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Whether you're curious about my approach or new to Intuitive Guidance Coaching altogether, you've come to the right place. These resources are meant to be an introductory point for you on your journey toward transformation, as well as a place where I may curate answers to common questions or offer reflections from my Intuitive Guidance Coaching practice. To discuss any of these topics more fully or to explore my services, book a discovery call today!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Walking the Line: Finding the Balance Between Pushing and Over-Indulging our Sensitive Kids

When our highly sensitive children express stress reactions we may wonder, “Am I pushing my kid too hard?” or, “Is she just too sensitive to manage this?” As caring, well-meaning parents, we obviously don’t want to cause our children any harm…

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Highly Sensitive Children & Teens: Challenges with Transitions

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.

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Things your Empathic Child Needs to Know when YOU are Having a Hard Time

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.

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