in for far too long. By then, we’re labelled again, “Why are you so angry?”So which is it? Sensitive or angry? What would you have us be?

Feeling It All: The Empath Experience

Alongside being “sensitive,” I am a full Empath. I emphasise full so you understand the extent, I feel everything that everyone feels. All the time. And I also feel everything on a collective level.

Our shared consciousness pulses through me. I can empathetically feel the waves of emotion humanity is experiencing on a soul level.

Accepting My Sensitivity in a Tough World

It’s taken years to accept that being sensitive in today’s world is okay. It’s okay to feel deeply in a world that can be cold, harsh, cruel, and often unforgiving. At times, I’ve resisted that truth because feeling so much can become overwhelming.

But living as a sensitive person cultivates strength. Not toughness, but raw, determined, unwavering strength.

We often learn through challenging experiences how strong we truly are. And all of it? Pre-determined. My soul chose this.

Before this incarnation, my soul made a selective, intuitive decision:To be sensitive. To be an empath. A healer. A shaman. A psychic. An intuitive. And a human.

My soul chose every moment. Every lesson. Every misstep and gift.

It chose to remain unawakened until my late 30s, walking a path that wasn’t mine, hiding who I was.

Until I finally woke up. Awakened into a new consciousness, into gifts that began to surface after the awakening.

Strength Through Sensitivity --- Living as a Sensitive Person

It turns out that the sensitivity I had once buried, masked behind a hardened exterior, that same sensitivity had a home within my soul. It was always okay to be there.

More importantly, it was okay to be seen.

Unmasking my shell, letting others in through vulnerability and sensitivity—It became my freedom. My soul family became the space where I could fully breathe. Where I could be all of me.

Balancing my sensitivity with my temper hasn’t been easy.

Because of my upbringing and limiting beliefs, my life often felt like a flickering light switch. On for temper, off for sensitivity. Back and forth.

It’s taken real work to maintain that balance. Some days, I get it right. Other days, it all falls apart, and I’m back to rebuilding.

When I let my sensitive side show, I’ve been dismissed, ridiculed, and taken advantage of. In those moments, parts of me shut down.

But still, I keep going.

Who Gets It, And Who Doesn’t

But, through some of those experiences, you learn...(a heart-centred segment on discernment, energetic alignment, and choosing connection)

That strength I mentioned earlier? It resurfaces when you let it.

Through those harder experiences, you learn who’s safe to show your sensitivity to.Some people welcome it. They hold space for you while you heal.

Others... they just won’t get you.

They can’t understand why something cuts to your core. Why you’re so deeply affected. They can’t grasp your sensitivity, and for that, you’ll need to step back. And sometimes? Walk away.

Then you choose: On what level do you engage with them moving forward?

It’s hard because we all long to be heard. To be seen. To be understood, flaws and all.

As a sensitive empath soul, I want that more than anything.Not just for myself, but for all who are sensitive.

Final Thoughts

You are strong. You are resilient.Your heart and soul feel so much, and can give so much.

You are worthy of this beautiful gift.

It’s time to start honouring our sensitivity.

Time to ooze that sensitivity into the dark, hidden corners of ourselves that are finally ready to shine.

Time to offer our expanded heart centres to others and to the world.

Being sensitive means we endure more than most. We carry deep compassion.And it’s our gift that will help heal the world.