The Introvert Advantage - Book Review

By Sarah Dolliver

"...Nothing is wrong with them. They are just introverted."[page 10]

So many introverts have wished for the freedom to understand our type, holding our innate traits in positive regard. Reading this book can do that for you.

From the very first pages, you find an author who understands what it's like to be introverted and what you've lived through: the sense of feeling different and left out, the social awkwardness, the pursuit of peaceful environments or not trusting your truest self. Marti Olsen Laney's own experience and training in her field allow her to express what so many have felt--and to help all of us understand it on a new level.

At the core of this volume is the message that introverts have hard-wired differences that are our assets. We're born to be different, and that's not a bad thing.
Your insights start early on with recognition that others are like you and have had similar experiences. It continues as she explains how an introvert's brain is not the same as an extrovert's brain and why we often stall in our mental processing when we are over stimulated. It's simply how our brain works! What a relief! Even stopping here gives some relief.

But to continue on with this book is to find more understanding about why you are the way you are...and what you can do about it. She discusses how to navigate successfully in an extroverted world. She continues with how to create the "just right" life for you by setting your pacing, priorities and parameters (or boundaries), followed by how to nurture yourself and put yourself out into the world with fewer concerns.

On the cover of the book, just over the image of a broken eggshell are the words "Making the Most of Your Hidden Strengths." Within its pages, this book elicits so many strengths any introvert can rely on. Here are a few of them:

• Intelligence



• Creativity



• Imagination



• Self-managing



• Thoughtfulness



• Respectful of others



• Depth of knowledge and experience

There's good reason for those who are not introverted to read this book also. Everyone knows an introvert and understanding their essential nature can help others live and work better with introverts. My husband read this book after I did and it released him from some of his limiting beliefs, such as when I didn't want to go out, he felt he had to stay home with me. Now he realizes that by going out, he's often doing both of us a favor.

What you get from delving into this work is a prevailing feeling of self-acceptance. You easily see that there are others like you and there are underlying biological reasons for the way you respond to life and its experiences. It's a relief to feel that you are a "normal" introvert.

Sarah Dolliver is the Founder of InnerVantage, the online community for inner-directed individuals - behaviorally defined as those who focus inward to restore. She serves as an empowering catalyst, insightful mentor and wholehearted supporter through the safe spaces she creates for clients to find the freedom to embrace and trust their truest self.

Her vision for InnerVantage is to remove the stigma from being introverted or highly sensitive (HSP) to allow these uniquely gifted individuals to lead fulfilling lives that bring their distinct contributions to the world. Sarah knows that when one embraces their inner-directed traits as their advantage, life transforms to bring comfort, ease and joy.

The strength of her work comes from her distinctive 4-Step Self-Generating Cycle that eases personal growth while tapping into your Natural Edge gifts, talents and strengths. By using these two tools, each client she works with is guided to find their own wisdom and choose what is naturally best for them.

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