I wrote this piece to record as a voiceover for this video. Feel free to watch it here.
This is for the sensitive souls who actually aren’t that sensitive.
For the ones who learned that showing your feelings is too vulnerable, unwelcome.
So you crushed them far down your throat.
You learned to mask up + craft walls too high to climb.
You instead learned to channel all those emotions inwardly- to shame yourself for being too needy, too overwhelmed, too excited, too much.
Because when you do express your emotions, they are too big for others to handle. But guess what, sweet one? That’s on them.
You are not too much. And you are not not enough.
You are incredible + beautiful just the way you are.
Sensitive. Feeling. Overcome by a wide range of emotions day in + day out.
Please don’t numb them or hide them or shame them away.
Let them rise in your chest, your belly, your eyes.
Let them flow out of you in your poetry, dance, painting, music.
The world needs your sensitivity. And the world needs your art.