Do You Overthink Because You Are Afraid To Trust Your Body?

Here’s how I start trusting my body and feelings again

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Acknowledging and embracing myself as a highly sensitive and empathic person still feels unsafe and weird. I am sensitive to others’ emotions, loud noises, flashing lights, and violence. I can get easily carried away in someone else’s joy, sadness, or anger or be easily intimidated by others. And I suspect this is why I resist feeling through all these emotions and sensations the way my body wants.

I overthink and constantly ruminate to prevent myself from feeling through all these sensations that are triggered in me.

Overthinking is more socially acceptable than feeling our feelings

Why do so many of us admit guilty of overthinking? In a way, overthinking sort of feels like I’m more focused in the energetic realms, and it’s much more socially acceptable for me to be caught overthinking, yet it’s not healthy for me. Do you have this secret rationale as well?

Being highly sensitive people, we need to accept and embrace what we sense instead of judging and rationalizing what we sense. It’ll drive us into mental and emotional overwhelm!