Soft Nudge

Your Sensitivity is a Signal

Soft Nudge Friday is here — may it open your heart like a peony in morning light.

In my childhood home, emotion and feeling were uninvited guests. I watched how the adults became visibly uncomfortable when strong feelings surfaced.

And because what is resisted tends to persist, this only intensified things. Big outbursts weren’t welcomed, but they arrived often. The urgency of emotion—and the truth carried within it—refused to be ignored.

This left me with a quiet dilemma: I could share how I felt, which triggered discomfort, or stay silent. It became clear—my feelings should be kept out of sight.

Over time, I learned that to be accepted and loved, I had to tuck away what I knew, saw, and felt.

Then something happened. My body rebelled.

Sensitivity isn’t something you can switch off like a light. Shutting down what I felt meant shutting down parts of me.

Turning away from my subtle yet powerful emotional responses—my deeply sensitive and vulnerable nature—meant hiding my truest self.

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Healing meant unlearning that pattern.
It meant recognizing the small, persistent ways I was still overriding my own signals:
– A headache surfacing in a moment of resistance.
– Tight muscles clenching when I sensed an untruth.
– A knot in my stomach when something felt off or dis-resonant.

These weren’t inconveniences. They were inner guidance.

Your sensitive body is always communicating with you.
But many of us have been taught to devalue, distrust, or even fear what our bodies say.

Feelings get labeled irrational.
Sensations get ignored.
And little by little, we begin to override the very signals designed to guide us.

But for these signals to truly lead you, you must stay sensitive to them.

That means creating space to feel, to notice, to respond.

Culture rarely gives you that space.

Neither do many jobs, relationships, or roles.
You have to choose it.

You must decide to value and honor your inner world.
Otherwise, you risk losing your way.

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Let this weekend be a gentle return.

Ask softly:

• What is your body trying to tell you that your mind has been overriding?

• Where in your life have you been taught to silence your signals?

• What would it feel like to begin listening again?

In exquisite softness,

🎙P.S. If you haven’t yet, this week’s episode of Soft Human Voice is a tender conversation about death, astrology and grief— a continuation of this week’s intuitive invitation theme of vulnerability. Listen 🎧 right here.