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Parenting Your Sensitive Child

Parenting a highly sensitive child can feel overwhelming, and all the parenting books in the world can only get you so far if your head and your heart are out of alignment with your child"s. Each week life coach Julia McGarey shares her experience of high sensitivity and guides you through the paradigm shifts needed to be the parent your sensitive child needs. Together we can create a new parenting paradigm. Sign up for the lifeline, a weekly-ish email for parents, at

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Ep. #96: What's stopping you from saying no?

Parenting Your Sensitive Child ·

2023/05/10

You may have noticed that I didn't share a podcast last week.I was all set to create an episode about identifying your forced yeses - the situations where you are saying yes, adding things to your to-do list, holding yourself to your word because you feel like you're supposed to, when it actually isn't an ESSENTIAL TASK, you've just built it up to be, and practicing saying no instead, and my body sent me a loud and clear message to listen to my own advice.I literally had my computer

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8:30

Ep. #95: Removing the Jellyfish

Parenting Your Sensitive Child ·

2023/04/26

I recently saw a NeuroWild comic about screen time as a regulation tool. It shows a cat skimming across a body of water in a rowboat, and a mouse treading water and being surrounded by jellyfish. I'll put a link in the show notes, but the gist of it was this: everyone experiences the world differently. For some people, the outside world is overwhelming and exhausting, and screens offer an opportunity to stop treading water and disengage from the jellyfish.They also offer some examples of how to

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9:50

Ep. #94: Lessons from Yoga

Parenting Your Sensitive Child ·

2023/04/19

This episode focuses on some of the long-term lessons I've taken from my yoga practice and been able to apply to my life as a parent and just life in general.I'm going to focus on four key take-aways, and just know that these are the ones that came to me quickly and easily. Yoga has had a huge impact on my life, it definitely extends beyond these four points. But these really are life lessons, not just yoga lessons, and you don't need to have a yoga practice to benefit from hearing

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22:26

Ep. #93: Overexcitabilities and Gifted Children

Parenting Your Sensitive Child ·

2023/04/12

If you've been listening to the podcast for a while, you might have heard me talk a little bit about gifted kids and the relationship between being gifted and being highly sensitive.I like to acknowledge as I enter into any conversation about giftedness that, yes, the term can be off-putting. But I stick with it because most people understand what it means, and because I believe it's important to recognize giftedness as a form of neurodiversity. Despite the fact that historically many gifted

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11:19

Ep. #92: With Instead of For

Parenting Your Sensitive Child ·

2023/04/05

In this episode we're talking about one of the things that can happen when you start to invite your child into the decision-making process, when you start to build a more collaborative relationship with them.There is so much potential for connection when you make this leap to collaborating with your child. There's also huge potential for things to get way, way easier for your family.It's possible.But even when you can see that possibility, it's not always easy.We are so conditioned

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8:38

Ep. #91: Puppies and Hedgehogs

Parenting Your Sensitive Child ·

2023/03/29

I have a simple but powerful metaphor I want to share with you this week. It's particularly relevant if you've ever felt like your child was manipulating you, picking on you, or even bullying you. In other words, if your child knows how to push your most painful buttons and it seems like they use that to try to get their own way.How we view triggering behavior in children, especially when it seems like they are being deliberately hurtful, makes a huge difference in how we react to that

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8:36

Ep. #90: What does a maxed-out nervous system look...

Parenting Your Sensitive Child ·

2023/03/22

We had quite a weekend of cookie booths and birthday parties, and I want to share a little bit about our experience in this episode and lead into the question in the episode title, and that's what does a maxed-out nervous system look like for your child?What are your child's tell-tale signs? How do you know if they are feeling something big under the surface? How do you know if their nervous system is maxed-out? I've found it to be so helpful to know what it looks like from the outside

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8:32

Ep. #89: Treat it like it's broken

Parenting Your Sensitive Child ·

2023/03/15

It is so easy, as parents, to rush our kids. And when they're resistant? Most often, our first impulse is to stand firm. Push them along.They're fighting you on leaving the house? You've got to insist. You've got to make them.Right?This episode offers an alternate take on how we can handle our children's resistance when it seems like they're making a big deal out of nothing. It's powerful because when you adopt this approach, it validates your child's reality. Even if it seems like it's not a big

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15:55

Ep. #88: The Silly Putty Story

Parenting Your Sensitive Child ·

2023/03/08

This is a story about an emotional weekend, some silly putty, and what personal growth as a parent can look like.This is a story about staying present, grounded, and calm, even when they are overwhelmed by emotion.This is the result I hope to create in my life, over and over again, and it is the result I help my clients create, too.I am a better parent because of this work, 100%.And if you feel overwhelmed by their emotions or like you're always walking on eggshells... if your initial reaction is to

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11:48

Ep. #87: Riding the Waves

Parenting Your Sensitive Child ·

2023/03/01

This week we're going to talk about riding the waves instead of fighting them.Life is wavy. It's part of the human experience. We all have highs and lows, good days and bad days, positive and negative emotions.This is normal and we don't need to change it.But I want to share something that I observe over and over again - in myself, my clients, the people around me - and that's that when we feel challenged, when life feels hard, or we feel anxious a lot of the time, those feelings can become

