You just spent a day at Disneyland with your family, getting lost in the throngs of people, noises, lights, and smells. Your kids are ready to ride Space Mountain again, but all you want to do is go find a dark, quiet place to hide out for a while.
If that sounds familiar, you might be a highly sensitive person.
In 1996, Dr. Elaine Aron published her groundbreaking book, The Highly Sensitive Person
Before I read The Highly Sensitive Person when I was 26 years old, I thought there was something wrong with me that only a lifetime of therapy (and maybe drugs) would be able to fix. I felt neurotic, imbalanced, and constantly frazzled.
But Elaine Aron taught me it’s okay to be me… a highly sensitive person.
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