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Kathrin SohstThe Power of High SensitivityTake Advantage of Your Strengths 220 pages, Hardcoverphotographs

To be strong despite being highly sensitive – this is a wish for many highly sensitive people who experience their high sensitivity as a burden. This book is dedicated to the topic of high sensitivity with a motivating, strength-based approach: Discover – Reflect – Get up.

Here’s how it works:

1. Discover and identify your own high sensitivity and accept yourself with all the challenges and strengths.

2. Reflect on and process your experiences with the help of authentic stories for different situations in life.

3. Get up and use resources, strategies, and concepts that make you strong, and integrate them into your everyday life.

The aim: living a sensitive and strong life.

The aim of this book is that you can accurately find the information, stories, and role models who have paved the way for a strong life as a highly sensitive person.

As an ambassador for high sensitivity, Kathrin Sohst advises highly sensitive people and organizes information and networking evenings, roundtables, workshops, seminars, and lectures. Her topic: High sensitivity + strength. Since 2005 she has been self-employed. Her motivation: “I want to strengthen sensitive people, raise awareness for nature and sustainability, legalize sensitivity, and set a new stand-ard of appreciation.

The book is divided into three parts:1. What is high sensitivity? What makes these people special?

2. What does this mean for different areas of life such as family, job, health, leisure, friends?

3. What are the strengths of highly sensitive people? The book contains tips and tricks for how to deal with high sensitivity; the book is encouraging, and meant for everyday use.

The reader learns how to accept and use his sensitive strengths. He learns to accept his nature, feels understood, and will be encouraged to accept himself and the world. Self-doubt, fear, and mental stress are reduced and the strengths are emphasized.

Key Selling Points: a new topic with a lot of attention from the media strengthening concepts for highly sensitive people for daily use how highly sensitive people experience the world guide for highly sensitive people as well as for people who interact with HSP in a professional or private environment

Target group: Women and men who are affected by high sensitivity (about 15–20% of the population.)

A delicate start: Highly sensitive messages

1. High sensitivity: Some people are more delicate than othersTake the test: How sensitive am I? Women are sensitive – so are men Characteristics of highly sensitive peopleHealth: A sensitive matterChildhood: Different from the very beginningChallenges – development potential of the delicate personSelf-doubts and VulnerabilityStrengths – highly sensitive qualities

2. Experiences + Perspectives: What highly sensitive people experience SensesHealth Relationships + familyWork + vocation

Leisure and ConsumptionValues

3. Strategies + Resources: How to bring out the potential in a delicate personStrength – (only) a question of attitude?Confidence – (even) in your own perceptionSelf-empathy – keeping your own needs in mindAccept instead of decline – give life a smileFocusing – quality over quantityConflict and criticism: Get out of your comfort zoneFeelings: source of energy and rejuvenatorDelicate and powerful at the same timeHighly sensitive art of living: How strong and delicate doers tickEight Theses for the Strong Highly Sensitive PersonInformation + recommendations on high sensitivity

Contents:

Take the test: How sensitive

am I?

How to be a Strong Highly Sensitive Person