Courtney Marchesani - Four Gifts Of The Highly Sensitive Tell Me Your Story

Sensitives...if you are feeling marginalized or anxious, out-of-sync with the mainstream world, overwhelmed by outside stimulation, or that your gifts are undervalued by society and your peers, then Courtney Marchesani is your champion!

In her extraordinary new book from Hay House, Four Gifts of the Highly Sensitive: Embrace the Science of Sensitivity, Heal Anxiety and Relationships, and Connect Deeply With Your World, Marchesani de-stigmatizes the term "sensitive," illustrating how "sensitivity" is a powerful advantage, and provides a pathway to an effective balancing act between being highly aware and participating fully in the world without feeling the need to shut down or self-anesthetize to avoid pain, people or environmental stimulation.

Marchesani first became aware of her own gifts when her intuition prevented a fire in a Seattle brownstone. A "raw gut feeling" made her insist she and a friend return to the friend's apartment just in time to find a candle about to alight a bamboo shade.

Now a coach, teacher and health advocate with a master's degree in mind-body medicine, she has spent the last 20 years passionately exploring the research gap that exists between what medical science believes and what the gifted sensitive feels. She provides an enlightening ride through early to now-emerging science on sensitivity and the abilities of the highly sensitive. With interpretation of what this means for you today!

Courtney paints a clear picture of how to claim your "specialness," for yourself and the good of mankind. But also how to live with and adapt for your tendencies, so that you can embrace them and thrive at peak quality of life.

The most illuminating aspect of the book is her analysis of the four types of highly sensitive people-the four gifts:

Sensitive-empaths (feeling others, sensing physical responses, attuning to environmental stimuli, animals, plants and others)

Sensitive-intuitives (acquiring knowledge through higher consciousness)

Sensitive-visionaries (perceiving or constructing a future though inner vision)

Sensitive-expressives (expressing emotions and perceptions through artistic endeavors on any medium or performance platform)

Having worked with hundreds of "sensitive" clients and patients, she has clearly delineated the strengths and the drawbacks of having each of these types of gifts. She sites case histories from her experience and also denotes famous sensitives within each of these categories of distinction. More importantly, Courtney provides specific strategies for playing up your strengths and limiting, countering, overcoming or effectively transforming the "perceived" drawbacks. The second half of the Four Gifts of the Highly Sensitive provides an array of exercises and strategies for each of the specific sensitive-types to adapt in a world that may cause sensory overload.

For years, sensitives have lived with the fear of being perceived crazy, hiding their gifts, withdrawing from the world or just shutting down emotionally to avoid judgement by others, anticipation of pain, or sensory overwhelm. With Four Gifts of the Highly Sensitive the shame is lifted. Hope is restored. The highly sensitive can be returned to the rightful place as real superheroes in the cosmic sense. And Courtney, of course, indicates that all of us have these abilities, but the highly sensitive currently have them to a higher degree-whether conscious of them or not!

Listen to Courtney on Podcasts and Learn More About Your Gifts of Sensitivity:
Player, FM: Inspired Conversations with Linda Joy
BITEradio: Four Gifts with Robert Sharpe
The Social Psychic with Jason Zuk
Aspire with Osha
Sensitive People: Their Pain and Power
Intuitive Pathways with Paul O'Brien