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HSP Podcast: Intuitive Parenting: Emotional Regulation Strategies
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!
How to tell whether your child is sensitive to energy
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.
Sensitive Kid Behavior Series: Why does my child ignore me?
When your child ignores you, it could be due to a sensory, emotional or relational issue. Click here to learn more!
Interview: Illuminating the Path to Holistic Wellbeing
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.
How to Help your Sensitive Child Through Back-to-School Season
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!
Sensitive Kid Behavior Series: Why does my child smash into things all the time?
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.
What It’s Like for this “Older Mom”
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….
Sensitive Kid Behavior Series: Why does my child stare at people all the time?
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!
The Internal Work of Being a Highly Sensitive Parent
This guest post for the HSP Blog gives parents helpful tips on how to stay calm with our kids and why that’s important.
HSP Podcast: Helping Our Young HSP Adults Through Times of Transition
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.
Sensitive Kid Behavior Series: Why does my child hide?
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.
Please Play With Your Kids!
I believe there is a direct link between playing with our sensitive kids and world peace!
HSP Journey Articles
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.
HSP’s: Your Emotions Are Not Toxic!
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.
Helping Your Child Learn About and Manage Big Feelings
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.
Making Space to Support Your Highly Sensitive Child or Teen through Difficult Times
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…
Highly Sensitive Children and Parents: We Can Do Hard Things!
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.
Creating Spiritual Rituals for the Highly Sensitive Child
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.
When your Highly Sensitive Child Picks Up Challenging Behaviors from Other Kids
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.
Highly Sensitive Children and Parents: Understanding our Window of Tolerance
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.