Your Sensitivity Is a Superpower
Don’t be afraid of using it.
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5 min readMay 28, 2021
Remember the story Princess and the Pea written by Hans Christian Anderson? It’s a fairy tale that honors sensitivity as a royal trait, but I’ve also heard it used by parents and caregivers to belittle sensitive children.
Most of us grew up with the conditioned belief that our high sensitivity is simply too much to handle. We might be…