Product Description

Day-to-Day Help for Highly Sensitive People

About one in every five of us has a nervous system that is especially acute and finely tuned. If you're in this group, on one hand, it's a great gift. You're creative, compassionate, and you deeply appreciate subtlety and beauty in the world. On the other hand, you may be more easily disturbed by noise, bright lights, strong scents, crowds, and time pressure than the less sensitive among us.

In his first book, The Highly Sensitive Person's Survival Guide, author Ted Zeff presented ways to manage your heightened sensitivity. Now, in this take-along daily companion, he offers practical tips and exercises you can use to find inner peace in any environment. Each chapter of the book addresses overstimulation as it occurs in a specific aspect of life: relationships, work, daily pressures, exercise, and more.

Let this book be your pocket-sized guide to finding the calm you need to enjoy and thrive with your heightened sensitivity without feeling overwhelmed.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #26728 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 180 pages

From the Publisher
Reprising his successful first book, The Highly Sensitive Person's Survival Guide, author Ted Zeff offers new daily practices and skill-building exercises to help you survive in our over-stimulating world.

From the Inside Flap
Many new ideas to help highly sensitive people thrive. --Elaine Aron, Ph.D., author of The Highly Sensitive Person

The Highly Sensitive Person's Daily Companion is a wellspring of practice advice for people who feel chronically overwhelmed. This proactive guide will help you take control of your environment, your relationships, and your emotions. -- Linda Johnsen, author of Lost Masters and A Thousand Suns

About the Author
Ted Zeff, Ph.D., received his doctorate in psychology in 1981 from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, CA. He currently teaches workshops on coping techniques for highly sensitive people. He has taught stress reduction and insomnia management for more than fifteen years at various hospitals and medical groups. He is author of The Highly Sensitive Person's Survival Guide.

Customer Reviews

Very good
I work as a psychotherapist and often see clients feeling a lot of
self-reproach and poor self-esteem because they think there is
something wrong with them since they are so finely attuned to their
environment. They are easily overwhelmed, burnt out, or deflated due to
their reactions to their home or work environments. If I suspect they
may be an HSP I refer them to Dr. Zeff's book and they have reported
feeling relief that there really is nothing wrong with them and that
there are many people like them i.e. 20% of the population. The book
offers specific strategies to cope with overstimulation which are
immensely helpful.

A very funny guide for empowering jerks
This book is a series of unintentionally hilarious ideas that whiny people are supposed to use to make every part of their world conform to their slightest whim, because apparently no discomfort is too tiny to make all those around them work hard to ameliorate it. It's good that the book's estimate of 20% of the population being HSP is incredibly overstated, so that the rest of us will have some vain hope of making these people happy, or more to the point, shut up about it all.

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A LOT OF GREAT ADVICE FOR THE SENSITIVE PERSON


This book is chock full of information to help the sensitive person function at an optimal level in our tense society. I've been practicing Dr. Zeff's weekly techniques and have found them helpful. One of his chapters dealing with resolving conflicts with difficult people at work has been a lifesaver. After many months of putting up with an insensitive co-worker, we now have worked out a solution and I can finally feel calm at work. That chapter alone was worth the price of the book.

I have been following his suggestions of eating heavy, warm, moist foods and now feel more grounded from my new diet. I've also enjoyed practicing his different meditation techniques. So many great suggestions!