Are you highly sensitive and impacted by art?
- Dr Pranita Rao
- Dec 24, 2025
- 7 min read
Hi, welcome to Expressive Sensitive!
My name is Pranita Rao, and I am here to discuss how art benefits highly sensitive people and sensitive individuals, especially those who feel deeply affected by creativity, emotions, and their surroundings.
Let us first talk about sensitivity and clearly understand what it means.
What Does It Mean to Be a Highly Sensitive Person?
So, what does it mean to be sensitive or a highly sensitive person?
Have you ever looked at a painting and felt that at first it looked absolutely marvelous, but within minutes, different emotions began to rise inside you?
Have you ever visited an art gallery, felt excited at the beginning, and then slowly started feeling emotionally overwhelmed?
Have you ever noticed your mind processing art, colors, brush strokes, stories behind the artwork, and information about the artists, so much so that your head felt full and your emotions felt intensely active?
This is a common experience for highly sensitive people, especially those drawn to art and creativity.
I am a highly sensitive person and an artist, and I understand this experience deeply. Sensitive people perceive the world more intensely because we are more aware of emotions, energy, thoughts, and subtle shifts in our environment.
If you are sensitive or inclined toward being highly sensitive, I want you to know that you are not alone. Feeling deeply is not a weakness, as it is a gift that deserves care, understanding, and emotional regulation.
P.S. - Later in this post, I will explain how I support sensitive people through a structured coaching process.
Why Art Can Feel Overwhelming for Sensitive Individuals?
If you are an artist, you already know that art is a journey. From learning art to practicing it and displaying it, all of it is part of an internal and external process. However, what we often miss is what art does to sensitivity itself.
We live in an overstimulating world. We absorb information, emotions, energy, social media, and comply to work demands constantly. Sensitive individuals absorb more than they realize. When we do not release what we absorb, we overload our nervous system and emotional body.
This can feel like being a balloon filled with too much air, ready to burst. And I have experienced this many times myself.
When we do not set emotional and energetic boundaries, especially if we are deeply compassionate, we begin to tend to other people’s emotions more than our own. This is not sustainable for highly sensitive people.
Although sensitive individuals could get triggered by art, if one understands their true artistic gift, they can use it to manage their sensitivity and manage their emotional, energetic, psychic, and soul gifts. This is why, I encourage sensitive people to practice art, understand their sensitivity, and learn how to set boundaries.
How Art Helps Highly Sensitive People?
I now want to share how art has influenced many artists and sensitive individuals in regulating emotions and processing overwhelm.
In 2022, I discovered that I was highly sensitive. I began educating myself, taking courses, and training as a coach for highly sensitive people. I also learned Angelic Reiki, and today I offer Angelic Reiki sessions for sensitive individuals to support emotional and energetic balance.
Despite learning many techniques and exploring different spiritual paths, I found that art helped me process repressed emotions and trauma in a way nothing else could.
Through art, I communicate more clearly with my intuition, higher self, angels, and guides. This is why I trust art as a grounding and regulating tool for highly sensitive people.
Creativity, Intuition, and the Gifts of Sensitive People
I believe many gifted individuals perceive the world differently through creativity. If you are reading this post, you may already have gifts related to art, intuition, healing gifts, angelic intuitive gifts, empathy, compassion, cognitive gifts, emotional intelligence, or creativity.
You may even use these gifts unconsciously.
One way to recognize this is to reflect on moments of creativity where sudden clarity, realization, or inner knowing appeared. This is often a sign of an intuitive or creative gift.
Many artists throughout history were highly sensitive, including writers, painters, and musicians who processed their sensitivity through creativity. Vincent van Gogh, for example, is often believed to have been highly sensitive.
Why Am I Sharing This With You?
A few years ago, I struggled deeply with emotional and energetic overwhelm. I did not know how to protect my energy or set boundaries. I felt lost, foggy, isolated, and emotionally exhausted.
For most part, when I understood my sensitivity, everything began to start making sense, including my overwhelm, trauma, emotional intensity, and life experiences.
Highly sensitive people are gifted, but when they do not understand their gifts, life can feel demanding and overwhelming.
This is why I coach sensitive and highly sensitive individuals. I help them understand their sensitivity through art, Reiki, and angelic guidance, and I teach them how to regulate emotions, energy, and their inner world.
Working With Me: Coaching for Sensitive People
Hello, I am Pranita Rao. I work with sensitive individuals, highly sensitive people, creatives, healers, and spiritual seekers who want a soft and private space to express themselves and understand their sensitivity without labels, heaviness, or emotional confusion.
There is no spiritual identity required. No artistic credentials required. This is a clear space to think, feel, create, and move forward.
My work combines sensitivity, art, creative expression, emotional clarity, simple structures, energy healing, angelic Reiki, intuitive reading, and guidance.
As for my experience, I have four years of experience working with angelic beings, three years of experience working with art, and I have supported many individuals by holding a grounded, honest, and safe space.
My clients learn how to regulate sensitivity, gain emotional clarity, set energetic boundaries, and make consistent decisions despite internal or external challenges.
Please note that understanding that you are highly sensitive is an important first step, but awareness alone does not create stability. What creates change is learning how to work with your sensitivity in a structured, consistent way.
In my work, I support sensitive and highly sensitive individuals through a simple and grounded framework. First, we identify how your sensitivity shows up emotionally, creatively, and energetically in daily life. Second, we build emotional clarity and regulation so you are no longer absorbing what does not belong to you. Third, we learn about your unique creative gifts, and create sustainable boundaries, creative practices, and decision-making structures that support your nervous system rather than overwhelm it.
This approach helps sensitive people move from constant emotional processing to emotional steadiness, from confusion to clarity, and from self-neglect to self-trust. The intention is not to change who you are, but to help your sensitivity function as a strength rather than a source of exhaustion.
This work is designed for individuals who are ready to move beyond learning and into implementation. Sensitive people often consume a lot of information but delay applying it. My role is to provide a steady, structured space where insight turns into change.
If you are at a stage where you are no longer seeking validation, but seeking regulation, direction, and results, this work may be aligned for you.
Book a Free Clarity Call
If you resonate with my message and content, I invite you to book a free 30-minute clarity call with me. We will discuss where you are, what you need, and whether my 12-week coaching program is aligned for you. Please note, my hourly fee is 200$, and the fee for my 12-week program is 1800$.
Thank you for being here. If this blog post helped you, please like, share, and subscribe to my blog. Your support helps this work reach sensitive people around the world.
Please leave a comment if any part of this resonated with you, as I would love to engage with you.
You are also welcome to explore my other blog posts to learn more about sensitivity, creativity, emotional regulation, and intuitive growth.
If learning about sensitivity feels challenging or triggering, that is understandable. When I first learned about my sensitivity, I felt overwhelmed by realizations, fears, and expectations. Embracing our gifts takes energy, patience, and self-compassion. My intention over the past three years has been to make this journey lighter, clearer, and more supportive for sensitive souls. So, please stay put and keep investing in your growth.
Thank you for reading, and I appreciate your presence.
Until next time!
-3, 2, 1, Cheers,
Pranita
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