
The Gift of Intensity
How to Win at Life and Love as a Highly Sensitive and Emotionally Intense Person
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Nathalie Buscombe
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Imi Lo
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Embrace the gift of your intense emotions and the opportunities that will follow.
This is an audiobook about being successful, fulfilled and happy in a world in which you don't always feel you fit in. Many people are emotionally sensitive and intense, and while these characteristics need not limit us, they often hold us back from expressing ourselves, being heard and taking charge of our life, love and work. This audiobook is a complete guide that shows sensitive and intense people how to navigate, successfully and predictably, the fundamental relationships that make up their lives - demonstrating along the way that intense feelings are a gift not a curse.
Grounded in the author's extensive clinical and personal experience, the audiobook advises listeners on challenges such as low self-esteem, family conflicts, loneliness, complex work challenges and times of emotional crisis. Listeners are given actionable steps to change their lives.
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- Anonymous User
- 11-30-21
Embrace the intense ones
Makes so much sense. Very empowering. Permission to live authentically and without an apology. Second book I have read of Imi Lo. Thank you
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- 12-09-21
Very helpful
I found this book to be thoughtful, practical, and written with great understanding and compassion. Thank you!
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