This reflection is adapted from Rise & Realign: Conversations for the Sensitive Soul - Episode 9:
When Sensitivity Leads the Way: Nervous System Care, Nature, & Inner Guidance, recorded on December 31.

Welcome to Rise & Realign: Conversations for the Sensitive Soul.

This space is for those of us...

Author’s Note:

This reflection was born from the first four episodes of Rise & Realign: Conversations for the Sensitive Soul. Before these words were ever written, they were spoken - rising through breath, intuition, sensitivity, and the spark of awakening in my own chest. What you read here is ...

There comes a moment when the nervous system stops asking, “What’s next?” and begins whispering, “Can I rest now?”
 
That whisper is where healing begins.

The Body Remembers the Brace

There was a time I didn’t know how to stop bracing for life. Even when everything looked calm on the outside, I coul...

As the October full moon illuminates what has been growing beneath the surface, I’m reflecting on the quiet intelligence that connects our body and our mind and what happens when they fall out of rhythm.

In last month’s reflection, The Body That Refused to Be Ignored, I shared how illness and pain ...

For years, my body was speaking to me in ways I didn’t yet understand. The whispers began in childhood like recurrent strep, endless ear infections, tubes, adenoids removed, and later, the IBS diagnosis that nearly kept me from graduating high school because I missed so many days. My nervous system ...

There is a reason you feel so much.
A reason you sense what others miss.
A reason you’ve always felt a little different - watching the world from the edges, wondering why it all feels so loud, so fast, so much.

You are not broken.
You are not weak.
You are sensitive.
And your body isn’t betraying you - ...

Welcome to this third part of the Mind Series in the journey of embracing your highly sensitive self. Over the past two articles, we’ve explored the depths of your inner world, learning how to understand and nurture your sensitive mind and unravel the limiting beliefs that may have been holding you ...