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The Gifted Highly Sensitive Introvert: Wisdom for Emotional Healing and Expressing Your Radiant Authentic Self
Are you a smart high achiever who struggles with anxiety or depression? Do people say you’re too sensitive? Do noisy crowds, conflicts and brash people irritate you? Discover profound insights from this #1 bestselling author that will help you heal and flourish.
Does your heart ache when loved ones won’t emotionally connect with you? Do you struggle with self-acceptance when you’re less than perfect? Do you need to recuperate in the privacy of your inner sanctuary? Is personal spiritual development important to you?
If you have a highly sensitive personality, and you struggle with similar issues, this book is for you.
Benita A. Esposito is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a highly sensitive introvert. Her quest for healthy relationships resulted in disappointment time and time again. Anguish motivated her to find the most effective emotional healing techniques so she could heal the emptiness inside. Attachment theory suggested that she needed to delve into healing childhood wounds.
Esposito discovered that being an intuitive empath with a desire to help others is a beautiful trait. But without higher wisdom, it can draw you into hurtful relationships like a moth to a candle flame.
Finally, Esposito squelched the search to find love outside of her self. She summoned the courage to ferret out her deepest fears, cultivate self-compassion and develop deeper intimacy with God.
The result? A very long Dark Night of the Soul. Some would have diagnosed her with depression, but it wasn't that. God was stripping away narrow-minded notions of love and wooing her into the most exquisite sacred love affair. As she spiritually matured, she emerged wet-winged from the cocoon, ready to fly. The empty feelings inside vanished.
Now after four decades of hard-won wisdom, Esposito shares her memoir and teaching stories to help you stop suffering.
The Gifted Highly Sensitive Wisdom for Emotional Healing and Expressing Your Radiant Authentic Self will help you feel loved and empowered regardless of your external circumstances.
This book will appeal to Christians and all others who share a grace-filled theology. Be sure to read the foreword by Father Nigel Mumford. He’s one of the most delightful Episcopalian priests you’ll ever meet.
You’ll receive guidance to navigate your Hero’s Journey to your true Authentic
If you like intimate personal stories, self-reflection exercises and advice from a seasoned professional, then you'll love Benita A. Esposito’s inspirational memoir.
Scroll to the top of the page and click the “Buy Now” button to fast track your Hero's Journey to self-actualization today!
P.S. The Spanish eBook is El introvertido superdotado y altamente sensible on Amazon.com, Amazon.es and Amazon.mx.
Does your heart ache when loved ones won’t emotionally connect with you? Do you struggle with self-acceptance when you’re less than perfect? Do you need to recuperate in the privacy of your inner sanctuary? Is personal spiritual development important to you?
If you have a highly sensitive personality, and you struggle with similar issues, this book is for you.
Benita A. Esposito is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a highly sensitive introvert. Her quest for healthy relationships resulted in disappointment time and time again. Anguish motivated her to find the most effective emotional healing techniques so she could heal the emptiness inside. Attachment theory suggested that she needed to delve into healing childhood wounds.
Esposito discovered that being an intuitive empath with a desire to help others is a beautiful trait. But without higher wisdom, it can draw you into hurtful relationships like a moth to a candle flame.
Finally, Esposito squelched the search to find love outside of her self. She summoned the courage to ferret out her deepest fears, cultivate self-compassion and develop deeper intimacy with God.
The result? A very long Dark Night of the Soul. Some would have diagnosed her with depression, but it wasn't that. God was stripping away narrow-minded notions of love and wooing her into the most exquisite sacred love affair. As she spiritually matured, she emerged wet-winged from the cocoon, ready to fly. The empty feelings inside vanished.
Now after four decades of hard-won wisdom, Esposito shares her memoir and teaching stories to help you stop suffering.
The Gifted Highly Sensitive Wisdom for Emotional Healing and Expressing Your Radiant Authentic Self will help you feel loved and empowered regardless of your external circumstances.
This book will appeal to Christians and all others who share a grace-filled theology. Be sure to read the foreword by Father Nigel Mumford. He’s one of the most delightful Episcopalian priests you’ll ever meet.
You’ll receive guidance to navigate your Hero’s Journey to your true Authentic
If you like intimate personal stories, self-reflection exercises and advice from a seasoned professional, then you'll love Benita A. Esposito’s inspirational memoir.
Scroll to the top of the page and click the “Buy Now” button to fast track your Hero's Journey to self-actualization today!
