In the same way a grounding wire gives an electrical device a safe way to discharge excess electricity, grounding our body’s energy stabilizes us and provides a safe pathway for aberrant energies to release from our field.

This blog shares my motivation for offering the unique combination of services available at Butterfly Grove for HSP’s.

Aren’t sure whether your child is “energy sensitive?” This blog describes the three most common ways my clients show that they are sensing energy that other’s may not be aware of.

Many parenting experts talk about the importance of trying to stay calm when your child is upset. This blog breaks down why that is important and gives a few tips on how to do it!

This blog talks about what happens to our energy when we are emotionally triggered and how grounding may support us in returning to a calm baseline.

When your child ignores you, it could be due to a sensory, emotional or relational issue. Click here to learn more!

In this interview I discuss how high sensitivity is defined, and how I support highly sensitive children, teens and families with an approach that combines clinical psychology and energy healing.

Is your child melting down more frequently and intensely since school started? Are they having trouble sleeping too? Are they holding it together at school and then falling apart and/or being more defiant once they are home with you? If so, you are not alone!

Understanding this behavior involves looking at your child’s reactions to various sensory and emotional input. At a basic level, crashing into things is an attempt by your child to regulate their body and emotions.

This article in Energy Magazine shares about my experience combining principles from psychotherapy with the energy healing modality of Intuition Medicine.

One of the best things about being an “older mom” is that I am seeing the benefits of all the work I have done on myself in my parenting….

Does your child just stare at people when they say hello rather than greeting them? Read this post to find out why and how you may work with them around it!

This guest post for the HSP Blog gives parents helpful tips on how to stay calm with our kids and why that’s important.

Join Carolina and Andrea Weber as we explore how to help our young HSP adults as they transition in life through major milestones such as finishing school, starting college, moving out of home, taking on their first jobs and navigating the world around them.

Kids hide when they are overwhelmed, overstimulated or triggered into intense emotions. Though it can be frustrating for the adults, IT IS AN ATTEMPT TO REGULATE their sensitive nervous system. If you try to get them to come out of hiding, i.e. to stop regulating themselves, you are risking an even bigger emotional reaction.

I believe there is a direct link between playing with our sensitive kids and world peace!

I am honored to have authored two articles for the HSP Journey website! Links are included for 1) Early Childhood Mental Health for HSP Parents and 2) Best Sleep Practices for the Highly Sensitive Teen.

Practices that preach about toxic emotions are especially harmful to HSP’s of all ages for this reason: if emotions are seen as a problem, and we as HSP’s tend to feel emotions more deeply, this easily translates into the message that HSP’s are a problem. We see this all the time when people tell HSP’s we are too sensitive, taking things too hard, over-reacting, etc.

One of our most important tasks as parents and caregivers of young children is to help them learn to understand, regulate and manage their emotions. This blog describes some of the most effective tools parents and other caregivers may employ when helping sensitive children with emotional reactivity.

Following up on my post about highly sensitive people doing hard things, I wanted to share a few more tips for parents to use when your highly sensitive child is navigating a challenge…