TRIGGERED! When you feel shame about being too sensitive

Inner Work: A Spiritual Growth Podcast

Josephine Hardman

Self-improvement, Education, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.9 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

This episode of TRIGGERED! is going out to my fellow highly sensitive people and empaths. Do you sometimes (still) get triggered when you feel you're "too sensitive", or if someone else makes you feel that you are, or if you even have the slightest inkling that someone might be perceiving you that way? Yup, me too!

Especially if you grew up hearing that you're too sensitive, or you need to grow a thicker skin, or you take things too personally, you might have developed a sense of shame about your sensitivity. In this episode, we dive into the experience of feeling shame about our heightened sensitivity and what we can do with that shame when it gets triggered.

To connect with me directly or share your own triggers so we can work through them together, please head over to www.josephinehardman.com or send an email to me@josephinehardman.com

I'd also love to hear if this episode spoke to you!

Thank you for being here, as always.

Music & editing by G. Demers

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Inner Work, a spiritual growth podcast.
0:06.0	I'm your host, Josephine Hartman.
0:08.5	I'm an intuitive healer and certified Akashik Records reader and teacher,
0:13.5	driven by the purpose of helping others become more powerful by reconnecting to the healer within.
0:19.7	To explore my work or connect with me, you can visit josephinehardman.com.
0:24.9	If you feel called to support the podcast, please leave a rating or review on Apple Podcasts.
0:30.8	I so appreciate your presence here, and I'm honored to serve as a guide or companion on your path for a little while. Now, on to the episode.
0:46.2	You're too sensitive. You need to grow a thicker skin. You get emotional too easily. You need to toughen up. Did you hear any of these statements or
0:59.0	similar statements growing up? Yes, I did too. I heard these kinds of words from well-meaning
1:06.4	friends, adults, teachers, generally as a result of them either wanting to protect me or them
1:13.6	feeling uncomfortable with my high degree of sensitivity. Hearing those kinds of words was difficult.
1:21.6	They felt to me, especially because I am a highly sensitive person, they felt like knives, like razor blades,
1:29.1	just cutting into me into my sense of self-worth, self-value, self-confidence.
1:36.3	Combined this with the fact that it didn't feel safe or cool or acceptable to be an introvert
1:42.2	growing up, as a lot of pressure was put on me to socialize more, to get out there, to be an introvert growing up, as a lot of pressure was put on me, to socialize more,
1:46.8	to get out there, to be more outwardly focused, and all of this just created a soup of external
1:53.3	pressures and expectations, and I developed the idea of myself as a weird, alien, abnormal
2:00.4	person, as someone who had to change her inherent
2:04.3	primary qualities to fit in, someone who had to change herself to be accepted and loved.
2:12.8	Is this resonating with you? If so, you might share one of my own triggers, which is feeling shame about
2:20.2	being quote unquote too sensitive. Or even feeling shame when you have the slightest sense, the
2:27.1	slightest inclination that someone else might be perceiving you as being too sensitive.
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