P.S. The Spanish eBook is El introvertido superdotado y altamente sensible on Amazon.com, Amazon.es and Amazon.mx.
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338 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 13, 2018
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October 18, 2018
Esposito nailed it—she gets me!
“Your high sensitivity is not a flaw.” My family has misunderstood me my entire life. They’ve always said I’m too sensitive and too emotional. I thought they were right—until I read this book.
Reading about my own qualities made me realize I’m not alone, there are others like me. And, being highly sensitive is a good thing! Her words spoke directly to me. I was nodding and talking back to the book as I read! Empowering and affirming too. Thank you, I needed to read this. If you’re highly sensitive, introverted, gifted—or all three (like me) this is a must read!
“Your high sensitivity is not a flaw.” My family has misunderstood me my entire life. They’ve always said I’m too sensitive and too emotional. I thought they were right—until I read this book.
Reading about my own qualities made me realize I’m not alone, there are others like me. And, being highly sensitive is a good thing! Her words spoke directly to me. I was nodding and talking back to the book as I read! Empowering and affirming too. Thank you, I needed to read this. If you’re highly sensitive, introverted, gifted—or all three (like me) this is a must read!
June 15, 2019
A deeply personal and relatable read, the author inspired me to better understand (and embrace, even!) my "highly sensitive" and "introverted" tendencies, and, having acknowledged that these tendencies will likely never change, I feel encouraged to, instead, address aspects of my life that I can change to better accommodate the person I am.
January 18, 2019
Thank you to Ms. Esposito for sharing her personal journey in overcoming emotional challenges in her life, in this book. She has shown Highly Sensitive Persons (although book was targeted towards Highly Sensitive Introverts) how to interpret life events with heightened self-awareness and greater insight into their unique worldview due to their inbuilt emotional sensitivity.
In a world which is beginning to tire of materialistic values and begin to recognise self-actualisation of an individual as a valuable life goal, we need more writers like Ms. Esposito to guide the way for individuals who may be feeling currently overwhelmed or adrift in their life direction, to recognise that they have a "voice" in how they shape their lives, and thereby make changes in their community using their special skillset which includes compassion for others and helping others to also heal emotionally.
In a world which is beginning to tire of materialistic values and begin to recognise self-actualisation of an individual as a valuable life goal, we need more writers like Ms. Esposito to guide the way for individuals who may be feeling currently overwhelmed or adrift in their life direction, to recognise that they have a "voice" in how they shape their lives, and thereby make changes in their community using their special skillset which includes compassion for others and helping others to also heal emotionally.
June 24, 2019
this book was fantastic it made me realize that i was not a freak of nature but a normal person, 20% of the population are highly sensitive people. it is a gift and not something that is a bad trait like i was taught all of my life. What a great book!
February 27, 2020
I am currently reading this book and as for now it is absolutely awesome. I’m thinking of starting a book study group with it. I’ve rated it 4 stars only because the book is so long. I believe it would benefit into broken down in a series of books or finding a way to cut it down altogether. But we wouldn’t want to miss any of it. Great Job Mrs. Esposito!!!
January 25, 2021
Not My Cup of Tea
Just not my cup of tea!
I found it very tedious reading and was not helpful for me. I usually read quickly, but not this one. Not saying it was bad. It just didn't appeal to me.
Just not my cup of tea!
I found it very tedious reading and was not helpful for me. I usually read quickly, but not this one. Not saying it was bad. It just didn't appeal to me.
October 13, 2025
I liked it:) but def requires a Christian understanding of the world to make sense of it! Grateful she wrote it - I get it!! Seems like there’s more idealistic creatives like me that need to create their own land!:)
April 5, 2019
Explained a lot of my childhood feelings. Nice to know I am not alone!
October 21, 2019
Good
Easy to read and follow guidance. I recomended it as a tool for self knowledge. Have a great journey. Thanks to the author.
Easy to read and follow guidance. I recomended it as a tool for self knowledge. Have a great journey. Thanks to the author.
March 18, 2021
Open and Honest
Benita was very open and honest about her life experiences. Many of her observations and insights resonated with me as a fellow highly sensitive person.
Benita was very open and honest about her life experiences. Many of her observations and insights resonated with me as a fellow highly sensitive person.
June 3, 2023
Not worth the time. No concrete information, the repetition of the same things in different words all the time
October 29, 2019
Was not what I was looking for. It was a long read.
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