In the world there are several types of people. Have you ever run across Highly Sensitive People (HSPs)? What are HSPs? Well, according to The Emerging Sensitive: A Guide for Finding Your Place in the World by Maria Hill, these are people like the author with a personality trait of soft, gentle and empathetic emotions. HSPs tend to absorb the energy of those around them and can be considered people-pleasers. Maria is on a quest to provide liberty to HSPs in The Emerging Sensitive because she wants HSPs to experience how to effectively live in today’s world.

I found it interesting that Maria penned The Emerging Sensitive because it is evident that this is a personality trait that needs to be understood. Maria provided Dr. Elaine Aron’s DOES Model in identifying HSPs: Depth of Processing is an intensity in understanding the energy of people and the world around them; Overstimulation - HSPs tend to absorb the energy around them whether negative or positive, leaving them depleted and burnt out; Emotional Reactivity causes HSPs to seek being in positive environments from their relationships to their careers because negativity takes a toll on them; Empathy HSPs experience a heightened desire to understand the people around them to be able to relate to them.

Sensing the subtle is experiencing an innate ability to be in touch with the world around them. For all of us to be able to live in today’s world in a more cohesive manner, get your copy of The Emerging Sensitive: A Guide for Finding Your Place in the World by Maria Hill.

The Emerging Sensitive by Maria Hill is a self-help and resource book for individuals who are HSP, (Highly Sensitive People). This empathetic, intuitive, deep processing personality type, whose abilities and talents are so often undervalued and ignored in a mainly non-HSP world, is explored and explained thoroughly. Chapters cover characteristics and underlying biological reasons for their way of responding to and interpreting the world, various research findings and their implications, and frameworks and strategies that can help HSPs understand themselves and find their place in the world. Suggestions for further reading and where to find a wealth of support and additional information are included in a very useful section at the end of the book.

Maria Hill’s book will be immensely useful and enlightening for anyone who knows or who suspects they may be HSP. The Emerging Sensitive draws on a wealth of well-researched information and it is written in a positive and empathetic style, with terms and theories explained. This will enable readers to begin to understand their innate traits, heal their past hurts, and learn how to function alongside others in a way that is authentic and true to themselves. I was fascinated by the author’s explanations of the way in which humans and the way our societies have been made up has evolved and changed and is changing still – and that movements away from materialistic and cultural systems to more egalitarian and inclusive societies will favor the contributions and abilities of HSPs. The sections on advice on self-care, developing self-assertion and turning sensitivities into assets are sensible, inspiring and doable, and should help HSPs begin to deal with the learned negative self-image, shame and lack of belief they may have spent their lives struggling with. Maria Hill understands the Highly Sensitive Person and the challenges they have always faced – and her hopeful book offers a way to heal emotionally and begin to become “who you were meant to be”. Recommended.