Highly Sensitive Person
Highly Sensitive Person
How to thrive when the world overwhelms you
Are you a highly sensitive person? Do you have a keen imagination and vivid dreams? Is time alone each day as essential to you as food and water? Are you “too shy” or “too sensitive” according to others? Do noise and confusion quickly overwhelm you? If your answers are yes, you may be a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP).
Most of us feel overstimulated every once in a while, but for the highly sensitive person, it is a way of life. In the book, Dr. Aron, shows you how to identify this trait in yourself and make the most of it in everyday situations. Drawing on her many years of research and hundreds of interviews, she shows you how to better understand yourself and your trait to create a fuller richer life.
In this book, you will discover:
- Self-assessment tests to help you identify your particular sensitivities
- Ways to reframe your past experiences in a positive light and gain greater self-esteem in the process
- Insight into how high sensitivity affects both work and personal relationships
- Tips on how to deal with overarousal
- Information on medications and when to seek help
- Techniques to enrich the soul and spirit
About the Author:
Elaine N. Aron, PhD, is a psychotherapist, workshop leader, researcher and highly sensitive person herself. She is the author of The Highly Sensitive Person in Love and The Highly Sensitive Person’s Workbook. She divides her time between San Francisco and New York.
Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference, that is, the capacity to place oneself in another’s position. Definitions of empathy encompass a broad range of emotional states. Wikipedia
