Stop Saying 'You're Too Sensitive'! It's Hurting You!

Oh my gosh, you're so— you're too much. Your emotions, you're so sensitive. And I'll be honest, I had that told to me a lot, is that you're so sensitive. In fact, when I even— and I don't know that my dad and mom remember this, but it's okay if they don't. When I was younger and I said I wanted to be a social worker, my dad told me, there's no way you could be a social worker. You're too sensitive. And I thought, oh, maybe I can't. And so I never pursued it. I never did because I thought I couldn't do it. And so do you see how even those little bits and pieces get intertwined in our life and it can stop us from doing the things that we were probably meant to do or stop us from being who we really are or even taking that step forward out of, out of that comfort zone to try it and see? So there's a lot of things that it affects. But when we're told, you're so sensitive, you know, that shuts people down.