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11:43

Ep. #86: Sometimes You're Not Overreacting

Parenting Your Sensitive Child ·

2023/02/22

This week on the podcast, I want to recognize there are certain situations in which it is absolutely normal to have an elevated reaction to what you're child is doing. If they are running towards a busy street, for example, or riding their bike and seem oblivious to the stop sign that's right in front of them. Their bodily safety is at risk, and as a parent, that's scary. It is totally normal to "overreact" in those situations. The key is in how you recover and how you repair with your child, and

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16:04

Ep #85: Obstacles to Seeking Help

Parenting Your Sensitive Child ·

2023/02/15

Asking for help is a skill that, for many of us, has to be developed. Especially if you are someone who did well in school, was able to fly under the radar and complete the assignments adequately without needing to ask questions or get help from the teacher. For many of us, there is an internalized belief that we should be able to figure it out on our own, especially when it's something as seemingly natural as being a parent. At the same time, there's a pervasive cultural belief that parenting is

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18:54

Ep. #84: Parenting Rules

Parenting Your Sensitive Child ·

2023/02/08

There's something so alluring about having rules to guide you. If you know the rules, all you have to do is follow them. So when things feel chaotic, it might seem like you just haven't found the right rules yet.This might be true.BUTThe rules are much simpler than we've been led to believe, and they probably aren't what you think they are.They aren't actually about screen time or rewards or finding the right system.They aren't locked up behind a fancy course.In this episode, we take a look at a

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Ep. #83: How Your Marriage and Kids Can Thrive When...

Parenting Your Sensitive Child ·

2023/02/01

This week I'm sharing an interview I did with Hannah Brooks for her podcast, Highly Sensitive, Happily Married. Hannah interviewed me two years ago, and we were both excited to circle back to it and share it with you here!In this episode, we talk about how we sensitive parents can raise healthy happy kids AND have great marriages at the same time. Although it can often feel like a great marriage and happy children are mutually exclusive, they actually can go hand in hand. Tune in to learn how to

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Ep. #82: Working With Your Sensitivity

Parenting Your Sensitive Child ·

2023/01/25

It is not uncommon for parents that I work with to realize that their child might be highly sensitive, look into it a little bit more, and then realize that they might be highly sensitive, too.This might mean that you are easily overwhelmed by the amount of activity and noise in your house, especially when you are trying to do something like cook dinner.It might mean that when your child has a hard day or is experiencing big emotions, you feel it deeply, too.It might mean that you find yourself

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9:08

Ep. #81: The Value of a Safe Space

Parenting Your Sensitive Child ·

2023/01/18

I want to talk to you today about the value of a safe space. Now, it may seem obvious - of course children need a safe space that they can go to! But I've had a few conversations lately and some experiences of my own that have reminded me of the importance o fcreating safe spaces for your child to turn to. I'm going to start by sharing my own story, then talk a little about what constitutes a safe space and why they are important, and then we'll look at a few examples where safe spaces might get

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9:36

Ep #80: Problem Solving Conversations

Parenting Your Sensitive Child ·

2023/01/11

I mentioned last week that I wanted to share a story with you about bedtime and problem-solving.One of the biggest things I work on with my clients is including their children in the problem-solving process. We talk about having conversations outside of the moment, when everyone has calmed down. One of the challenges that often arises, though, is time. If you are a working parent, it can feel like there's no time to have these conversations. And then you just feel stuck. The pattern persists, and

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17:02

Ep. #79: The Evaluation Process

Parenting Your Sensitive Child ·

2023/01/04

Reflection is something that's strongly encouraged this time of year. We are encouraged to look back on all that we did or didn't do and decide what we'd like to do next.It can stir up a lot of emotions: pride, joy, regret, determination...And it's usually from those emotions that we set our intentions for the next year.I want to offer you a slightly different approach, one that you can carry with you throughout the year. I want to encourage you to go from reflection to evaluation.They sound pretty

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8:01

Ep. #78: The Circumstance Trap

Parenting Your Sensitive Child ·

2022/12/21

Since last week did not go as I had planned, it got me thinking about how much power we give to our circumstances. For example, we tend to attribute our emotions to our circumstances. Whether you are feeling down because you're sick, or feeling on edge because your child has been having more meltdowns lately, there is a very common tendency to link how you're feeling to what's happening in the world around you.When you do this, you place yourself at the mercy of your circumstances, and it's very

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8:13

Ep. #77: What if it's just luck?

Parenting Your Sensitive Child ·

2022/12/07

I want to spend our time together today talking about a pattern that emerges when we start doing the deeper work of creating change within ourselves and our families.It's a pattern that shows up when we are making changes within ourselves in all areas of our life, when we start to change our thinking and how we feel in certain contexts. And generally speaking, this pattern shows up as a form of confusion or denial.We see that things outside of ourselves are beginning to change, and we question the

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