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

How to Reclaim Your Power from Narcissists and Other Manipulators

By: Shahida Arabi MA

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

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

COVERS A LOT OF OPTIONS & DEFENSES!

HSP here, with crippling anxiety & depression. Highly recommend to help navigate all relationships.. family, business, friendships, etc. toxic and non-toxic. Also helpful in recognizing your own toxic patterns.

Illuminating

As a HSP going thru a 20-years marriage with what i realized 2 years after the divorce to be a narcissist, this book brought more clarity and understanding! I plan on re-listening so i can absolutely nail down all the good info! Thank you Shahida Arabi💜

This is more of a guide

I’m not really enjoying this book. Not what I expected. I thought it would be a deeper dive into the why but it’s more of a guide on how to get out of a relationship would’ve toxic partner. 

Needed information

I wish everyone could read this book. It was spot on. Thanks for sharing your story too.

Fantastic book, I highly recommend it!!!

I’m pretty close to having read every book on narcissism ever written and I was hesitant to read this because I was sure I couldn’t learn anything new but this book was incredibly helpful and powerful in reminding me of things I’ve forgotten or have minimized. This author really knows narcissism and how to not only protect yourself but more importantly how to live a more free, happy loving life free of narcissistic people. Shahida’s books are a gift to humanity and I’m grateful to have just completed this one… I will be listening to it again!