First, she taught you the value of your highly sensitive nature in her
bestselling classic The Highly Sensitive Person. Now, Dr. Elaine Aron
is back to teach you how to utilize your sensitivity to tackle a new
challenge: Parenthood.
Parenting is the most valuable and rewarding job in the world, and also
one of the most challenging. This is especially true for highly
sensitive people. Highly sensitive parents are unusually attuned to
their children. They think deeply about every issue affecting their kids
and have strong emotions, both positive and negative, in response. For
highly sensitive people, parenting offers unique stresses--but the good
news is that sensitivity can also be a parent's most valuable asset,
leading to increased personal joy and a closer, happier relationship
with their child.
Dr. Elaine Aron, world-renowned author of the classic The Highly
Sensitive Person and other bestselling books on the trait of high
sensitivity, has written an indispensable guide for these parents.
Drawing on extensive research and her own experience, she helps highly
sensitive parents identify and address the implications of their
heightened sensitivity, offering:
- A self-examination test to help parents identify their level of
sensitivity
- Tools to cope with overstimulation
- Advice on dealing with the negative feelings that can surround
parenting
- Ways to manage the increased social stimulation and interaction that
comes with having a child
- Techniques to deal with shyness around other parents
- Insight into the five big problems that face highly sensitive parents
in relationships--and how to work through them
Highly sensitive people have the potential to be not just good parents,
but great ones. Practical yet warm and positive, this groundbreaking
guide will show parents how to build confidence, awareness, and
essential coping skills so that they--and their child--can thrive on
every stage of the parenting journey.
"This book is filled with validating, healing and empowering
information about how to navigate one of the most important roles of our
lives while being highly sensitive. It changed my life in the most
healing and empowering ways."
--Alanis Morissette, artist, activist, teacher
