Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Dr. Kyra Mesich, author of the new Strength of Sensitivity.
I've dedicated my holistic psychology career to helping sensitive people. It shouldn't surprise you that I'm highly sensitive; part of this quest has been to understand myself. I used to be a typical sensitive kid and young adult. I cried easily, got overwhelmed in loud or crowded environments, and the emotions of other people would sometimes exhaust me. Even after attending grad school for psychology, I still had no better understanding of why I was so sensitive and uncomfortable much of the time. Although we may go to universities to learn, it is life that presents us with our