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.

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.

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!

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.

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…

One of the more challenging experiences sensitive parents have is when we are going through a hard time and we know our sensitive, empathic children are reacting to it. You may have noticed that your empathic child acts out more, argues more or just melts down more when you are going through your own stressful time.

At the root of most HSC episodes of anxiety is a feeling of being unsafe in some way. Understanding that our anxious children are feeling unsafe is an important part of helping them cope. If you understand that their body feels like it is in danger, then it follows that in order to reduce their anxiety the HSC first needs to feel safe in their body. Without this feeling of safety, no words of reassurance will really sink in and be believed.

Highly Sensitive Children are constantly picking up more information about their environment than those who aren’t highly sensitive. They deeply process small details that many people aren’t aware of, such as the various sights, sounds, and textures in a room, or the emotional states of other people. Because of this high sensitivity, it is especially important for highly sensitive children to have tools which support them in feeling strong and centered. Maintaining clear boundaries is a key area of practice to develop this feeling of strength and promote resilience in the face of stress.

Figuring out whether your child is an Internalizer or an Externalizer is often the first step in understanding whether they are highly sensitive.

Carolina was interviewed by Jenn Turnham, a personal coach for Highly Sensitive People who are Extroverts, based in Australia. Jenn recently launched an awareness week to support HSP-E’s and provide education to their loved ones. Carolina spoke with Jenn about the gifts and challenges of parenting when one is a Highly Sensitive Person, as well as provided information about Highly Sensitive kids & teens. The interview includes tips for recognizing when your child is an HSP, as well as practical suggestions for how best to support your Highly Sensitive youth.

Our youngest Highly Sensitive People (0-3 HSP’s) display their sensory and emotional sensitivities very early on. It is so important for parents to become aware of the ways their baby or toddler is highly sensitive, so that we may support them in feeling safe, regulated and truly accepted for who they are.

With the nurturing and attunement a highly sensitive parent provides, a highly sensitive child is much more likely to have high self-esteem, and to feel empowered to face the challenges of being an HSP navigating through the world…

This video shares a few strategies to help sensitive kids, teens and parents cope with different types of sensitivity: sensory, emotional and energetic sensitivity.

Carolina describes some of the ways psychic input may be perceived, and encourages kids and teens to feel empowered around these abilities.

Carolina reviews the three types of sensitivity that we focus on at Butterfly Grove: Sensory, Emotional and Energetic.