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I’ve always been that girl with big feelings, who was constantly being told to “stop being so sensitive”.

 

I never quite understood how to shut down that part of myself; the one that over-thought and over-felt. And for the longest time, I carried a deep shame about it.

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I was frequently chided for feeling and showing too-much emotion and was often told that I wouldn’t “make it” in this world if I continued to be so…delicate. As a child, I understood this to mean that if I was always being told to stop feeling so emotional in order to exist in this world, that meant there was no one else feeling all these big feelings like me. Like there was something wrong with me.

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Oh, what a mistake that was!

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But, I didn’t know that yet. And so, I shut away those emotional parts of myself thinking that I was the odd one, that I was all alone in feeling like this.

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As I grew older, and met more people through life’s journey, it became more and more apparent that this ability to feel intense emotions wasn’t a weakness; but rather a superpower. One that I shared with so many others on this planet.

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Earlier I used to feel alone. But now I know that I’m not the only one who buried her big feelings to present a more sombre facade to the world. So many of us walk around holding back what we really feel, believing that we are the strange ones.

 

To anyone else feeling this way, I can say with all certainty now – you’re not alone either.

 

I decided to start writing this blog for all of us who have been told we feel or think too much. For all those of us who have ever felt embarrassed about their emotions. But most importantly, I want to write this for that younger version of me, still locked away somewhere in a deep corner of my mind, feeling shame about her feelings.

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So, join me, if you will, as I share thoughts, hold space and invite conversations about all those BIG (often embarrassing) feelings we all have. This is a little corner of the internet where I explore feelings, because I feel them. Where I write about feelings because I want to understand them. And where I share about feelings, because we all have them. And there’s nothing to be ashamed about that.

 

Love, and lots of feelings!

 

Neha Paranjpe