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You're in a conversation and someone says they're fine. Their words are steady. But you already know they're not. You felt the shift in their tone two sentences ago. You caught the thing they didn't say. The pause that meant something.
Most people miss this. They hear the words and move on.
You felt the truth underneath.
That's not intuition, and it's not magic. That's your nervous system doing what it was built to do. You're sensitive because you're wired to pick up on signals. Real signals. The micro-expressions, the breath changes, the energy shifts that happen before anyone opens their mouth. You catch what's actually true before the story gets told.
And almost everyone tells you this is a problem.
They tell you to stop reading into things. Stop overthinking. Stop feeling so much. You learn early that your sensitivity is too much, that you pick up on things you shouldn't, that you're exhausting because you notice everything. So you start turning it down. You learn to ignore what you feel. You practice not saying anything. You become smaller.
And then you miss the gift.
The gift is not that you're broken. The gift is that you see things before they become obvious. You read people accurately. You know when something is about to shift. You feel when someone is lying. You catch the moment someone's heart closes off. You sense when an environment is unsafe. You know when someone genuinely cares versus when they're performing. You read the room so fast that most people think you're telepathic.
That's not weakness. That's a superpower that nobody trained you to use.
Instead they trained you to ignore it.
Your sensitivity means your nervous system is tuned to subtlety. You're not picking up noise. You're picking up signal. The difference is that signal is actually useful. When your friend tells you she's okay and you feel she's not, you're right. When you walk into a meeting and sense the tension before anyone speaks, you're right. When you know someone is not to be trusted even though they seem friendly, you're right. Your body knows. Your nervous system knows. You're just too used to discrediting it.
Here's what happens when you stop discrediting it.
You start to trust what you feel. Not as a reason to panic, but as information. Real information. The kind that helps you make better choices. You date people who are actually safe instead of people who look safe. You leave situations before they become toxic instead of staying in hope that they'll change. You know which people genuinely care and which ones are performing. You speak up when something is off instead of pretending everything is fine.
You stop waiting for logical confirmation of what you already felt.
I had a client who said she always knew when her partner was going to be angry, even when he seemed calm. She could feel the shift. And for years she tried to ignore it. She thought she was being paranoid. She tried to reason her way out of what she felt. Until one day she stopped discrediting her own nervous system and started trusting it. She would sense the shift and calmly say, "You seem upset. I'm going to step away." And she stopped getting blindsided. She stopped absorbing his anger. She stopped making it her fault. She was just reading accurately what was already true. Her sensitivity wasn't the problem. Her not trusting it was.
That's the whole shift.
Your sensitivity is not something to turn down. It's something to learn. Not to make you more anxious, but to make you clearer. The anxiety usually comes when you feel something but then don't trust it. When you override what you know. The clarity comes when you trust that you're reading it right, name what you feel, and make a choice based on it.
Which one hits you: Do you usually trust what you feel, or do you talk yourself out of it? Tell me in the comments.
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