Your Emotions Are Calling: From "Too Much" to Superpower

Story 21/365/2025

Have you ever been told you're "too emotional" or "too sensitive" for your own good? 

What if those very qualities that others have criticized are actually your greatest superpowers, waiting to be reclaimed and honored?

This week, we gather Around the Fire to explore Elizabeth's transformative journey from emotional suppression to emotional mastery.

Read the highlights of Elizabeth's Story below

For Elizabeth Payne, an authentically expressive woman who helps others reclaim their emotional wisdom, life wasn't always a celebration of feelings. While she now teaches that emotions are divine guidance systems, she spent the first 30 years of her life suppressing, judging, and running from the very sensitivity that would become her greatest gift.

Her transformation reveals that sometimes what the world calls "too much" is actually exactly enough—enough authenticity, enough depth, enough truth to help others remember their own emotional superpowers. The very traits that others criticized would become her medicine and her mission.

It wasn't until a crucial turning point taught her that her emotions weren't her weakness, but her superpower, that everything began to shift.

The Labeling Begins

"I've been labeled as 'overly emotional' my entire life. Too sensitive. Too deep. Too happy. Too much fun. Too intense. Too loud."

From earliest childhood, Elizabeth's natural emotional expressiveness was met with discomfort from the adults around her. Well-meaning caregivers who weren't comfortable with their own emotions couldn't hold space for Elizabeth's big feelings. The message was clear: emotional expression was unsafe and unacceptable.

Picture the scene many parents know well—a toddler having a tantrum in public while everyone around runs in the opposite direction. The parent is mortified, the child learns that their natural emotional expression makes others uncomfortable, and slowly, systematically, they begin to unplug from their power.

"Over time, the child learns to repress and stuff their emotions. Their natural, normal emotional expression begins to feel unsafe and unaccepted, and they unplug from their power." Elizabeth was learning that her authentic self was somehow wrong.

The Survival Strategy

Growing up in what Elizabeth describes as "a battle ground of sorts" where emotional responsibility wasn't modeled, she had no roadmap for handling her intense feelings. Her survival strategy became disconnection: "To survive, I bulldozed over them, I stuffed them into my backpack, I dumped them on to other people, I hated them, I judged them, I was afraid of them, I ran from them."

For decades, Elizabeth's emotions piled up like unexpressed letters in a mailbox. The energy she repressed didn't disappear—it expressed itself through her body, creating physical symptoms that demanded attention. Her natural emotional intelligence was being turned against itself.

The irony was profound: the very sensitivity that could have been her greatest strength was being systematically dismantled by a world that feared authentic emotional expression.

The Crisis Point

At 30, Elizabeth found herself at a crossroads that would determine whether she stayed "earthside." The decades of emotional suppression had taken their toll, and her body was delivering an ultimatum: learn to feel or face the consequences.

"That year was the turning point. A great awakening in every sense of the word. For the first time in my life, I learned to FEEL. To honor my emotions. To love them and to listen to them. That year, I plugged into my power." This wasn't just about accepting emotions—it was about recognizing them as sophisticated guidance systems that had been trying to serve her all along.

The choice was stark: continue the exhausting work of emotional suppression or finally learn to dance with the very feelings she'd been running from her entire life.

The Revolutionary Reframe

Through her conscious healing journey, Elizabeth discovered truths that completely transformed her relationship with feelings:

"Emotions are energy in motion. Key word? MOTION. Movement, flow. Emotions are meant to move through you."

Instead of stuffing, shaming, or judging emotions, Elizabeth learned to listen, honor, learn from, and most importantly, let them move. She discovered that when you resist or push against emotion, it pushes back and grows bigger, heavier, denser.

"There is no such thing as 'too much.' It has helped me to remember that their 'too much' assessment of me comes from their backpack and personal journey." The problem wasn't her emotional intensity—the problem was living in a world that had forgotten how to honor authentic feeling.

The Six Life-Changing Principles

After a decade of consciously riding the roller coaster of emotions, Elizabeth crystallized her discoveries into six transformative principles: Your emotions will make some people uncomfortable—create boundaries that honor your energy. Emotions are energy in motion—they're meant to flow through you, not be buried within you.

There is no such thing as "too much"—don't let others unplug you from your power. It is safe to have emotions—these six words changed everything. Your emotions are your superpower—they're your personal thermostat and divine dialogue.

Most humans are unknowingly unplugged from their power—your emotional authenticity is a gift to the world. These weren't just concepts to Elizabeth; they were lived truths that had transformed her entire existence.

What Might Your Emotional "Too Much" Reveal?

Looking at your own relationship with feelings, where have you been told you're "too much"? What if those very qualities others have criticized contain your greatest gifts? How might your emotional sensitivity be exactly what the world needs more of, not less?

"Your emotions are your superpower. Your relationship with your emotions will not change overnight, but there will be a turning point. A moment in time when you decide to plug back into your power." The question isn't whether you're too emotional—the question is whether you're ready to reclaim your emotional wisdom.

Sometimes the world needs people who feel deeply, love fiercely, and express authentically. Sometimes being "too much" is actually being exactly enough.

Join Us to Reclaim Your Emotional Superpowers

Join us at our next "Around the Fire" Monday session with Elizabeth Payne, where she'll guide us through her framework for transforming emotional suppression into emotional mastery. Together, we'll explore how to honor our feelings as divine messengers rather than problems to be solved.

As Elizabeth reminds us: "You are a divine spiritual being having a 3D human experience and your emotions are your SUPERPOWER."

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Andrea