10/26/2026
You were never too much.
I say this to clients all the time, and honestly, I needed to hear it for a long time too.
As a highly sensitive person, I grew up feeling everything. And somewhere along the way, I picked up the message that I was “too sensitive,” “too emotional,” or “dramatic.” So I did what so many of us do. I got really good at reading the room, anticipating what everyone needed, and being hypervigilant about how I showed myself to the world.
I see this so often in my work. People who are easy to be around, but hard to actually know. Not because they’re guarded, but because they learned that shrinking was the safest way to stay connected.
There was a time that it made sense.
But the parts of you that got labeled “too much” are usually the parts that make you you. Your depth. Your intuition. The way you care. They never needed to be fixed. They needed somewhere safe to be.
Healing isn’t about becoming less. It’s about finding relationships where all of you is welcome, and slowly unlearning the habit of abandoning yourself to keep the peace.
Were you ever told you were “too much”? I’d love to hear what that looked like for you. Let’s talk about it in the comments
