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Help Is On Its Way: A Memoir About Growing Up Sensitive |  | Author: Jenna Forrest
Publisher: Jenna Forrest
Category: Book
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Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 267056
Media: Paperback
Edition: Third
Pages: 244
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0979229812
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
EAN: 9780979229817
ASIN: 0979229812
Publication Date: March 30, 2008
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Product Description
Confused by her ability to feel other people's feelings, highly sensitive Jenna comforts herself by rescuing dead animals and escaping from elementary school. When her parents divorce, her mentally ill grandmother moves in and her sensitive uncle commits suicide. After the funeral, Jenna begins to read the messages coming in through her senses more clearly, as comforting guidance and premonitions about love, life, people and the planet. This is a decade-long journey of a girl whose nervous system is intricately developed, leading to sensory highs and emotional lows. Every secret thought and fear of this sensitive child (ages 6-17) is revealed here. Since 15-20% of kids and adults have the trait of high sensitivity, this perspective needs to be heard. The story addresses a sensitive child/teen's anxiety, sadness, courage, and urgent desire to do good things for the world. Edited by Emmy Award winner Molly McKitterick. Endorsed by Psychologist Elaine Aron and Author, Coach Eva Gregory.
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On Being Bright, Sensitive and Intense May 18, 2008
Paula Wilkes (Eugene, Oregon)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I was a bright, sensitive and intense child, so I can relate to the story told by Jenna Forrest in this powerful memoir about a child struggling to understand and live with her sensitivity and intensity. I run a center for gifted education, and I was looking for a book that could explain to parents and teachers what it is like for a child to be bright, sensitive and intense. Her story is so important that I am making it the book club choice for my fall course on the social and psychological foundations of gifted students. I highly recommend this book for anyone who is sensitive and intense or loves someone who is a highly sensitive person.
An excellent read!! June 5, 2007
G. Walter (Seattle, WA United States)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I thought this was a great book. So many times, it's so easy to remember childhood as an easy time when all anyone had to do was play and had no responsibilities. Often we forget that childhood is actually a
very tough, confusing time for anyone, especially a deeply emotional and sensitive kid like Jenna. In the book, Jenna Forrest vividly explores the fears, love, anxiety, and wonder of childhood not through the filter of an adult looking back, but through the wide-open eyes of a child. And she nails it. The sights and smells of the world of a child are so real and tangible you feel like you're really living in Jenna's skin. I recommend this book for anyone who was ever a child (and to anyone who ever wants to be a parent.) There are an amazing number of life lessons here, but the tone is never pandering or didactic. She just let's the world unfold and allows us an intimate peek into a time of life that most of us have boxed up and long forgotten.
For sensitive adults and parents of sensitive children September 4, 2008
Philip F. Young (Cary, NC)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Jenna Forrest shares a profound gift with us by allowing readers of her memoirs to peer into her soul. Her poetic prose amplifies the experience to the degree that we can feel the vinyl on the chairs and hear the scratch in LPs she describes in her journey through childhood. Her words give voice to our child's mind with authentic eloquence, beauty, humor, sadness, fear, and hope.
If you are sensitive person, the parent of a child who is highly sensitive, or in relationship with a sensitive person, then you should read this book for its many, many insights and honest reflection. The reading is not always easy because a child's truth, so well expressed in this book, tells us all how much help the world and the people around us need.
An unbelievably close look at a child's feelings June 22, 2007
Certified Master Dog Trainer & Author (Holly Springs, NC, USA)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
In this book, Jenna Forrest has really captured a child's view of life in a way that brings us, as adults, back to our own childhood feelings and memories with a clarity most of us have likely lost.
As a parent, it is refreshing to realize how our own children may perceive things that to adults may seem ordinary or important. I hope to take this perspective into my daily interactions with understanding my own children.
A true story, Forrest bravely bares her soul in a memoir that is sure to touch every reader. There were many inspirational messages throughout the book, discovered by Forrest as she matured. My favorite being one that we all can and should bring to our own adult lives... "Being closer to people. I think that's what freedom really is... Realizing with relief that you are at last ready to show people your eyes instead of your back." I think it takes great courage to do this and I know I strive each day to live in just that way.
A fantastic read. Great front cover, but I don't think the description on the back cover does justice to the depth of the story.
Get it. Read it. It was great.
Outstanding January 20, 2008
Jeanette L. Gerena (Royal Palm Beach, FL)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Excellent from the heart story of how different children respond to tough childhood situations. A great read for any parent as you can see the effects that every one of your actions has on your children.
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