Hi friend,
Healing doesn’t take away your sensitivity. It deepens your acceptance of it.
If you’ve ever wondered why, even after all the work you’ve done, you still feel so much...it’s because your sensitivity is not a flaw to fix. It’s your gift. It’s what allows you to touch the world with tenderness, to create, to serve, to love in ways only you can.
When we reject or deny our feelings, those parts of us harden and retreat. But when we welcome our emotions and give them space to move—through our bodies, our art, our voice—they transform into medicine. Your medicine.
As you walk your path of healing, let your heart soften in self-compassion. Trust that you can go to the depths and return with wisdom. And remember: you are not here to numb your sensitivity, but to let it guide you into the fullness of who you are.
You are the medicine.
Inside this week’s newsletter, you’ll find:
🎙️ Podcast: How to Self-Soothe Your Anxiety
I had the honor of joining Jillian Turecki on her Jillian On Love podcast. In our conversation, I share about conscious relationships, healing attachment wounds, and nervous system regulation.
🌑 Virgo New Moon Solar Eclipse Report
On September 21, 2025, we’ll experience a Solar Eclipse at the final degree of Virgo — a powerful cosmic checkpoint that asks us to simplify, release perfectionism, and refine the patterns that truly sustain us.
🧘♀️ Embodiment Practice: Honoring Your Sensitivity as Medicine A guided embodiment practice to soften into your sensitivity, shine light on the tender parts of yourself, and trust the wisdom that rises from within.
🎙️Latest Podcast Interview on Build with Jillian Turecki:
🌿 This Weeks Reflection:
Don't expect healing to sever you from your sensitivity. Expect it to bring you into deeper acceptance of who you are. Your capacity to feel is medicine for the world.
✨ Practice for the Week: Honoring Your Sensitivity as Medicine
1. Arrive and Ground
Find a comfortable seat or lie down.
Place one hand on your heart and the other on your belly.
Close your eyes and take a few slow breaths, letting your body know it’s safe to soften.
2. Connect with Sensation
Begin by noticing the quality of your sensitivity in this moment.
Ask gently: What am I feeling right now? Allow the sensations to be there, without labeling them good or bad.
Breathe into what you notice, as if each breath creates more room inside of you.
3. Shine the Light Within
Visualize a warm light glowing at the center of your chest.
With each inhale, imagine the light growing brighter.
With each exhale, let that light touch the hidden or tender parts of yourself that are ready to be seen.
4. Express Through the Body
Let your body move in any small way it wants: swaying, rocking, stretching.
If words want to come, whisper them softly. If sound arises, allow it.
Trust that whatever emerges is a form of medicine.
5. Rest in Gentleness
Place both hands over your heart.
Whisper silently or aloud: I honor my sensitivity. I trust my capacity to feel.
Stay here for a few breaths, letting these words land in your body.
6. Close with Integration
When you feel ready, open your eyes.
Take a moment to journal or simply notice how your body feels now compared to when you began.
Additional Journaling Prompts
What does it mean to me that my sensitivity is a gift?
Where in my life have I felt pressure to deny or hide my emotions and sensations?
How do I experience my capacity to feel as medicine for myself and for others?
What parts of me are asking to be met with light and compassion right now?
When I imagine expressing the truth of what I feel, through my body, my art, or my service, what comes alive in me?
How can I bring more gentleness and self-compassion into my daily rhythm?
What wisdom do I sense lives in the depths of my being, waiting for me to trust it?
Let the light within you shine upon the parts of yourself that are ready to awaken.
Let your heart speak through gentleness and self-compassion.
Trust your capacity to go to the depths and return with wisdom.
May your tenderness guide you home to yourself.
Love,
Shay
P.S. I’d love to know what landed for you this week. Hit reply and share a moment, a feeling or even a line that spoke to you