The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You [Paperback]

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's a way of life.  In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Elaine Aron, a psychotherapist, workshop leader and highly sensitive person herself, 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 how you can better understand yourself and your trait to create a fuller, richer life.  

InThe Highly Sensitive Person,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
*Informations on medications and when to seek help
*Techniques to enrich the soul and spirit“I wept through almost every page of this book out of sheer self-recognition. To say this book changed my life would be an understatement. I am forever grateful to Elaine Aron.”
--Alanis Morissette, singer, songwriter, activist

This remarkable book...gives a fresh perspective, a sigh of relief, and a good sense of where we belong in society.
--John Gray, author ofMen Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

Elaine Aron's perceptive analysis of this fundamental dimension of human nature is must reading. Her balancedl“W