Hypervigilant

Why You’re So Alert, Anxious and Afraid and –How to Reclaim Your Life

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With Hypervigilant, Dr Kim Sage addresses one of the most pernicious and far-ranging aspects of childhood trauma: hypervigilance. It is high time for an entire book devoted to a topic that underscores so much of our adult suffering—our vigilance to other people’s emotions in sacrifice of our own true nature. This important diagnosis and invaluable path to healing will truly help so many.
Dr Shefali Tsabary, New York Times bestselling author of The Conscious Parent

Where has this book been all my life? Hypervigilant is the book so many of us chronic over-thinkers and people-pleasers have needed. With deep clinical insight, Dr Kim Sage shows how the exhausting patterns we blame ourselves for often began as a child’s intelligent way of staying safe. This is a warm, genuinely useful book that gives so many people an attainable open path to healing.
Scott Barry Kaufman, PhD, author of Transcend and Rise Above

Brains can be quick to mistake discomfort for danger, even if you had an amazing childhood. Throw the uncertainty of life and the reality of trauma into the mix, and it’s no wonder so many of us feel stuck in loops of rumination and anxiety. Dr Kim Sage offers us a way forward with Hypervigilant. Grounded in both clinical and personal experience, this compassionate guide helps demystify why our brains stay on high alert and offers practical tools to help us move from surviving to thriving.
Britt Frank, LSCSW, SEP, author of The Science of Stuck and Align Your Mind

Dr Kim Sage’s Hypervigilant is the first book from a clinical psychologist to help us understand – and begin to heal from – hypervigilance as a way to protect ourselves when we feel blamed, abandoned or rejected. Blending data-driven research and personal stories in a compelling and empathetic way, Hypervigilant will help many recognise these patterns and finally find greater freedom in their most important relationships, including the relationship they have with themselves.
Dr Tracy Dalgleish, author of You, Your Husband, and His Mother and I Didn’t Sign Up for This