Join Carolina and children's book author Carol Huckle inside one of our Intuitive Parenting events in the Sensitive Empowerment Community! This quarterly gathering of sensitive parents has a different focus each time, and this one was a Q&A in which a theme emerged around Emotional Regulation. Normally Intuitive Parenting events are not recorded, but this was a special episode for the HSP podcast!

We have a puppy! I have been amazed at how much of my experience as a highly sensitive person, as well as my clinical training in working with highly sensitive kids, have prepared me to raise this wonderous creature.  Who knew there would be so many parallels?!  This blog shares some of the similarities I have observed across three main areas: dysregulation, moods and skills.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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 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…

We may find things to be hard that non-HSP’s feel are easy, and we feel the stress of going through hard things more intensely….Therefore…we need extra self-care and self-compassion, as well as plenty of tools to face our daily challenges.

Rituals help highly sensitive children feel they are part of something larger than themselves, they help them feel like they belong to their people and community, and they help them find meaning and purpose.

Many of the highly sensitive children I work with are exceptionally vulnerable to the influence of other people. It is almost as though they are porous, to the point that they may even seem to morph into whomever they spend time with.

In my infant mental health training I learned about the concept of a “window of tolerance.” The basic idea is that we all have a range of experiences and sensations we may be able to tolerate in a given day, and that this range may shrink or expand depending on a variety of factors.