"A shortest route to changing yourself. It is divided into a manga part and a commentary part, which makes it easy to understand. Working through the seven stages, you look back on your relationships with your parents and family, and on your school memories from adolescence, and you realize that things that seemed trivial have been lodged deep in your heart all along, strongly shaping the way you think."
——Reader review (Amazon Japan, 5 stars)

"Not only useful for yourself, it also seems helpful when you want to encourage a friend with low self-esteem. What stayed with me was the method for knowing your own worth: list what the admirable people around you have in common, and those traits are, in fact, your own strengths too."
——Reader review (Amazon Japan, 4 stars)

★ High sensitivity is not a flaw, it is a gift. Seven days of manga-guided practice to turn "always worrying about others" into "affirming yourself."
★ Its author, Hiroyuki Nemoto, is a veteran counselor in Japan: over 15,000 counseling sessions, more than 100 seminars a year, and over 30 books to his name.
★ The book breaks self-help into a 7-day step-by-step practice: from turning your attention back to your present self, to reviewing your past and family relationships, and finally turning sensitivity into a strength. Manga scenes and column notes make it easy to read and easy to follow.
★ This book belongs to the bestselling "Learn Through Manga" series, which has sold over 80,000 copies. Its text edition has long held a place on Amazon Japan's self-help bestseller list, and the Traditional Chinese edition is endorsed by four counselors: Chou Chih-chien, Hung Chung-ching, Chen Chih-heng, and Liu Chung-pin.
★ If you always read other people's faces, habitually put yourself down, or loved The Highly Sensitive Person and want a book you can actually practice, this 7-day guide is for you.

High sensitivity is not a flaw, it is a gift.

Do you often find yourself like this? A single casual remark from someone can keep you turning it over for a long time; after meeting people, you need time alone to recover; you care a great deal about how others see you, yet cannot speak up about what you think; and "I'll just put up with it, as long as I do" has become a habit. This is not "overthinking," and it is not being "fragile." Psychology calls this trait of being especially alert to outside stimuli "high sensitivity" (HSP). It tires you easily, and it also makes you more delicate and more empathetic than most people.

The author, Hiroyuki Nemoto, is a veteran counselor in Japan who has long worked with people who are "too sensitive." In his view, people with low self-esteem are not "the problem"; they are, in fact, "people of remarkable talent, with nothing but possibility," who simply tend to notice their shortcomings first. As self-esteem is raised little by little, the very things once seen as weaknesses begin to shine one by one.

The book's 7-day practice is presented by the manga artist Emiko Morishita through manga scenes and column notes:
DAY 1 Turn your attention to your present self;
DAY 2 Re-examine your past;
DAY 3 Re-examine your past family relationships;
DAY 4 Raise your self-esteem;
DAY 5 Build relationships at your own pace;
DAY 6 Turn sensitivity into a strength;
DAY 7 Fulfill what you truly want to do.

The exercises are concrete and doable. They require no background in psychology and no large blocks of time: read a little and follow along a little each day. For readers who are long-term overthinkers, who care too much about others' opinions, and who want to raise their self-esteem, this is a gentle, practical, low-threshold manga introduction.

Hiroyuki Nemoto (Original text)
Born in 1972 in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan. In 1997 he began studying under Junji Hira, head of Kobe Mental Service; in 2000 he became a professional counselor, with over 15,000 counseling sessions to date; from 2003 he has given more than 100 lectures and seminars a year; in 2015 he went independent, working as a freelance counselor, lecturer, and writer, and now holds counseling and lectures mainly in Tokyo, Osaka, and online; in 2019 he launched a "disciple system" to train those who follow.
He has written over 30 books, contributes regularly to magazines such as anan, CLASSY., LEE, and BiST, and to newspapers such as Yomiuri Shimbun and Mainichi Shimbun, and has appeared many times on TV and radio.
He has long focused on two themes, "partnership" and "life's work," dealing with matters ranging from love, marriage, and workplace relationships to family and child-rearing, and is known for his clear and distinctive analytical eye and his concrete, workable solutions.
Representative work: The Highly Sensitive Person's 7-Day Method to Raise Self-Esteem, and others.

Emiko Morishita (Manga / Illustration)
Illustrator and manga artist, born in Shizuoka. Besides comic essays, she draws illustrations and manga for books, advertising, and magazines.
Representative works: Since I Turned 40, Tamagoyaki Again Today, and the Do It Alone series, among others.

DAY 1 Turn your attention to the present self
DAY 2 Re-examine your past
DAY 3 Re-examine your past family relationships
DAY 4 Raise your self-esteem
DAY 5 Build relationships at your own pace
DAY 6 Turn sensitivity into a strength
DAY 7 Fulfill what you truly want to do