Despite what you may have been taught, your sensitivity doesn’t make you weak.
It doesn’t make you too emotional, too soft, or in any way too much. It has always been and will always be a strength.
The truth is that you can be soft and still be strong.

You aren’t a rock, immune to the shift and pull of the world around you.
You’re the ocean.
Always ebbing and flowing... easily affected by the moon and the weather.
Yes, you feel things intensely and yes, you’re easily wounded by others.
But it’s the intensity of your feelings that gives you such incredible insight into who you are and what you need to feel whole.
It’s that intensity that makes you deeply connected to yourself and the world around you. And it’s your wounds that allow you to be empathetic and compassionate towards the wounds of others.

Wounds that give you an awareness to recognize when people are hurting, and tools to offer support in ways that less sensitive people might not be able to.
I know that it’s so hard to believe in the moment when you feel incapacitated by your feelings, but your sensitivity is a truly a gift.

Don’t let anyone, including yourself, convince you otherwise.

- Daniell Koepke