Wonderful companion

I bought The Highly Sensitive Person a few years ago and felt that someone understood me for the first time. When a workbook to accompany the original was released I couldn't wait to buy it. I was not disappointed. It can be used as a stand alone text but I have been rereading the original and doing the exercises in the workbook at the same time. Elaine Aron is sensitive to us HSPs. Her workbook is not at all overwhelming and can be done at your own pace and as in depth as you want to go. I thank Elaine for standing up for those of us that while at times may be in the shadows are certainly not invisible. We are capable, strong, caring individuals and Elaine Aron, being one herself, is very in tune with the world as it affects us.
I recommend purchasing both the original text and the workbook.

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The perfect companion to the HSP 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.



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Sensitive types

Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) are already sensitive to the role a book like this can play in their ability to take an active approach to self-understanding. Once one's status as an HSP is established, by way of this book's sensitively provided self-tests, the book then goes on to provide the tools to categorise one's sensitivity-type (ST) even further. The rude and insensitive sector of the population (RAIPs) would no doubt be surprised to learn that there are several types of HSP, with different levels of sensitivity depending on the life domain. Introverted, creative, sociable, and worried HSPs everywhere will be grateful to have these tools at their fingertips to increase the depth of their self-awareness on the HSP scale.
My own self-awareness journey, however, has been hampered from the beginning by the gaudy colouring of this book's pink and yellow striped cover, with bright green and red overlaid font. Can't the publishers provide a version of the book suitable for highly photosensitive types like myself? We HPSPs are too often undervalued and ignored by the HSP community in general.

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