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.

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.

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.

Research has shown that natural and green environments support increased concentration and improved motor coordination in young children (Wells, 2000: NY State College of Human Ecology)…

Bigger picture transitions are always influencing a highly sensitive youth’s experience of other transitions which may be less significant. Essentially the more transitions the highly sensitive child or teen is going through at any given time, the smaller their window of tolerance will be for any transition, and the more escalated any problematic symptoms or behaviors may be.

This blog discusses the intense emotions of highly sensitive children and teens, and gives parents suggestions about how to support them with their “big feelings.”

Listen to Carolina talk about what it’s like to be an empath and provide strategies to cope.