The Sensitive Ones: Healing and Understanding Your Child's Mental Health

"A must-read book for parenting a sensitive child. As a mother who has walked that same path, Heather Nardi's deeply moving account holds nothing back."—Jen Harrison, parenting coach and author of Just As You Are   "Stop trying to fix me." Years into her daughter Ellie's mental health journey, this statement stopped Heather Nardi in her tracks. Ellie was diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder and spent years in traditional treatment with prescription medications, therapy, and outpatient and inpatient facilities. But she wasn't getting better. And Heather intuitively knew there had to be another way. What Heather discovered was life-changing: her child's symptoms that were unsuccessfully treated as a disorder were—in fact—traits of an empath and highly sensitive person (HSP). And they were traits that Heather herself shared. Now a speaker and life coach known as "The Empath Mama," Heather Nardi is a fierce advocate for other families shifting the story from "disorder" to "trait." I