Highly Sensitive People in an Insensitive World ─ How to Create a Happy Life

Highly sensitive person (HSP) is an innate personality trait introduced by American psychologist Elaine Aron. In this book for HSPs, students, and other general readers, author Isle Sand, a Danish psychotherapist and priest, explains how HSP is different from simple introversion or shyness, and provides advice on coping with the negative aspects, such as being affected by others’ moods, and on how to embrace the positive aspects of being highly sensitive, such as spirituality and emotional depth. The author gives advice, exercises, and activities for setting personal boundaries, preventing overstimulation, dealing with guilt and anger, and heading off depression. The book includes the voices of real people and their experiences, along with includes a self-test for characteristics of HSP. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Ilse Sand is a theology graduate from the University of Aarhus, where she wrote her Master's thesis on C.G. Jung and Soren Kierkegaard. She is also trained in several psychotherapeutic approaches and is registered with the Association for Psychotherapy in Denmark. After being employed for several years as a parish priest for the Danish National Church she now works as a supervisor, trainer, speaker and therapist. See more at www.highlysensitive-hsp.comTranslated from the Danish by Elisabeth Svanholmer. Elisabeth is originally from Denmark and has been living in the UK since 2013. Her background is in Dance and Arts, but she has been working as a mental health trainer since 2006 and is particularly passionate about recovery and holistic approaches to mental health. She contacted Ilse and offered to help translate the book and now looks forward to sharing it with an English speaking audience.