The Highly Sensitive Person's Workbook Paperback – June 8, 1999

Very helpful and informative workbook

When you are sensitive and an empath this book will speak your language. Great read.

Really helps you to inwards and do your homework and helped me understand where I was at in appreciating all creation and nature around me and my very competent core self. Like sun and breeze on skin and sound beauty of humming birds and breezes and my own sense of self. It validated how I appreciate everyone and everything around me and validated my experience stay integral and not be a door mat to unwelcoming currents and persons, even, of course, they were "well meaning."I highly recommend. It is something you could continually go back to over a life time. It is a welcoming addition to my library and is now like literary great work such as fiction because how much helped me appreciate wisdom and grace and inner peace I developed over the past several years or more. Husband loves it as well!

This book was a recommendation from a friend. I have a degree in psychology but I had never heard of being highly sensitive. I have heard about being an empath in a more "new age" way and this is the scientific explanation for being an empath. Absorbing other people's energies, being sensitive to noises, people, situations all rang a bell for me. I did buy the original book but I wouldn't say you need to get both. This can definitely be read on its own. I love the exercises. Some are a little weird, and I wouldn't have thought to give feelings a gender or a voice but it ended up being very interesting and actually helped work though some of the emotions I had been holding in. This is like therapy in a book. While I wouldn't suggest using this book alone as therapy it is definitely a start. If you are sensitive get this book NOW!

I purchased this with one child in mind but quickly found that it applied more to another. My minimally sensitive but very observant child enjoyed the assessments, identified with several chapters and applied a couple of the coping self-calming techniques.My Truly sensitive child has an affinity for the written word and found the Author’s limited vocabulary & stunning overuse of descriptors such as “arousal” & “highly sensitive” Very Annoying. Not “arousing”. Annoying.

Can't offer enough positive commentary about this book. It's been around awhile but wish I had found it sooner. Being one of those remarkable 20% of the population who are born with very sensitive nervous systems, I had no idea this was a genetic trait. Equally importantly, it is a highly valuable commodity both personally and publicly, for society. That is - if this type of person understands the trait and how to work WITH IT, rather than fight against it or merely hide from life because he or she is so embarrassed about it. This book and the accompanying series are self esteem boosting for sensitive/shy/environmentally overstimulated people and while every description will not fit every individual to a T, there is enough meat in here for sensitive souls to survive upon for perhaps the rest of your lives. Why hate yourself or allow others to shun you for being VALUABLE, UNIQUE and GIFTED? That is the primary lesson of this book.

If you are serious about understanding being a highly sensitive person and want to, ". . . Thrive When the World Overwhelms You," this book can be very helpful. It caused me to think hard about what I'd read in The Highly Sensitive Person; consider what I must do to overcome any obstacles and make positive changes in my life.Sometimes - even when I know what I must do - I procrastinate, then let things that can be helpful to me go by the wayside. This workbook made me plow ahead and do what had to be done. I appreciate that.The two volumes, The Highly Sensitive Person and the woorkbook are certaily well worth the time, effort and few dollars invested in them.

Again, this is a situation where I have not viewed this particular author myself as it was a gift for someone else. I have viewed one of the author’s documentaries and felt she did did good work.