Sensitivity is a superpower

On reclaiming the emotional depth they told you to hide

¡Hola, beautiful humans!

So, remember me? Sorry for my lack of consistency over here. Really. But turns out I’ve been extremely busy - falling…

stupidly in love! Long nights bus drives, hugs that last an eternity, mornings in heaven, a peace I can’t quite name. Well - you name it! So consider this my official “I’m back (sort of) and my heart is full (in the best way possible)” announcement!

Okey, now into the actual reason you’re here, you lovely people who subscribe to my rambles;

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I. The morning

The sun hit my face like it always does - with that gentle care from a lover. I got out of bed, grabbed a coffee, and sat outside in the garden. I try to take this time seriously, it’s my little ritual. Before the day starts grabbing at my attention, I like to sit with the quiet. No phone. Just breathing.

I recently got a letter from one of my friends from the U.S. He said that if he could bottled up a sound it would be the peep of the frogs. Mine? The raw sound crashing waves and seagulls doing their morning check-ins. The air, as cold as it can get. It’s a soft silence. A paradise, a sacred space.

Anyway,

But that morning, my brain wouldn’t stop running. It was like someone left a tap open. Thoughts flooding in. No pause. No breath.

Damn it, brain. Can’t you stay still for once?

And in the middle of that mess, I spiralled into a thought, or the thought spiralled into me. (Definitely influenced by a conversation I had with my grandma earlier that week.) -

- Some people suppress their emotions not because they don’t have them, but because they don’t know what to do with them.

II. Emotional scape

Personally, I’ve seen this plenty of this in elderly humans. They don’t know the words to explain what’s going on inside of them. So they stay silent. Evading them completely.

But emotions should nudge you into the right direction… and if you can’t hear them or make sense of them, what´s the point?

What’s the point of being angry if nothing changes - and you never let it?

Why get excited if it never lasts - and you never let yourself feel it fully?

What’s the use of sadness if it doesn’t bring anything back - and you never slow down enough to grieve?

Why love if it might break you - and you’ve already decided not to risk it?

There’s this strange gap, between feeling something and actually doing something about it. Like a relationship that quietly breaks down over time. A conversation that desperately needs to happen, but doesn’t. A job that drains every bit of your energy, but you keep showing up, pretending it’s fine.

We are conditioned not to feel fully.

Sensitive people, people who really notice, often get told they’re overreacting. Too intense.

And back in the days (and up until today) you were not even “allowed” to feel. With constant reminders like;

“You just need to toughen up.”

“Grow a thicker skin.”

“Stop taking everything so personally.”

These subtle yet potent comments will rot your unconscious and your will to feel anything at all.

III: The truth

But this is NOT overreacting, these people are just acting honestly, revealing their true selves. And other people don´t like it.

They are threatened by it.

There’s a brutal irony here. The people who often have the deepest insight into human experience are the ones most discouraged from sharing it.

There’s a quiet discomfort around emotional intensity. It messes with the clean, curated narratives “we” like to keep around. The person who notices small shifts in energy, who senses something is off before anyone else, is called “difficult” not because they’re wrong, but because they’re “inconvenient.” Inconvenient because they are unpredictable, raw, natural, deep feelers with the power to disrupt the conventional narrative society is holding into for dear life even knowing it´s about to break. These deep feelers, the ones who ask the question no one wants to answer, carry a flair that stands out in a world obsessed with appearances. They carry something else: the power to disrupt. To call out what’s breaking. To say what everyone’s been avoiding. And in a society clinging to its stories like a raft in a storm - that kind of presence isn’t just inconvenient.

It’s revolutionary.

Be like Jonathan Livingston Seagull

So we got conditioned not to share, not to feel, not too react.

And it’s not just people (intentionally or not), it’s everything… political structures, jobs, society. And clearly, social media does it too, only better. It throws content that keeps you in a vulnerable state. Instead of protecting that sensitivity, it exploits it. It feeds you carefully engineered chaos. Not because it hates you but because it needs you emotionally activated. A constant numbing we never agreed to.

And just to quote one of my favourites writers on this platform

A social media feed is like the Lethe, the mythical river in whose waters lost souls sought absolution, and received it in the form of oblivion.

Gurwinder

IV: The power

Someone who could’ve turned all that inner intensity into art, into movement, into something real, ends up in a loop, scrolling, lost in someone else’s narrative.

Virginia Woolf. Murakami. Kerouac.

They weren’t just writers, they were deep feelers who channeled their perception.

And their work challenged how people see reality.

That kind of sensitivity is disruptive.

A Woolf today might never even get a chance to write a single page, not because she’s not talented, but because she’s exhausted from information overload.

Because she’s caught in a system that wants her only to feel, but never to create.

And this thought kills me, rots my inner core.

That’s the paradox. Sensitive people are both the most “valuable” for the system (more engagement, more data, more reactions) and the most disruptive if they ever harness their sensitivity for something bigger than themselves.

So the system keeps them unstable.

Feeds them more content.

Makes them doubt.

Burns them out.

Drains their creative energy.

And what’s left is a shell; tired, anxious, stuck.

Been there? Me f*cking too.

When, in another version of the story, they could’ve been building something that mattered.

Because when sensitive people actually use their gifts, they don’t just make beautiful things. They change narratives & light the path for a new world.

So yeah. Sensitivity is a superpower.

But only if you learn how to protect it.

If this resonated…

You made it to the end, which means you probably care about this as much as I do.

So here’s the news I’ve been dying to share: I’ve “opened” arena studio. A space to slow down, write what matters, and rebuild our attention one page, one breath at a time.

If you’ve ever felt hijacked by algorithms, your sensitivity exploited, or your creativity buried under digital noise…

I created The Digital Reset for you.

It’s a 4-week guided, 1:1 journey to declutter your digital world, take back what’s rightfully yours, and reconnect with your inner one.

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If you’re ready to slow down and build something real, online and offline, let’s chat! I will love to help :)

Un abrazo,

Alejandro xxx