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Calling all sensitive souls!!!

Are you a sensitive soul?

If not.. that’s ok.. we still love you and you can scroll on through… but if you are a highly sensitive and empathic person hang tight with me for a bit! K?

If you are a sensitive, empath (or just think you might be) - stressed, overwhelmed and plagued by anxiety on a regular basis then let’s chat!

I have lived my entire existence with an anxiety that was so a part of my every day life, I didn’t even recognize it as anything other than my personality. I just thought I was weird. My mom called me a nervous Nelly.

To give you an example… on one typically anxious morning in Third Grade I remember packing my backpack for school and noticing that my homework assignment was a bit wrinkled (just a bit - we are talking three or four small creases in one corner of two pieces of paper that had folded together). I FREAKED out! I was in tears. The perfectionist in me could not, would not, hand in wrinkled homework! So.. what did I do? Well the problem solver in me got out the iron and I ironed my homework till it was crisper than a Lays potato chip! Problem solved.. or was it?

I think about this memory sometimes when I find crumpled up papers in my children’s backpacks (2 of the 3 anyway.. 1 can Marie Kondo your house… I’ll let you guess which one;)). I cannot for the life of me understand how they can put important papers in their backpacks crumpled up… it literally pains me to see but… it also kind of inspires me to be less rigid. It fascinates me that they don’t even care that the papers are crumpled. I would have been in tears and plugging in the hair straightening iron (it actually works better than a regular iron.. I may have straightened some wrinkled bills once or twice.. maybe three times… what?)

So… where am I going with this?!?

Being sensitive is fine.. it is more than fine! Nothing has gone wrong!

Think of people like automobiles. There are sports cars, cruising cars, trucks etc.. Each type of car has strengths and weaknesses. The super charged Porsche hugs the road and goes from 0 to 60 in a nano second… the Cadillac drives smoothly and is easy to steer, the truck can transport large, heavy boxes of hair straightening irons to all of your houses so you too can straighten your money… but seriously… they all have gifts and they all have limitations... just like US! Some people prefer a sports car (my dad and my boys) and some prefer a cruising car (my grandma!) and some prefer a truck (my mom loves herself a good truck!). So .. I am not sure which car we sensitives are in this analogy but the point is that we just need to take care of the car we have and respect the car’s wiring - its gifts and limitations. A Porsche is not angry that it feels all the bumps in the road… and the truck doesn’t feel unworthy because it doesn’t go as fast as the Porsche! Right?

So… like the cars ..

We HAVE to love on and respect our neurological wiring. We can start by just getting curious about it. Understanding your wiring is really just a step towards creating more self intimacy. Instead of beating ourselves up for being different in a society that values extroversion and toughness we can love on our difference and begin to notice the magic of who we are… because I think we are ALL magical!!!

Message me if you want to tap into the magic that is YOU!!!