What if the very thing you've been told is your weakness—your sensitivity, your big feelings, your tendency to feel everything deeply—is actually your greatest strength?

In this episode, Hélène gets raw about what no one tells you when you start doing the inner work: you will become more sensitive. You will feel more. And that's not a bug; it's a feature.

She explores why we build walls around our emotions, how anger often protects us from feeling hurt and vulnerability, and why the depth to which you're willing to feel the hard emotions directly determines the height to which you can experience joy, pleasure, and aliveness.

You'll learn:

• Why personal growth makes you more sensitive (and why that's actually the goal)
• How to feel your feelings without letting them run your life
• The difference between experiencing emotion and acting on it
• Why anger and sadness aren't opposites—numbness is
• The hermit crab to octopus transformation: leaving your protective shell to embrace your flexibility
• How the depth of your pain unlocks the height of your pleasure

This episode is for anyone who's ever been called "too sensitive," who's numbed themselves to survive, or who's wondering if feeling everything so deeply is worth it. Spoiler: It is. Because the alternative to feeling is death.

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Ready to dive deeper into your feelings with support?

Hélène's one-on-one program The Reclamation helps you explore the full range of your emotions and reclaim the parts of yourself you've given away. Her group program The Self-Expression Academy (SEA) teaches you to rebuild capacity for joy and embrace your octopus nature—flexible, adaptive, and unapologetically alive.

Interested in working together or have questions? Reach out at hello@helenecanhelp.com or DM Hélène on Instagram at @helenecanhelp.

Keywords

highly sensitive person, emotional intelligence, feeling your feelings, personal growth, vulnerability, anger management, somatic healing, inner work, nervous system regulation, emotional processing, spiritual bypassing, self-awareness, trauma healing, reclaiming emotions, depth of feeling, numbness vs aliveness, hermit crab analogy, octopus metaphor, pain and pleasure, emotional range, personal development, therapy, life coaching, embodiment