You Are Not Too Sensitive - You Are an Empath in a World That Punishes Feeling

You knew before you had words for it. You walked into a room and felt the tension before anyone spoke.

You knew before you had words for it. You walked into a room and felt the tension before anyone spoke.

You absorbed your mother's sadness like a sponge absorbs water - silently, completely, without any mechanism for wringing yourself out. You cried at movies that did not make anyone else cry.

You could not watch the news without carrying it in your body for days.

You were told you were too sensitive, too emotional, too much - and you believed it, because when every authority in your young world agrees that something is wrong with you, you do not question the consensus.