Growing Up Sensitive: Why Self-Love Matters More Than Anything
If you’ve ever watched your child’s heart break over something small, like a misconstrued comment, a noisy gym hall, a scraped knee that won’t stop hurting, you know that being…
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How Families Can Build Simple Self-Care Habits for Lasting Wellness
Self-care is something featured on this blog time and time again, but today’s guest post, written by Catherine Workman, approaches the topic from a different angle, namely family self-care. Catherine…
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The Simple Tool That Helps Highly Sensitive Kids Handle Big Emotions
If you’re raising a highly sensitive child (HSC), you already know this – your child feels everything deeply. The scratchy label in their shirt.The tone of your voice. Whether intentional or not.The…
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Quiet Strength: Celebrating Highly Sensitive Introverts on World Introvert Day
Around 70% of highly sensitive people are also introverts. And today, World Introvert Day, provides a platform to appreciate and share understanding about what an introvert is and needs. Understanding…
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What the Science Is Confirming About HSPs (including Kids)
If you’re raising a highly sensitive child (HSC), you probably don’t need a research paper to tell you that your child feels things deeply. You see it when a small disappointment…
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How to Help Sensitive Children Overcome the Stigma of Being Different
I am delighted to share a guest post written by psychiatrist and author Judith Orloff, adapted from The Highly Sensitive Rabbit by Judith Orloff, MD and Jennifer Adams. Many sensitive children grow…
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Prime Deals for Highly Sensitives
Prime Deals are currently on (last day today) and so I wanted to highlight some tools that are fabulous for highly sensitives. These are items that have been listed in…
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How to Make a Calm Down Kit to Help Your Highly Sensitive Child
Each of my sons had a calm down kit in their bedroom when they were younger, or a bucket box as we called it. Each calm down kit is full…
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The Highly Sensitive Rabbit – A Tale for Young Highly Sensitives
It’s not often that I come across a children’s book that so beautifully captures the inner world of a highly sensitive, but The Highly Sensitive Rabbit does just that. Written…
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Supporting a Highly Sensitive Young Adult Heading to College
My eldest son is off to college. The time has come. However, in our case, he’s not leaving home. Yet. It’s a train ride away. A significant train ride, but…
