Have You Ever Been Told You’re “Too Sensitive”?
Maybe you’ve heard it all your life:
“You’re too emotional.”
“You overreact.”
“You need to calm down.”
Over time, those words can make you shrink yourself, apologizing for your feelings, doubting your reactions, and wondering if something is wrong with you.
If that sounds familiar, I want you to know this: “You are not broken. You are emotionally alive.”
The Gift and Weight of Emotional Intensity
Many women I work with describe their emotions as “too much.” They notice every detail, feel other people’s moods deeply, and care intensely, even when it’s exhausting. This sensitivity isn’t weakness. It’s often a sign of a highly attuned nervous system, one that learned to stay alert and responsive, often because of trauma, inconsistent caregiving, or high emotional demand in early relationships.You didn’t become emotional for no reason. Your body learned to protect you by staying tuned in.
Why Emotions Can Feel Overwhelming
From a trauma-informed and Internal Family Systems (IFS) perspective, those emotional surges are often parts of you trying to communicate pain that was never fully seen or soothed. A younger part might fear rejection. Another part might carry shame for being “too much.” When life touches those old wounds, your system can flood with emotion, not to sabotage you, but to say:
“Something inside me still needs care.”
How CBT and IFS Can Help You Reconnect With Your Emotions
Using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), we gently explore the thought patterns that add fuel to emotional intensity, like “If I get upset, people will leave,” or “I have to hold it all together.” Alongside CBT, IFS therapy helps you develop compassion for the inner parts that carry those fears. Instead of fighting your emotions, you learn to stay present with them, building trust and self-acceptance from within.
Healing doesn’t mean feeling less. It means feeling safely, with understanding, curiosity, and compassion.
You Were Never Too Much — You Were Just Never Given Enough Room
You don’t need to quiet your emotions to be loved or accepted. What you need is space to let them exist without shame. Through trauma-informed counselling for women, you can learn to regulate your emotions, listen to your needs, and reconnect with your true self, the one who has always been there beneath the overwhelm. Your emotions are not the problem. The problem was being taught to silence them.
Begin Healing From Emotional Overwhelm
If you’re tired of feeling misunderstood or like your emotions are “too big,” therapy can help you reconnect with yourself in a new way. Together, we’ll create a safe, compassionate space to explore your emotions through a trauma-informed lens, using CBT and IFS to help you find balance, peace, and confidence in who you are.You deserve to take up emotional space.
You are not “too much.” You are enough.
Maria Crawford
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