"My Hidden Strengths

It's a topic that comes up for me at least once a day, whether I'm facing the world or with people I encounter and identify as being from the same village. I feel that transitioning from being a sensitive child to a sensitive adult is a subject that never really leaves my mind.

I remember being afraid to walk down the street as a child because I felt like everyone was staring at me. Malls were an overwhelming experience, and in general, navigating social dynamics filled with people and noise was not easy for me.

Over the years, I've turned this sensitivity into my hidden strength. It might sound exaggerated, but I truly feel this way. I liken it to the absolute hearing in musicians who hear more and more layers, noisy sounds, connections, inaccuracies, and more within the sound itself. It's like a language of its own.

When you're born with this ability to speak this language, but you don't use it or develop it enough, it's frustrating. Very, very frustrating.

For me, my work has become the perfect place to employ this radar of sensitivity, to hear more and more sounds beyond what's being said. Over the years, without even realizing, I started developing a secret specialization.

Sensitive children have come to me. Some more sensitive, some less, but they've all received this gift that only weighs on them more and more, each according to their age and the intensity of their sensitivity. I've taught them all that it's a gift, that these are my hidden strengths and they can also be theirs.

Because when everyone talks about certain things, we sensitive ones hear and absorb so much information that if we're not aware of it and don't know when to listen and when to close off, it becomes an experience of inundation that becomes more and more burdensome, making life harder.

Sensitive children hear and feel everything. What happens in the classroom, what happens at home, what you're going through in your relationship and your inner journey. Even if things aren't happening in their presence. It's enough that it's around the people who matter to them, and their antennas are active. They pick up. And they pick up without realizing they're picking up, far beyond their capacity to comprehend.

There's no doubt that this is a topic I can talk about more and more... and I will expand further. I promise.