If You’ve Ever Been Told You’re Too Sensitive

Many sensitive people grow up believing something is wrong with them, that they need thicker skin, fewer feelings, less depth. But sensitivity is not a flaw or weakness. It can't be otherwise, it wouldn't have survived evolution.

Highly sensitive people (20% of the population) often carry hidden strengths: empathy that builds meaningful bonds, intuition that reads between the lines, creativity born from rich inner worlds, and resilience that comes from deeply integrating experience, like crying rather than avoiding it.

In this track, you are invited to pause, breathe & reframe what you’ve been taught about your sensitivity. You can return to this track whenever you feel overstimulated, dismissed, or like you don’t fit into a world that values toughness over tenderness.

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Music Credit: Piano by Tom Evans & The Inner Calling by Music of Wisdom

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Transcript

If you have been told that you are too sensitive because you get hurt more easily than other people because things affect you more deeply,

Then pause with me now.

Breathe.

My dear one,

Sensitivity is not a weakness.

It's a nervous system that processes more,

More emotions,

More sensations,

And more information.

It picks up on things that other people miss,

Tone of the voice,

Shifts in energy,

And subtle details.

Yes,

That means you feel pain more sharply.

But it also means you feel love more fully,

Beauty more deeply,

Connections more honestly.

And yes,

Since you process so much information,

Your system gets overwhelmed easily.

But at the same time,

It also offers you something positive.

It adds on to your strengths.

It makes you more empathetic,

Intuitive,

Creative,

And good at pattern recognition.

In the right environment,

It becomes wisdom.

The pain doesn't come from sensitivity itself.

It comes from being in environments that doesn't make space for it.

From being told you are too much.

From having your feelings dismissed.

From being overstimulated or unsupported.

You don't need to feel less.

You need more understanding,

Clearer boundaries,

And kinder ways to care for what you feel.

Because your emotions are not misbehaviors.

They are signals.

They carry information about your needs and your limits.

So,

My dear one,

Being sensitive doesn't mean you are fragile or flawed.

It means you are deeply perceptive.

It means you are alive.

You are experiencing life fully.

Thank you for listening.

Take care.

Bye-bye.