Being Sensitive in a Loud World

I’ve always been sensitive.

To sounds, to shifts in the room, to people’s energy

even when they said everything was “fine.”I just knew.

As a child, I’d notice the smallest changes. A flicker in someone’s voice. The way the light changed in a room. The unspoken tension in the air. I couldn’t explain how

I just felt it.

My family saw it in me, especially my little sister. She used to say, “You notice things other people don’t.”

At times, my sensitivity made me feel like I was “too much.” Too emotional. Too aware. But over time, I came to realize it wasn’t a weakness.

It was my gift.

I wasn’t just sensing things

I was tuning in.

To frequencies.

To emotions.

To vibrations beyond words.

It’s what led me to sound.

Because sound speaks the language of sensitivity. It doesn’t need explanation. It moves through the body like a wave and tells the truth our words sometimes can’t.

Sound doesn’t ask us to be logical

it asks us to feel.

Now, in my work with sound healing, I finally feel at home in this sensitivity. I use it as a guide, as a tool, as a sacred offering. When someone walks into my studio, I listen beyond what they say. I feel the spaces they don’t even realize need softening. And through sound, we begin the gentle work of rebalancing. Releasing. Remembering.

If you’ve ever felt like your sensitivity is “too much,” I invite you to see it differently.It might just be your superpower.Your tuning fork.Your medicine.

in sound, in silence, in soul ∞ Nikki | Founder of Sōna