The Gift of Sensitivity
A Love Letter to Feeling Deeply
I will never take for granted the ability to receive emotions so fully. Some of my most intensely felt emotional experiences haven’t necessarily been my own—they’ve come as a response to others. In Human Design, my emotional center (or solar plexus) acts as a mirror, amplifying and reflecting the feelings around me. This openness allows me to deeply feel others’ joy, grief, sadness, anger, and excitement, all in my own way. Yet, it’s also teaching me to discern between what emotions are mine and which aren’t.
This openness to emotions isn’t just about experiencing everything around me—it’s about discovering the wisdom within what I feel. It’s a gift that teaches me not only to connect more deeply with others but also to honor my own inner landscape. When we allow emotions to simply exist, without the pressure to fix or change them, something transformative unfolds.
We’re often taught to respond to others' shared highs and lows with action or words. Yet, when words fail, I sometimes feel like I’ve let the person down. But my open emotional center is showing me that simply being present with someone’s emotions, in the way I’m able to, can be an act of emotional depth in itself. With each second of connection, feeling with another deepens my emotional awareness. I may not always have the right words—more often, I have the wrong ones—but I have a heart that can feel you, and with that, eyes to truly see you.
In the past, I would make light of how easily I cried at commercials while remaining hardened to my own lived experiences that ‘should’ have elicited real tears. Or I’d feel self-conscious about tearing up witnessing someone else’s emotion. But what inner work has shown me is how healing it is to welcome my sensitivity. It’s a gift—a quiet strength and emotional intelligence that broadens as I stay present, honoring both my own experiences and those of others.
Sensitivity is a gift—a quiet strength and emotional wisdom that deepens by being fully present.
Through this journey of deep feeling and reflection, my sensitivity has shifted from something I once hid or felt unsure about to something I treasure. It’s not a weakness—it’s my emotional center guiding me.
I don’t want anyone else’s life. I want to be radically awake within my own.
From the moment I wake, I’m in a constantly receiving and responding. This is coded within my energetic makeup. Emotions, energy, daily responsibilities, or the expectant eyes of the dogs who have blessed us with their care—I feel my brain and body responding, both consciously and unconsciously, scanning and taking it all in. For me, spiritual awakening, alignment, higher consciousness, whatever we are calling it, is an ongoing, moment-to-moment practice—observing, feeling, and responding as best as I can with where I’m at.
And it’s not even about getting it right every time. It’s about trusting that whatever I’m feeling in the moment is valid, that my emotions—however complex or contradictory—offer me clarity and data for this experiment in being alive. The more I understand them, the more confident and grounded I respond.
Self-trust is about trusting the unknown, or rather, trusting yourself to navigate it. I’m not as interested in knowing the future as I am in knowing myself. Because life is full of moments when conflicting truths and feelings must coexist, and there’s immense power in expanding our capacity to hold that duality. Honestly, it’s this very ability that lets me appreciate the magic that continues to unfold in my relationships—whether in coaching partnerships, friendships, collaborations, or romantic connection.
Sensitivity is indeed a gift—one we often take for granted, not fully understanding that it requires attention and practice to tap into its fullest potential and wield it with intention. When we shift the lens through which we see the world, we create opportunity for deeper understanding. It’s about seeing duality—the ability to hold space for joy and pain, certainty and fear—and trusting that this delicate dance is what brings more meaning and richness to life.
Emotions are not roadblocks, but part of the human experience, and when I allow myself to fully feel them, they guide me towards a more authentic and satisfying way of life.
Recently, during a coaching session, my client asked me to elaborate on the saying, “Life is not happening to me, it’s happening through or for me.” The idea of life happening to them was easy to grasp—it felt familiar, like an automatic response to external events. But life happening through and for them was more abstract.
For me, the simplest way to explain it is that it's about expansion. Life happening to me feels like restriction and limitation, as though I'm being pushed through circumstances instead of moving with them. Life happening through me brings acceptance; instead of reacting, I align with the flow, trusting that what comes my way is part of the process. And when life happens for me, that’s where true expansion lies. Every experience, whether it’s joy, struggle, or failure, becomes an opportunity to expand my capacity to feel. It’s through this practice that we learn to be with life, without resisting it.
What emotions are you navigating right now? Maybe it’s time to stop resisting and start breathing into those feelings, even the hard ones.
In coaching, we make an agreement to hold ourselves accountable, to challenge outdated limitations. And truthfully, we’re not always ready to meet our limits until we just are, and even that comes in waves. The goal isn’t to erase the discomfort, but to open the door to new ways of experiencing it.
"Emotions are not roadblocks they are part of the human experience" xoxo PS) Sorry not Sorry for giving you so many emotions to process ;) Loving your perspective on emotions!