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The Sensitive Person's Survival Guide: An Alternative Health Answer to Emotional Sensitivity & Depression

The Sensitive Person's Survival Guide: An Alternative Health Answer to Emotional Sensitivity & DepressionAuthor: Kyra Mesich Psy.D.
Publisher: iUniverse
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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 reviews
Sales Rank: 82741

Media: Paperback
Pages: 128
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.5

ISBN: 0595098002
Dewey Decimal Number: 155
EAN: 9780595098002
ASIN: 0595098002

Publication Date: July 24, 2000
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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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5 out of 5 stars A Revelation   June 6, 2010
just_sayin (USA)
It's easy to say, "I wish I could have known all this sooner," but be that as it may... this book is so helpful for those of us who have sincerely tried to figure out or manage how we seem to "feel" differently than others.

For me, this book offers an alternate, or should I say, complementary, explanation for reactions I'm familiar with, e.g. seeming to sponge up others emotions, and not realizing they are not necessarily mine - a common reaction of a person who might be considered "sensitive." (I acknowledge there are many intepretations of this word, and Ms. Mesich has a particular one.)

This book put a lot of pieces together for me, and made them make sense. I finished the book feeling empowered and hopeful.



5 out of 5 stars Great Resource For Empathic or Highly Sensitive Individuals   February 19, 2009
Book-A-Holic (Nebraska)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

I am empathic, a gift I've rarely shared with my husband and have hidden from my friends. Dr. Meisch's years of research, along with her openness about her personal experiences, answered many of my questions, assured me of my sanity, and offered understanding, acceptance and protection at a time I desperately needed it. Thank you Dr. Meisch! For those who are suffering from their sensitivity but want to avoid "woo-woo" books, this one felt very mainstream, even though the subject matter is not.

Patricia Kaminski Flower Essence Repertory



4 out of 5 stars Feels right to me!   July 11, 2007
Barbara Atkinson (On the Central Coast of California)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful

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.


2 out of 5 stars Right Track, Wrong Train of Thought   June 1, 2007
R. Martin
16 out of 18 found this review helpful

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.



5 out of 5 stars Managing Empathy for Mental and Emotional Health   March 18, 2007
Katherine Alexandra, the Christian (In the Moment)
14 out of 15 found this review helpful

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.

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