Help Is On Its Way: A Memoir About Growing Up Sensitive (Paperback)

~ Jenna Forrest (Author)
Key Phrases: milk box, Cinda Sue, Uncle Jack, Art Club (more...)

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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.

About the Author

Jenna Forrest has been a committed student of higher consciousness since 2004. She published her memoir Help Is On Its Way to introduce the topic of high sensitivity to mainstream audiences. Today, she runs her own business as a writer and success consultant. She offers interviews and writes articles to help people who want to empower and transcend their high sensitivity.

Product Details

• Paperback: 244 pages
• Publisher: Jenna Forrest; Third edition (March 20, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0979229812
• ISBN-13: 978-0979229817
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #441,559 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars On Being Bright, Sensitive and Intense, May 18, 2008

By	Paula Wilkes (Eugene, Oregon) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent read!!, June 5, 2007

By	G. Walter (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For sensitive adults and parents of sensitive children, September 3, 2008

By	Philip F. Young (Cary, NC) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.