Why Being Sensitive Is A Superpower (Inspired by My Conversation with Karen Blaine)

For years, I was told I needed to toughen up.

I felt everything. Every shift in a room, every unspoken word, every emotion. And somewhere along the way, I learned that was “too much.”

In this solo episode, I’m sharing a powerful conversation I had with Karen Blaine, a retired hypnotherapist and author who works with empaths and highly sensitive women. Due to audio issues, I wasn’t able to release the full interview, but the message was too important not to share.

We talk about what it really means to be sensitive in today’s world, why empathy isn’t a weakness, and how your ability to feel deeply is actually a form of awareness, not something to fix.

If you’ve ever been told you’re too sensitive… if you pick up on energy, emotions, and what’s not being said… this conversation will hit home.

We also explore how this shows up through the lens of Human Design, including Reflectors and undefined solar plexus centers, and why what you feel in your body is valuable information you’re meant to trust.

In This Episode:

• What it really means to be an empath or highly sensitive person
• Why sensitivity and emotional awareness are not weaknesses
• How to trust what you feel (instead of overriding it)
• The role of empathy in today’s world
• Human Design insights: Reflectors & undefined solar plexus
• Learning how to feel without carrying everything

Connect with Karen Blaine:

Website: https://eternalempath.com

Books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Karen-Blaine/author/B0B8XYZ123

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eternalempath

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Transcript

 Why Being Sensitive Is Your Superpower (Inspired by My Conversation with Karen Blaine)

A Beautifull Fix

I was told for a long time that I needed to toughen up. 

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 I was told for a long time that I needed to toughen up. I wonder if you can relate to this or maybe you know someone like this, because I was that kid. I cried easily. I felt everything. And when I mean everything, I mean everything. And I was also the kid being told to get thicker skin to not let things affect me so much.

I think I may have shared this before my father, he was my superhero and he worried about me all the time. He was like, Tracy, you have to thicken your skin. You have to toughen up or the world's just gonna chew you up and spit you out.

And I can remember as a child watching National Geographic, I used to love that show 'cause I love animals and I couldn't get.

Past two minutes of it, because you would be watching an amazing gazelle and looking at how beautiful these creatures are. And then shortly afterwards you would see the lion, um, stalking them. And I, I couldn't handle it. So any anywho, um, I just. Had to learn how to adjust to be in this world because I felt that was part of being an adult and, um, what you kind of had to do.

And that my way of being was just wrong. On one hand you're experiencing something that's very real in your body, and then on the other hand, you're being told it's too much. So you start questioning it and you start questioning yourself.

So this episode, it's going to be a little different because I had a conversation recently with Karen Blaine. She's a retired hypnotherapist and an author who has written nine books on everything from self-love and empowerment to grounding gratitude, and. The healing power of the subconscious mind. And she works with and supports sensitive and intuitive women.

Unfortunately, we had some audio issues during that recording and I tried my best to edit it down, but it just, it wasn't working, so I wasn't able to share the full interview. But the topic and what we talked about, it just feels too important not to share. So I wanna bring you into it as best I can. We were talking about being an empath, being highly sensitive, and she was describing what that looks like for her, walking into a room and immediately feeling what's going on with people, picking up on emotions, energy tone, and she mentioned that for a long time.

She saw it as something negative, something she had to deal with, and I understood exactly what she meant. Because this has been the undercurrent of my life being sensitive and trying to be anything but, and it didn't stop when I got older. It showed up in my career. You know, being able to read rooms, sensing dynamics, or just sometimes just picking up on what wasn't being said and at times questioning myself because of it.

Thinking I was overthinking or reading too much into things, but when I really look at it now, I see something different. Being able to read a room, picking up on what someone isn't saying or feeling when there's just a shift, even if nothing's being said out loud, that's not nothing. That's information and, and one of the things.

Um, that Karen mentioned was that energy speaks before we do. And I say this all the time in my human design sessions. It's true. So I was like, yes, it's exactly it. You feel it before anything is said. It walks into the room before you do it. Enters the conversation before you do. And if you're someone who's listening to this and who feels that, I mean, you, you get it.

You know what I'm talking about. You're, you're tuned in. 

And I think about women who are wired like this. You know, like me, like Karen Empaths, highly sensitive people or hell just people that have feelings or my reflector friends in human design. If you are reflector energy type, you're taking in everything around you. You're feeling everything. You're sampling people, your environments.

You're, you're taking that in and amplifying what you're feeling. Or if you have an undefined solar plexus, you're taking in emotional energy from other people and amplifying it as well. You feel it. That's real. That's not in your head.

And I think this is part of why human design resonated with me so much when I found it. Just understanding that my emotions, what I feel in my body, they're not random. They're these beautiful indicators. They're information that I'm meant to pay attention to.

You are meant to pay attention to them. Emotions are energy in motion. And you know, learning this, it was just incredibly freeing for me because for a long time the message was to just shut all of that down, to not be affected, to toughen up. But I also wanna say this, when I think about this topic, and one of the reasons I wanted to make sure that we.

Shared. This is because we are living in a time where empathy has been, weaponized, and that makes absolutely no sense to me. Being kind, caring about other people, feeling something for someone else, even if it doesn't directly impact you guys. That should not be controversial. And you know, I've noticed that I've held myself back from talking about certain things because I don't want to add to the noise out there.

I don't want to be polarizing. I want people to be able to escape that when they tune into a beautiful fix. But you know, if being kind and caring about other people. Is triggering to you, then I'm not your girl and I'm not, I'm not gonna make any apologies for that. I trust my people will find me. I'm done making myself wrong.

I'm done worrying about offending everyone. I am me. And that's always been enough. And my hope is that you feel the same way about yourself. So yes. We're gonna keep stretching the conversations on this show. We're going to explore things because why not? Curiosity is a beautiful thing, but coming back to this topic, there's nothing wrong with being able to feel the work here is learning how to feel something without losing yourself in it.

Or how to care without carrying everything. So if this is you or you're thinking of someone in your life who moves through the world in this way, there's nothing here that needs to be fixed. There is something to appreciate. This week, I invite you to just pay attention to how you move through your day, the rooms you walk into, the people you interact with, what you pick up on before anything is said.

And instead of brushing it off, just let it be there. And Karen, if you're listening, thank you so much for this beautiful conversation. I'm really grateful for it. And until next time, keep getting high on life one beautiful fix at a time.

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