Sensitivity is not weakness.
Quite the opposite, actually.
To be sensitive is to feel more, and to feel more deeply.
It is to experience the world more intensely and through a thinner, more porous barrier than others.
But to be sensitive also requires a greater degree of self care because sensitive people do not typically get to choose when and to what they are sensitive.
When everything is experienced more intensely, life can become overwhelming.
The world can feel hostile to the senses.
Boundaries must be established to protect oneself from becoming overstimulated, overwhelmed, and burned out.
Time must be taken to step back, to process one’s experiences, and to recharge from life’s interactions.
But from this place of healthily managed sensitivity, something intensely beautiful and moving can emerge, for sensitivity interpreted and presented back to the world is art.
Meditations on God 