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Find Your Strength provides highly sensitive people with the tools they need to find emotional resilience and thrive in a difficult world.
List of contents
CONTENTS
Introduction
NURTURE YOUR
SENSITIVITY
Honor Your Sensitive Needs
Recharge with Daily Downtime
Journaling Reflections
Stress-Relief Toolbox
Feeling Misunderstood
Embrace Your Big Feelings
Self-Compassion Practice
Quiet the Inner Critic
Soothe Anxiety + Depression
Follow Your Own Timeline
Make Decisions with Ease
Calm an Overthinking Mind
Chapter Summary
CREATE A SUPPORTIVE
LIFESTYLE
Life on Your Own Terms
Find a Consistent Routine
Identify Recurring Stress
Take Time Off
Design a Soothing Home
Create a Cozy Sleep Space
Soothe Your Sensitive
Nervous System
Soften Morning Dread
Sugar, Caffeine, and Alcohol
Meaningful Self-Care
Joy of Doing Less
Mindful Media Consumption
Chapter Summary
NAVIGATE
RELATION SHIPS
Less Small Talk, More Connection
Manage Empathy
Share Your Sensitivity
Connect with an HSP
Express Needs Directly
Romantic Partnerships
Building Boundaries
Cancel Plans with Grace
Understand Social Overwhelm
Social Survival Strategy
Recharge after Socializing
Work with Criticism
Chapter Summary
FIND BALANCE
AT WORK
Calm in the Chaos
Choose a Career
Reduce Overstimulation
Being Observed
The Extrovert Ideal
Set Boundaries at Work
Learn to Self-Soothe
Seek Work-Life Balance
Minimize Performance
Pressure
Advocate for Your Needs
Start and End with Self-Care
Sunday Blues
Chapter Summary
EXPLORE YOUR
INNER WORLD
Out of the Darkness
Moment of Discovery
Intersection of Sensitivity
Reframe Narratives
Overcome Self-Doubt
Healing Grief and Shame
Mindfulness Practice
Through an HSP Lens
Trust Your Intuition
Explore Dreams
Sources of Inspiration
Sensitive Strengths
Chapter Summary
Conclusion
Resources
References
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the author
April Snow, LMFT, is a licensed psychotherapist, author, and consultant in California. She specializes in working with highly sensitive introverts and therapists to help calm the storm of overwhelm, anxiety, and self-doubt to allow their innate sensitive strengths to shine through. Deeply committed to changing the narrative of what it means to be highly sensitive, April has created and led HSP workshops all over the country as well as online through her Sensitive School. In addition to
Find Your Strength, she has written
Mindfulness Workbook for Stress Relief and
The Empowered Highly Sensitive Person's Self-Care Journal.
Summary
Find Your Strength provides highly sensitive people with the tools they need to find emotional resilience and thrive in a difficult world.
