Healing the Sensitive Heart: How to Stop Getting Hurt, Build Your Inner Strength, and Find the Love You Deserve

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Summary: Excellent Book!
Review: As a therapist myself, I am on the look-out for books that would be helpful to my clients. "Healing the Sensitive Heart" is an outstanding resource! Written with clarity, compassion, deep respect for people, and belief in their capacity to change and grow, it resonates with authenticity. It provides an excellent analysis of the inner life and behaviours of the "sensitive-hearted", and clear, effective strategies for restoring balance and achieving a healthy relationship with self and others.
I highly recommend this book!

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Summary: Excellent Book!
Review: As a therapist myself, I am on the look-out for books that would be helpful to my clients. "Healing the Sensitive Heart" is an outstanding resource! Written with clarity, compassion, deep respect for people, and belief in their capacity to change and grow, it resonates with authenticity. It provides an excellent analysis of the inner life and behaviours of the "sensitive-hearted", and clear, effective strategies for restoring balance and achieving a healthy relationship with self and others.
I highly recommend this book!

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Summary: This is not just for those with a Sensitive Heart.
Review: Healing the Sensitive Heart: How to stop getting hurt, build your inner strength, and find the love you deserve by Debra Mandel, Ph.D.

I thought I would be the worst candidate to get something out of reading this book. I am not one of the sensitive hearted people that Dr. Mandel is referring to, but there are many such people in my life. I may be a magnet for sensitive hearted people. I learned from reading this book that I can help my sensitive hearted friends.

I have friends and relatives whose sensitive hearts have kept them trapped in a fantasy world. They sell themselves short because they have been "taught" that their own feelings do not matter-they exist to serve the will of their parents or some other childhood character. Dr. Mandel shows a path that sensitive-hearted people can follow to become Thrivers. Thrivers enjoy life and give back to the world more than they take. Thrivers have a balance between serving their own needs and responding to the legitimate needs of others.

I recommend this book for the happy soul mates and friends of sensitive hearted people. We can benefit when we understand the likely genesis and resolution of behaviors that are so odd to those of us without sensitive hearts. Thank you Dr. Debra.

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Summary: An open and honest exploration to help one thrive
Review: I found reading Healing the Sensitive Heart an insightful and pragmatic exploration to help me in understanding how childhood wounds can be transformed into strengths and allow us to thrive in relationships with ourself and with others. This excellent book is carefully written with a deep appreciation for the wounds that each of us carry and a step-by-step approach that isn't preachy or too clinical. It is one of the most sensitvely written and humanistic books I have read on the subject. The book promotes awareness that can lead to compassion and real life changes for anyone open to exploring their past and how it intersects with their present. The book is written with a holistic perspective that helps people intergrate not only psychological issues but the physical and spiritual aspects of onself as well. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is not only interested in healing the past but in creating a future with hope and dignity.

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Summary: healing the sensitive heart
Review: I had started reading Dr. Phils book "self Matters" and didn't finish it. Healing the Sensitive Heart is much easier to read, I couldn't put it down! Dr. Mandel gives examples of what she is talking about and how these circumstances may relate to you. I saw myself over and over through out the pages in ways that I would have never imagined without this book. The exercises are simple and clear. She explains in laymens terms how we become the person we are today and how to change. I'm on my way to healing the sensitive heart that I didn't even realize I had. I recomend this book to anyone that would like to improve their relationship with themselves and or others.

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Summary: healing the sensitive heart
Review: I had started reading Dr. Phils book "self Matters" and didn't finish it. Healing the Sensitive Heart is much easier to read, I couldn't put it down! Dr. Mandel gives examples of what she is talking about and how these circumstances may relate to you. I saw myself over and over through out the pages in ways that I would have never imagined without this book. The exercises are simple and clear. She explains in laymens terms how we become the person we are today and how to change. I'm on my way to healing the sensitive heart that I didn't even realize I had. I recomend this book to anyone that would like to improve their relationship with themselves and or others.

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Summary: This book combined with ?Psychic Gifts? can change your Life
Review: I really liked this book. I am an avid reader and would recommend adding this book to your must read list. Another book that really impressed me is Psychic Gifts in the Christian Life - Tools to Connect, by Tiffany Snow, pub. 2003. In this time of increasing awareness for the need to help our relationships, workplace, family, self and environment, these two books are at the forefront of giving us the tools to do so - not only by positive reinforcements, but in the case of "Psychic Gifts," showing we have a Divine birthright to access the supernatural in our lives, and how to tap into that. I encourage you to Keep Reading, apply what you learn, and be a force for good in your part of the world.

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Summary: Healing the Wounds that Bind Us
Review: So many of us are damaged in childhood, many times carrying around unresolved baggage that keeps us stuck and unable to live our best lives. This delightful and insightful book helps us understand what has molded us into who we are, and then gives us the tools to move towards a more rewarding and fulfilling life. 'Healing the Sensitive Heart' compassionately takes us on a journey of a millions miles by encouraging us not to be afraid of taking the first step.

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Summary: Good advice.
Review: This book is an excellent read for those of us who continually make stupid relationship decisions. Why do I let myself fall for the same type of person over and over when I know it will only lead to emotional pain for me? This book tells us so much about the ways of getting into these kinds of patterns, how to recognize them, and then how to move on. Everyone should give this book a try, even if you think you've never had any problems.