Product Description

“The Sensitive Person's Survival Guide is an outstanding contribution to body-mind healing and has our highest recommendation. Dr. Mesich explains the relationship between emotional sensitivity and psychic awareness in clear, accessible language, showing that such abilities should not be discredited but rather developed as genuine gifts.”—Patricia Kaminski, Executive Director, The Flower Essence Society

The Sensitive Person's Survival Guide presents a radically new way of looking at emotional sensitivity, chronic depression and anxiety. Through her own experiences and courageous research, Dr. Kyra Mesich, a traditionally-trained psychologist, found that psychic sensitivity is the underlying key to understanding emotional sensitivity.

Dr. Mesich focuses on empathic ability (also known as psychic feeling), which is the ability to literally feel other people’s emotional experiences. This misunderstood ability often results in recurrent depression, anxiety and the painful aspects of emotional sensitivity due in part to society’s denial and repression of the existence of psychic phenomena.

With simple, down-to-earth language and examples, The Sensitive Person’s Survival Guide demystifies empathic ability and explains the relationship between emotional sensitivity and psychic sensitivity.

Readers learn specific alternative health remedies and practices to immediately implement in their own lives to rebalance their sensitivity and reconnect with their empathic ability. Armed with this knowledge, readers will experience relief from mysterious lifelong emotional suffering and turn their sensitivity into strength and joy!

“People suffer in countless ways from their sensitivity, depression being the most common, and most are never properly diagnosed, only medicated. The Sensitive Person’s Survival Guide gave me a ray of hope that the day is coming when the maladies of empathic people will be taken seriously and treated in a more realistic way.”—Echo Bodine, author of Echoes of the Soul

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #83118 in Books
• Published on: 2000-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Review
"Offers a new option for handling tough problems." -- Foreword Magazine, December 2000

An original and compelling contribution to students of alternative medicine, metaphysical studies, and self-help reading lists. -- Midwest Book Review, April 2001

From the Inside Flap
“People suffer in countless ways from their sensitivity, depression being the most common, and most are never properly diagnosed, only medicated. Reading The Sensitive Person’s Survival Guide gave me a ray of hope that the day is coming when the maladies of empathic people will be taken seriously and treated in a more realistic way.” — Echo Bodine, author of 'Echoes of the Soul'

Are you emotionally sensitive? Do you suffer from depression or anxiety? Do you know why?

The answers are finally all here in The Sensitive Person’s Survival Guide. Dr. Kyra Mesich has blended the best of alternative medicine and psychology to provide a new, fascinating explanation and successful treatment for recurrent psychological distress.

Did you know that a simple, side-effect-free, alternative health remedy holds the key to emotional healing? Did you know that empathic abilities underlie your emotional sensitivity? Want to learn more?

You won’t find the answers anywhere other than inside these pages where the truth about emotional sensitivity is revealed openly, honestly, and empathically.

About the Author
Kyra Mesich earned her doctoral degree in clinical psychology from the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, FL. In the years since her training, Dr. Mesich has studied extensively in the field of alternative health. By studying such practices as herbalism, flower essence therapy, energy healing, and meditation, Dr. Mesich seeks to uncover the true meaning and underlying source of the emotional suffering so many of us endure. She works and resides in Minneapolis, MN.

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Customer Reviews

Feels right to me!
Dr. Mesich's book is concise, articulate and to the point. Through her own experience as a psychologist, she began "taking on" as her own the emotions of some of her clients; she didn't recognize her empathetic nature, nor fully understand its implications. She was in the perfect training ground with her practice. Those of us who have struggled with an empathic nature, gain from Dr. Mesich's growth and understanding of what empathy is all about. Best of all we don't have to slog through a tome to find some suggestions as to how to heal our boundaries and move to embracing the positive aspects of empathy. I haven't tried the flower essences yet, so can't speak to that. I understand it has helped many, and been ineffective for a few. In my mind, her meditations are geared to the beginner, which is good in the long run. As a spiritually seasoned woman, I'm most interested in the flower essence information and her writing about empathy in general. If you don't suffer from long term depression, don't be put off by that word in the title as I almost was. You don't have to suffer from long bouts of depression to benefit from Dr. Mesich's words. I highly recommend the book.

Right Track, Wrong Train of Thought
I'm happy this book was of some help to others; however, it was not of much use to me. The author starts off with personal experiences of pain and illness that were very familiar to me. I thought I had found someone who understood, and even better, a treatment method that might actually work. Don't get me wrong, her theory that certain illnesses might be linked to empathy makes a great deal of sense to me. It's her recommended treatment, the use of flower essences, that seemed to fall short (again, I'm only speaking of myself; if it works for you, fantastic!) In my case, the flower essences made me so ill that I was forced to seek traditional medical attention. Also, her recommendation of meditation makes a great deal of sense - but don't put it off until after you've used the flower essences, as the author recommends. The sooner you can get a grip on your stress level, rampant emotions, and overactive empathy, the better.
With all due respect to the author and to the people she has helped, I cannot in good conscience recommend this book.

Managing Empathy for Mental and Emotional Health
When the world bogs you down too easily you are an empath. You take on other people's emotions and your internal anchor is easily thrown by strong feelings around you. If you have difficulty distinguishing between your emotions and that of others you need to shield yourself. This is what is meant by energetic boundaries. Don't be prey to others emotions and manage your own. These are great techniques and an arsenol against too much of other people's stuff.