Sometimes I Wonder if I’m From Another Planet
Ever get the feeling that you don’t quite belong here? Not just in a social sense, but deep in your bones, like you accidentally landed on the wrong planet? Yeah… me too.
Being a Sensitive Soul is Like Having Every Dial on the Emotional Radio Turned Up to Max
Being a sensitive soul means you feel joy and awe and wonder … and heartbreak, anxiety, frustration, and every awkward, messy feeling in between all at once. It’s exhilarating and exhausting. You might call it “feeling too much,” and you’d be right. Some days it’s like every emotion decided to show up at once and throw a surprise party in your nervous system. And feeling all of this, while the rest of the world seems to be going about their lives as if everything is normal can make you start to wonder if you straigh-up are not from here because clearly, you experience things very differently.
I get it. And sometimes, I wonder if I’ve lived too many lifetimes and this has what has made me such an open channel (which I am grateful to have learned tools to help). Maybe I’m an old soul, or maybe I just picked the wrong corner of the universe. Maybe my soul-fam is still out there, orbiting some other galaxy, and I just haven’t bumped into them yet. And until I do… well, it’s weird here. Really weird.
Feeling Everything So Intensely Teaches You Empathy, Intuition, and a Kind of Quiet Wisdom
There’s a strange kind of magic in being out of sync. Feeling everything so intensely opens your heart in ways most people can’t even imagine, yet it can feel really overwhelming and isolating. It gives you an ear for subtlety, a radar for truth, and a softness that holds space for other people’s messy. And yes, it can be lonely and sad when it seems like no one else gets it the way you do. But it also makes you a lighthouse, sometimes flickering, sometimes bright, always there.
After decades of doing this work, I can tell you one thing for sure: you/we are not alone. I’ve met so many people who carry the same ache and the same wonder. When we sit together and muse about the possibility of living on a cooler planet, or a kinder universe where things feel easier there is often a visible sigh of relief. It sounds a little sci-fi to say out loud, but at a soul level that idea is deeply soothing for many. There’s comfort in imagining a place where the loudness softens and the heart gets a longer, gentler breath.
Is That Spiritual Bypassing, Or a Higher Knowing That Calms Every Cell?
I hear the question before you even ask it: “Isn’t wishing for a gentler universe spiritual bypassing – avoiding reality?” It can be, if it’s used to skip feeling hard things here and now. But there’s another way to hold it. For many of us, that imaginative musing is not an escape. It’s a balm. It’s a higher knowing that whispers, “There is more than this; you brought wisdom with you.” It can calm every cell, not because it denies reality, but because it remembers that our soul’s story is vast and tender and not limited to any one moment of discomfort.
So yes: stay grounded. Feel the feelings. Do the messy work. And let that softer knowing be an act of self-care, not avoidance, a tiny acknowledgement that soothes your nervous system and reminds you there’s a larger story at play.
One Day, You’ll Find Your People, and This Place Will Finally Feel a Little More Like Home
Until then, be curious about your orbit. Keep exploring your inner cosmos. Laugh at your quirks. Cry when you need to. And know that every strange, big feeling you carry is part of your map back to your people.
Looking for a Cosmic Crew?
If you’re craving a space to embrace your sensitivity, explore the old-soul wisdom you carry, and maybe even meet some fellow “aliens,” 😉 WooVersity has been created with you in mind. After decades of teaching and holding space for sensitive, intuitive people, I’ve built programs that help you:
- calm and regulate a busy nervous system,
- make sense of the deep knowing you arrived with, and
- connect with others who breathe the same strange, beautiful air.
No fluff. No pressure to “be fixed.” Just real skills, real community, and the relief of being seen. Come orbit with us, you might find tools that soothe every cell, teachers who get you, and yes, a few other aliens who feel like home.
In Love + Curiosity,
Stacia
