Recently, in one of my Divine Feminine Reclamation mentorship sessions with Alison, she asked, “Please can you give me guidance/tools so that I don’t have to be at the end of my husband’s emotional chain?”. Apparently, he’s going through a lot with his spiritual journey.
A lightbulb turned on that she might be highly sensitive.
Yet having known her for 13 years, I was astounded that I hadn’t tuned into this aspect of her. After all, this is one of my niches, helping HSPs/Empaths appreciate the gift of their sensitivity and stop seeing it as a curse.
When I asked Allison if she thought she might be an HSP/empath, she said, “Absolutely, but I’ve learned to block it with my masculine energy and pretend that I’m not.”.
Oh wow! My mouth dropped. I’m very good at sussing this out in my clients, but she had done a ‘superb job’ of hiding it with her masculine energy…but to her detriment.
Hiding/trying to avoid that you’re highly sensitive takes a lot of hard work and so much energy. We are meant to have a balance, an interconnectedness with our inner feminine and inner masculine, not the masculine overpowering the feminine.
As we dug deeper, it became very clear that she had been told/programmed that SENSITIVE = WEAK (so not true!).
This notion that if you’re sensitive in any way, your weakness is the patriarchal programming to stop us from tuning into our feminine essence (not gender related).
I asked Allison, “Do you think of me as weak?”, “Absolutely not.” she responded.
I am extremely sensitive, a highly sensitive empath, and it’s my powerful sensitivity (feminine essence) that helps me be the healer, mentor, and medicine woman that I am.
So this is yet another reason why I’m all about the divine feminine, activating it within all of us (women and men), not just the HSP/Empaths.
The feminine sensitivity guides us, helps us intuit which path to take, helps us hold boundaries, do things that support our body, and feel our emotions, which are like our inner GPS.
Need support with this?
Like Allison, you might know you are resisting/blocking, but don’t have the tools to make the needed changes. Here are a few options: DFR mentorship program, Plant Medicine ceremony in Boulder, August 2 & 30, or the Women’s Retreat in Taos, September 11-14.
Reframe: Your feminine SENSITIVITY is Your super power!
Have a wonderful July 4th weekend.