Highly Sensitive People in an Insensitive World: How to Create a Happy Life - by Ilse Sand
Highly Sensitive People in an Insensitive World: How to Create a Happy Life is one of the ten self-help books by Ilse Sand – a psychotherapist, author, and speaker helping HSPs embrace their Sensitivity.
The book is currently available in 24 languages, and it aims to educate Highly Sensitive People (HSPs about the HSP trait and how to deal with difficulties such as low self-esteem, social overwhelm and mislabeling.
So, if you struggle to keep up with social expectations and can’t understand why, Ilse Sand is here to help.
More Books by Ilse Sand – HSP Psychotherapist and Author
Highly Sensitive People in an Insensitive World is one of the ten books by Ilse Sand. Below, please find a list of the other nine books by the psychotherapist.
– Get Support From Your Ancestry To Be Who You Are – With an English release in February 2024, Ilse Sand uses this book to share the benefits of ancestry therapy. She demonstrates how ancestors are the key to loving confirmation and how this can provide strength and courage to show up in the world as your best self. The book is available in four languages.
– Helping Through Conversation:Specific advice, ideas and instruction – Available in five languages, this book is for anyone wanting to help the people around them. It shares practical tips and tools for asking the right questions, dealing with shame and fear, finding a more intimate and heartfelt way to talk about the problem, and focusing on life principles that box up another person.
– Confronting Shame: How to Understand Your Shame and Gain Inner Freedom – Available in 11 languages, Ilse Sand hopes this book will help you to be more kind and empathetic to yourself. It features exercises and tools in each chapter and a questionnaire to assess shame’s impact on your life.
– See Yourself with Friendly Eyes: How to Let Go of Guilt – Available in 10 languages, this book will help you discover how prone you are to developing a guilty conscience. It will also share tools to help you overcome the exaggerated part of guilt that unnecessarily weighs you down.
– On Being an Introvert or Highly Sensitive Person – Accessible in 14 languages, Ilse Sand uses this book to explain Introversion and High Sensitivity. She demonstrates the strengths of these two traits and shares tools to help Introverts and HSPs cope with challenges such as overstimulation, overthinking, and boundaries.
– Come Closer: On Love and Self-Protection – Available in 15 languages, Ilse Sand uses this book to help you recognize specific protective behaviours hindering close relationships and reasons for engaging in them. She hopes you will understand the source of these patterns and objectively consider the alternatives.
– Tools for Helpful Souls – Written in simple language with real-life examples and practical exercises, this book serves as a handbook for Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) who provide help either on a professional or personal level. It shares psychotherapy tools and practices that anyone can use without formal training. The book is available in nine languages.
– The Emotional Compass: How to Think Better about Your Feelings – Accessible in 13 languages, this book will help you identify the vulnerable feelings that often underlie our more volatile emotional states. It will also share practical activities to help you embrace or reject sadness, delay impulsive actions, and allow yourself to be happy.
These books are a follow-up to Highly Sensitive People in an Insensitive World – the first book in the collection of Ilse Sand books. The missing entry in the above list of other books by Ilse Sand is currently unavailable in English.