No one knows a Sensitive Soul, like a Sensitive Soul. No one knows the struggles of an Earth Angel, like an Earth Angel.
I've always been sensitive, but I haven't always understood or even liked it!
My sensitivities started showing up in my childhood. I was extremely empathetic, I picked up on energy from others, and I acted and treated people with the tender touch and open heart common to the more sentient folks like myself. I was also very sensitive to my environment, suffering from severe allergies that caused migraines that started when I was 5 years old.
As you probably know, supercharged sensitivity can be both a blessing and a curse.
I have always been a person who others would pour out their souls to - who is able to see to the core of a person and help them from that place... but the fact that I am (almost hyper) conscious of others and their feelings often puts me at a disadvantage when it come to standing up for myself and also leaves me in a place that felt oversensitive, emotionally raw, or drained by others.
Aside from that, some see sensitivity as a flaw rather than a virtue. Others will totally take advantage of a Sensitive Soul in both business and in personal life.
For a time, I turned my back on my true nature and tried to grow a thick skin. I hated it and didn't like myself at all when I tried to be more like others. Denying my sensitive nature was forced and unnatural and always left me kicking my own ass because I felt guilty about the things that I had said or done.
So I returned to being sensitive, nice, kind, gentle. But I also got an edge...
I learned to take care of myself, to set boundaries, to assert my own needs - and also to accept and make friends with my natural perceptiveness and emotional nature and to use those characteristics to help others!
So here I am.