Coming June 2026
Trusting Your Highly Sensitive Self
Rebuild self-trust, embrace your unique gifts, and find balance as a highly sensitive person in a fast-paced, overstimulating world.
If you identify as a highly sensitive person (HSP), you may struggle with stress, sensory overwhelm, and intense emotions. When the world invalidates or rejects your sensitivity, this rejection can lead to feelings of shame, self-doubt, and alienation. Despite your inherent empathy, creativity, and intuition, you may feel confused and unsure of yourself. So, how can you embrace these gifts and thrive as your authentic self?
Trusting Your Highly Sensitive Self offers strategies based in Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) and parts work to help you reconnect with your core self, celebrate your intuition, rebuild self-trust, and reclaim wholeness. You’ll discover the innate brilliance of your parts to adapt to the challenges of an overwhelming world, move past internalized negative messages, and cultivate the resilience and confidence needed to live your best life.
This groundbreaking guide will help you:
- Work effectively with ‘inner critics’
- Navigate intense emotions with greater ease
- Overcome areas where you feel ‘stuck’
- Look inward for wisdom and wholeness
If you’re struggling to reconcile your inherent gifts of sensitivity with the demands of a high-stress world, the strengths-based, holistic, and non-pathologizing approach in this book can help you find clarity, peace of mind, and unwavering self-compassion.
Praise for the Book
What Others Are Saying
Advance praise for Trusting Your Highly Sensitive Self
This book is a genius pairing of what it’s like to be a highly sensitive person with a well-organized, super-clear presentation of how to use IFS to reconnect you with your natural strengths and vibrant energy. Personally, I found it a great reminder to use IFS methods to work through problems and realign goals with where my energy needs to go. A delightful counterpoint to more superficial, cognitive approaches. This one touches on the soul. Highly recommended.
Clinical Psychologist and New York Times bestselling author of Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents and Disentangling from Emotionally Immature People
With warmth, wisdom and clinical depth, Elizabeth Venart offers a beautiful companion for the healing journey of highly sensitive persons. With clarity and care she guides readers through the core tools of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy and how these tools can be applied to the unique wounds and gifts of sensitivity. Trusting Your Highly Sensitive Self is a generous, hopeful, practical, and meaningful resource for highly sensitive people and those who walk alongside them on the healing journey.
Grammy & Emmy recognized Singer-Songwriter, Poet, Author, and The Growing Edge Podcast Co-Host
For those of us who identify as highly sensitive people, having had to adapt to a world that invalidates our gifts, this book is our road map to reclaiming our creativity, intuition, and emotional depth. Elizabeth’s sensitivity and compassion, rooted in her clinical experience and the IFS model, helps us embrace, embody, and celebrate our gifts.
IFS Senior Trainer; founder of Somatic IFS; author and global trainer
If you’ve ever been told “you’re too sensitive” and have come to view your sensitivity as a weakness, Trusting Your Highly Sensitive Self will help you see it as a source of strength. Elizabeth offers an easy-to-follow roadmap to beautifully illuminate the intelligence and richness that comes with being highly sensitive, showing that sensitivity is not a flaw — but a profound source of wisdom and connection.
Author of Listening When Parts Speak: A Practical Guide to Healing with Internal Family Systems Therapy and Ancestor Wisdom
Additional Titles
Contributing Author
Chapters in multi-author volumes on trauma, IFS, and EMDR integration.
IFS-Informed EMDR: Creative and Collaborative Approaches
Chapter: “Highly Sensitive People and the Healing Presence of Self: IFS-EMDR Integration in Practice”
IFS-Informed EMDR: Creative and Collaborative Approaches is the first multi-author volume exploring the integration of Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).
Humanistic Perspectives on Contemporary Counseling Issues
Chapter: “Healing Trauma through Humanistic Connection,” with Jane Webber, Ph.D.
Published by Routledge in 2011, this edited volume gathers humanistic perspectives from counseling scholars and practitioners on contemporary issues in the field.
