Nourishing Soul Vitality When the World Wants You Numb
“I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
You’re Invited — A Soft Place to Land — Sensitive Sisterhood Session
Hello beautiful people, thank you for being here to receive my musings.
My dear friend Andy, aka the
invited me to lead a nourishing online circle for highly sensitive women, created for and by women.Read the details and enjoy an initiation to the Sensitive Sisterhood gatherings.
Sensitivity is not something to “get over.” It’s a strength to be honed—a moonlit trail leading you back to your soul home. It is an intelligent perception of feeling, not a flaw but a frequency.
Your capacity to feel deeply, to attune to nuance, to sense what others miss is often mistaken for weakness, or medicated as pathology. Why? The short answer, we live in a grind culture that rewards productivity, speed, and a tough upper lip.
But in truth, sensitivity is a superpower.
One of my twins is legally blind. She feels her way through life. She reads the room before a word is spoken. She notices the tension behind a smile, the grief beneath a joke. Now a maturing adult, she travels with me to facilitate plant healing retreats. I call her my emotional assistant. She’s known for giving the best hugs.
A while ago, we gathered in the Earth Temple for an ayahuasca ceremony. It was darker than usual—no moonlight. Midway through the ceremony, she leaned in and whispered,
“Mom, the man over there needs me.”
“Go to him,” I said. “Trust your feeling.”
She crawled across the floor in the dark, held the man’s hand in hers, and sat quietly beside him as he wept for a long time.
Later, the man said, “How did she know to come? She was exactly what I needed.”
Feeling perceives what the physical senses cannot. Sensitivity is a powerful presence—one that brings tender kindness to what is afraid, exiled, alone, ruptured, or hurting. It is the healing balm desperately needed in a world on fire.
The tender ones carry thunder in their bones and rivers in their eyes. Do not mistake them for weak or blind.
You’re Invited — A Soft Place to Land — Sensitive Sisterhood Session
When: Sunday, 6 April
10 am PST | 1 pm EST | 6 pm UK | 7 pm SAST (session is 75 minutes)
JOIN: Online (Zoom – link HERE) - add to your Calendar NOW
I’m honored to join Andy and all of you. I’ll guide a gentle session to explore how we can attune to the subtle intelligence of our sensitivity and anchor our inner stillness amidst the world's noise and grind. Together, we’ll reflect on what it means to live a life that honors the pace of our nervous systems and hearts — with presence, kindness, and grace.
This is more than a talk — it’s a remembering — a direct path to coming home to your soul. We receive the exact medicine we need when we gather with sensitive women. We realize we are not alone in the immensity of our feelings.
If you long for a community that understands your tenderness and honors your depth, I invite you to join us.
BRING: A candle
✴️ Resources to Claim Your Sensitive Soul from Grind Culture
1. Name it.
Know you're sensitive—not broken. Sensitivity is perception, not pathology.
2. Ground daily — kiss the grind goodbye.
Your body is your boundary. Practices like walking barefoot, slow breathing, or resting your hand over your heart. Remind your system: I am safe. I can go slow. I can feel my way.
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence. It is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
— Audre Lorde
3. Use the pause.
Before reacting, pause. Ask: Is this mine to feel?
This creates a moment of agency in emotional storms.
4. Say no with grace.
“No” is a sacred word. Use it as a way to say yes to your well-being.
“You have to learn to get up from the table when love is no longer being served.”
— Nina Simone
5. Create energy boundaries.
Imagine a soft, porous field around you—like gossamer or gold thread. Let in what nourishes. Let go of what drains.
6. Nourish yourself first.
Prioritize rest, solitude, art, water, beauty. Sensitives need more soul food, not less.
“There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.”
— Hannah Gadsby
7. Don’t shrink—select.
You don’t need to get smaller. You need to choose where your light goes. But without grounding, sensitivity can become overwhelming, leading to burnout, people-pleasing, or numbing. The antidote isn’t self-abandonment. It’s intentional self-care. Boundaries are the sacred edges that let us remain soft without being swallowed.
“I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.”
— Nayyirah Waheed
I look forward to pausing with you at our online sisterhood sanctuary. 🌙
Join Us: Sunday, 6 April
10 am PST | 1 pm EST | 6 pm UK | 7 pm SAST (session is 75 minutes)
🔥 Online (Zoom – link HERE) — add to your Calendar Reminders.
Remember, your sensitivity is not a flaw. Let’s reclaim sensitivity as soul strength.
✨ What has your sensitivity helped you see, feel, or know that others might miss?
We’d love to celebrate you.
In Kindness,
Prajna O’Hara, the salty crone
Learn more about my work at PrajnaOhara.com
🌙 Celebrate the gentle strength of women like my mother, Camille (in the essay below).
Your likes, comments, and shares are a song for me. Thank you! 💜
Leaving to Return, A Woman’s Way Home
@Prajna O'Hara listening to your Sensitive Sisterhood video right now, and I wanted you to know that you have the most soothing voice. Just listening to you is calming to my nervous system. Also: I have a background in psychology and theology, too. :)
As an identifying HSP, I appreciate this so much. I wish I could attend. Next time. 💗