Sensitive Self

Do you have a heightened sense of empathy? Do you often notice details that others ignore? Do you ever feel overwhelmed in a busy, loud environment? If you answered yes to any of those questions, chances are you're a 'highly sensitive person', along with one fifth of the population. Highly sensitive people exemplify our most humane traits. They embody not just emotional sensitivity - qualities like empathy, kindness, and concern for strangers - but physical sensitivity too, processing all information very deeply.

In this groundbreaking classic, Dr. Elaine Aron, a research and clinical psychologist as well as an HSP herself, shows the listener how to identify the HSP trait and make the most of it in everyday situations. Drawing on her many years of research and face-to-face time spent with HSPs, this fully updated edition features guidance and self-assessment tests to help identify particular sensitivities.

Embrace empathy as your superpower for transformative personal healing, deeper relationships, and more potent work in the world. Empathy is no weakness―it holds transformative power to heal ourselves, strengthen our relationships, and amplify our purpose. Dr. Judith Orloff, known for landmark...

One in five people is born with the trait of high sensitivity. Yet there is a general lack of awareness of the trait in our society, which leaves many people struggling physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually with being highly sensitive in a nonsensitive world. More often than not, HSPs are yearning for acceptance of their trait.

'Written with such understanding and power it takes your breath away' - JEREMY VINE DISCOVER THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF SENSITIVITY Have you even been told you are being 'too sensitive'? That you should develop a thicker skin? Society tells us that it's bad to be too soft, or feel too much. But...

With a foreword from acclaimed psychologist Dr Elaine Aron comes a timely and invaluable book that will help redefine masculinity and reveal how high sensitivity can enrich men’s lives, their communities and the lives of those who love them. Highly sensitive people think deeply, empathise instinctively and behave in an ethical way that benefits everyone. Today, with the negative effects of ‘toxic masculinity’ and aggressive behaviour in evidence all around us, we need highly sensitive people - especially men - more than ever.

No matter what’s happening in the world around you or how overwhelmed you may feel, you can find your path towards peace and equanimity. Internationally bestselling author of The Highly Sensitive Person, Dr Elaine N Aron is leading a quiet revolution to help us find inner calm and clearer...

Are You a Highly Sensitive Person? Here's the Essential Course to Thrive in the World. Are you sensitive to bright lights, loud noises, strong smells, or coarse fabrics? Do other people’s moods and needs strongly affect you? On busy days, do you ever wish you could withdraw to a quiet, private...

An unabridged audio of Dr. Judith Orloff’s guide for 365 days of self-care meditations, reflections, and journaling suggestions as daily inoculations against stress and overwhelm Empaths have so much to offer as healers, creatives, friends, lovers, and innovators at work. Yet highly sensitive...

Self-care is one of the most important things you can learn, but the key is understanding what works best for you, and how to go about it. But do you often find yourself struggling with self-care? Have you tried countless tactics and suggestions from people online or in your inner circle? Do you feel drained from social interactions? Are you related to the emotions your friends and family experiencing? You may find yourself questioning why you get sensitive about things, or you may believe you are overreacting.

Being a highly sensitive person means you’re probably highly misunderstood and you may feel like you’re too empathetic for your own good. Your intuition and empathy create situations where you always put others first and say “yes” to everything, regardless of how you feel or what you need. As a result, you end up in unhealthy relationship dynamics that leave you exhausted, resentful, and stressed.

Being a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) can feel like a curse. It’s often much more difficult to build social relationships, and your life is filled with anxiety and emotional overload.However, being an HSP is also a gift - if you can learn the right strategies. This book is for HSPs and the people of love an HSP. You will learn how to build strong social relationships and increase your emotional intelligence. You will also learn to stop your anxiety and emotional overload. Most importantly, you will learn how to use your natural gifts as an HSP to live the life of your dreams.

Have you ever been told to toughen up or stop taking everything so seriously? Or do you feel that in a harsh world - where the way to get noticed is to shout the loudest - your heartfelt approach just doesn’t cut it? Some of us are born sensitive. We live our lives vividly through the lens of emotion and with our senses perpetually on high alert.

Learn why you sometimes feel over stimulated and highly sensitive and develop strategies for thriving in an intense world. Do you feel you experience life more vividly than others? Do people sometimes describe you as emotionally intense or oversensitive? Do your emotions soar high and plunge so...

If you think being a highly sensitive person is an endless struggle and burden, think again. Yes, highly sensitive people go through many challenges in life, as you’re well aware. You might easily feel drained by interactions, find it difficult to concentrate with so many distractions, or feel stronger emotions from ordinary encounters.

If you struggle with a highly sensitive personality, this memoir and collection of stories will help you heal and flourish. Benita A. Esposito is a licensed professional counselor and best-selling author with four decades of professional experience. Even smart high-achievers have themes on their hero’s journey to the authentic self, and these were hers. What unconsciously drew her to an emotionally distant relationship or an emotionally abusive relationship? Why did she feel so hurt when others judged her? Why was she so tired? What compelled her toward self actualization?

If you're a highly sensitive person (HSP), you're in good company. HSPs make up some 20 percent of the population, individuals like you who both enjoy and wrestle with a finely tuned nervous system. You often sense things that others ignore such as strong smells, bright lights, and the crush of crowds. Even the presence of strangers in your immediate vicinity can cause you considerable distraction.

Thriving as a Highly Sensitive Person is a compassionate, science-based guide that helps you embrace your sensitivity, understand yourself deeply, and create a life that truly fits who you are. Whether you’re an HSP, love someone who is, or support HSPs in your work, you’ll find practical tools, real stories, and meaningful insight to help you grow with confidence.

Are you looking to put an end to constant overwhelm and drained energy? What drives the emotional state of an individual? If you have ever felt affected by the emotions of those around you, or overwhelmed by your sensitivities to feelings and emotions in general, you are not alone. Individuals with these emotional sensitivities are known as an HSP (Highly Sensitive People/Person), which is not to be confused with an empath. Although the term HSP and empath are often linked together, they are actually not the same thing.

Approximately 20% of the population is sensitive or in some way psychic. Being sensitive or psychic can allow you to understand the world in a way that most people can’t, and to see beyond what others are able to. But for many of you sensitivities are a burden, causing overwhelm or even...