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The Highly Sensitive Person’s Guide to Dealing with Toxic People

How to Reclaim Your Power from Narcissists and Other Manipulators

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The Highly Sensitive Person’s Guide to Dealing with Toxic People

By: Shahida Arabi MA
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
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If you're a highly sensitive person, or identify as an "empath", you may feel easily overwhelmed by the world around you, suffer from "people-pleasing", experience extreme anxiety or stress in times of conflict, or even take on the emotions of others. Due to your naturally giving nature, you may also be a target for narcissists and self-centered individuals who seek to exploit others for their own gain. So, how can you protect yourself?

In The Highly Sensitive Person's Guide to Dealing with Toxic People, you'll learn evidence-based skills grounded in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to help you recognize and shut down the common manipulation tactics used by toxic people, such as gaslighting, stonewalling, projection, covert put-downs, and love bombing. You'll also discover targeted tips to protect yourself from the five main types of toxic people: garden-variety boundary-steppers; crazymakers and attention-seekers; emotional vampires; narcissists; and sociopaths and psychopaths.

Finally, you'll learn how to heal from toxic or narcissistic abuse, and find strategies for establishing healthy boundaries and a strong sense of self. If you're an HSP who is ready to take a stand against the toxic people in your life, this book has everything you need to survive and thrive.

©2020 Shahida Arabi (P)2021 Tantor
Conflict Resolution Emotions Personality Disorders Psychology Self-Esteem Mental Health Narcissism Inspiring Young Adult

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Loved it!! I will definitely listen to this again!

Beautifully written and incredibly accurate. This book has opened my eyes to the benefits of being a highly sensitive person and dealing with toxic people. My highly sensitive traits are not a flaw, but an asset.

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Amazing and scary

Life changing for me. I am truly grateful to come across this book. Thank you from the bottom of my heart

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I really enjoyed this book. The information is helpful for future narcissist endeavours. Some things I’ve been doing for awhile and some new tips to take on. The only thing that I had to get used to was the voice. As an HSP myself I think there are a few letters that I was cringing while listening. Just try to get through it though because it’s worth the listen.

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Highly recommend

So greatful to have come across this title. It helped validate everything I had gone through and understand my experiences with new meaning. The practical tools and resources are invaluable. Thanks for the care and guide you have given us hsp victims.

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Very informative!

Absolutely loved this book, coming out of a relationship it has helped me safely navigate my communication and self care.

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So spot on

Very good and I’ve already recommended it to others. It’s like the book was written for my exact circumstances.

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Really useful information

This book is full of practical advice on how to manage the covert narcissist- the lady narrating was hard to listen to- her voice detracted from the content. Great book overall

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I’ve listened to this twice already and may yet listen again. I’ve found it very helpful in observing and recognising both the behaviours of others and of myself. The narration was somewhat stilted but after a while I found the narrator’s voice quite soothing so overall was very happy to listen.

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Very helpful!!!

I love it! And has been really helpful! I highly recommend it! I wish I had listened it earlier!

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This wasn't helpful for me. Stuck with it until chapter 6. Narrator's style is nice but it is very poorly structured which makes it hard to pick out any strategies to apply in real life. Very focussed on romantic relationships whereas I was looking for something that would apply to work, social, family etc. Keeps circling back to extreme examples and importance of personal safety, sure this is important but I was looking for more everyday strategies I could actually use without wading through repetitive warnings and irrelevant examples.

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