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'Too sensitive for your own good'? If you've heard this before, Make Your Sensitivity Work for You could be the book you need. Although there are many advantages to being 'a sensitive type', such as increased empathy, imagination and understanding of people, oversensitive people often have a hard time of it. They may be easily hurt, unable to say no and more prone to anxiety than average. Chartered psychologist and stress expert Alice Muir looks at how sensitive people can accept themselves on their own terms. She also shows how they can make sensitivity work for them rather than against them. The topics covered include:

• Regaining a sense of control
• Confidence-boosting tips for the very sensitive
• Coping with stimulus — the sensitive person may need far less than average
• Mood swings, and how to handle them
• The importance of time alone
• Relaxation and meditation techniques, plus other physical and mental tips
• Anxiety, depression and obsessive states

Contents

Contents

Introduction

• Are you too sensitive?
• Make your sensitivity work for you
• Why you are too sensitive
• How to be more confident — on your terms
• Coping with stimulus and regaining a sense of control
• Coping with mood swings
• Sensitive steps towards assertion
• Calming your sensitivity 1: physical tips
• Calming your sensitivity 2: mental tips
• When sensitivity gets out of hand
• How to make your thinking style work better for you
• The way forward

Useful resources
Index

Extra Info

In a gentle and approachable way, Alice Muir gives helpful advice on how highly sensitive people can boost self-esteem and confidence and live life to the full.

If you are reading this book, or thumbing through it in a bookshop, the chances are that you think that you are too sensitive. What makes you think this? What sorts of experiences have you had which have made you wonder about it, and moreover, want to do something about it?

And why today? Why have you lifted this book up today, or bought it and taken it home with you? There is often a straw that has broken the camel's back and decided you that today, you must do something. You're sure that there has to be something you can do about this.

Perhaps you feel you've been let down one time too many, or that you spend too much time worrying about others' welfare rather than your own. Maybe you've fallen out with your best friend, or had yet another blazing row with your partner. Or maybe you just can't face another day with that loud-mouthed colleague at work, or have absolutely no idea how you're going to manage another day living next door to that difficult neighbour. Or maybe it's just like the dripping tap that goes on and on, and today, you are worn out and can't take any more of it. In other words, for whatever reason, your stress levels are just too high. Whatever it is, whatever has motivated you to do something, rest assured that this book will be able to help you.

Today probably lies at the end of many, many days of having problems with being too sensitive. You've probably been told many times that 'You're too sensitive for your own good.' If you've heard this one before, it doesn't mean you are a social outcast, mad, or doomed to failure — just that you view life differently to many people. Not worse, not better, just differently.

In this book, I'll show you that you shouldn't be wishing your sensitivity away. I'll show you that you should be proud of being sensitive. Being a sensitive person can be a really good thing too — there's another side to every coin. A sensitive person may well have more empathy and sympathy, more time for others — a sensitive person is often very well loved. A sensitive person may have a special role to play in life, such as taking on work in a charity or with animals, that demands an exceptional level of responsiveness.This is a new start for you.

This book will help you to cope better with the downside and frustrations of being sensitive — the hurt, guilt, and anxiety. I will help you to deal with situations more effectively, so that you can feel better, and be more relaxed, less moody, and happy with who you are. I'll explain how to feel and act more confidently, how to feel stronger and more in control of your life, and how simple tips about the way you think can transform your life for ever.

About the Author
Alice Muir is an experienced trainer, Chartered Psychologist and Life Coach. She is married with a grown-up family. Alice is the youngest of eight children, and spent her childhood in the Ayrshire countryside, before training at Glasgow and Stirling Universities. She is a member of the British Psychological Society, the General Teaching Council, the International Stress Management Association and the Association for Coaching. Alice has a long standing interest in personal development, and has been writing and training on the subject, as well as coaching groups and individuals, for the past 25 years. With Dr Kenneth Hambly, she wrote Coping with a Stressed Nervous System, also published by Sheldon Press.
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