-Addresses a popular therapeutic topic: This book covers issues having to do with the nervous system and sensitivities-a very popular subject being covered in multiple areas of wellness and therapeutic communities today.

-Normalizes a much-talked-about "mystery": Empathic sensitivity is not a "gift" or a "power," though that's often how it is framed as a consolation to sensitive persons struggling with their environment; there are many people today, sensitive or not, that have had encounters with their intuitive nature and would like permission to own it-to normalize this aspect of reality.

-Cross-genre appeal: This field guide offers a blend of spirituality and practical self-help/self-development-a $10 billion market.