I interviewed a music therapist in Canada and took her photo on 8//2/15.
Do you think that being sensitive is a strength or a weakness?
I feel like saying that it depends on the context of a person’s life. If they have support for being sensitive then it can be a great strength.
If they don’t have support for it, it can work again them and weaken them. So I really think it depends on the environment.
I’m a therapist and I have had clients who have had a really tough time because they are super sensitive. They haven’t grown up in environments where people understood them and have not supported them in the way they needed to be so they had to struggle a lot as an adult.
I think conversely there are people who are sensitive and they get the support and they are fine. I grew up as a very sensitive person and I did not have much support as a child but I have had a lot of support as an adult.
How has being sensitive been a strength for you?
I don’t think I could be a therapist without it . I don’t think I could be a musician without it. I think it has so much to do with who I am at my core, so I cant imagine living without it now .
It made me who I am.
sensitive strength 
Being sensitive is both a strength and a weakness. If we allow ourselves to feel, and feel deeply, and express those feelings honestly to ourselves and others, there is no doubt we are more authentically human, with the option of connecting to others who are also authentically human. There is also the possibility that others, less sensitive perhaps, could exploit our openness and sensitivity to damage us. The essential
learning for those of us who are “sensitive” is to be able to distinguish between others who would resonate with our sensitivity, and those who would exploit it.