Reviewed by Rama Gaind.
By Dr. Patricia Zurita Ona, Exisle Publishing, $29.99.
If you, or someone you care about is hyper-sensitive and are held hostage by your emotions, you’ll know that life for the ‘super-feeler’ is no joy ride.
Here’s a simple toolkit that’ll show you how to smooth out the emotional highs and lows, will help highly reactive people enjoy better relationships, less anxiety and more happiness.
Clinical psychologist who specialises in obsessive compulsive disorder, anxiety and motion regulation problems, Dr Ona has written this book for the super-feelers, ‘thinking of you, your daily struggles and what you experience in your life; when you read it, you will see that these pages tap into core challenges super-feelers face’.
“Instead of putting on Band-Aids that only work temporarily, it shows you, step-by-step, behaviorally speaking, how to stop living in agony because of all the emotional noise you go through.”
The skills presented in these chapters are based on an empirically supported approach called Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and incorporates current findings of emotion science, neurobiology of attachment and affective neuroscience.
If you’ve ever been told that you’re ‘too sensitive’ or felt overwhelmed by your emotions, this is the book for you.
Using the principles of ACT and positive psychology, Dr Zurita Ona provides a simple roadmap for every ‘super-feeler’ on how to avoid being hijacked by your emotions. You will discover that you are far more than your emotions, and that you can always choose to act in a way that is consistent with your personal values, in order to experience fulfilling, loving relationships.
You will learn seven specific ACT skills that applied into your daily life will help you to realise that you’re more than your emotions. No matter how intense the situation, you can learn to choose to act in a way that is consistent with your personal values.
Of course, there is nothing wrong with being a super-feeler. It’s a great thing; you’re just wired to feel too much, too quick, and act too soon.
Perfect example of the way self-help books should be.
