Trusting Your Highly Sensitive Self - by Elizabeth Venart (Paperback)

About the Book

People who identify as highly sensitive (HSPs) often struggle with intense emotions, stress intolerance, and sensory overwhelm. They may also feel that the world invalidates and rejects their sensitivity--leading to shame and self-doubt. This groundbreaking book offers skills based in internal family systems (IFS) therapy to help HSPs reconnect with their core selves, embrace their creativity and natural gifts, rebuild self-trust, and reclaim wholeness.

Book Synopsis

Rebuild self-trust, embrace your unique gifts, and find balance as a highly sensitive person in a fast-paced, overstimulating world.

If you identify as a highly sensitive person (HSP), you may struggle with stress, sensory overwhelm, and intense emotions. When the world invalidates or rejects your sensitivity, this rejection can lead to feelings of shame, self-doubt, and alienation. Despite your inherent empathy, creativity, and intuition, you may feel confused and unsure of yourself. So, how can you embrace these gifts and thrive as your authentic self?

Trusting Your Highly Sensitive Self offers strategies based in Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) and parts work to help you reconnect with your core self, celebrate your intuition, rebuild self-trust, and reclaim wholeness. You'll discover the innate brilliance of your parts to adapt to the challenges of an overwhelming world, move past internalized negative messages, and cultivate the resilience and confidence needed to live your best life.

This groundbreaking guide will help you:

• Work effectively with 'inner critics'
• Navigate intense emotions with greater ease
• Overcome areas where you feel 'stuck'
• Look inward for wisdom and wholeness

If you're struggling to reconcile your inherent gifts of sensitivity with the demands of a high-stress world, the strengths-based, holistic, and non-pathologizing approach in this book can help you find clarity, peace of mind, and unwavering self-compassion.

About the Author

Elizabeth Venart, MEd, NCC, LPC, is a licensed professional counselor in Pennsylvania with more than thirty years of experience. A Certified Internal Family Systems Therapist, IFS Institute Approved Consultant, and Lead Trainer in IFS-informed EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing), Elizabeth is passionate about sharing the compassionate and transformative model of IFS with clients and therapists alike. As a therapist, educator, mentor, and fellow traveler, she supports highly sensitive people in discovering their creative resilience and innate wisdom. She lives in the Philadelphia area.