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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. #115: A Life Update

Parenting Your Sensitive Child ·

2024/02/19

This isn’t a typical podcast, but then, this hasn’t been a typical month for us.I took an unplanned break from recording new episodes, and I want to take the time today to share a little bit about what’s been going on for us and why a break was necessary.Going forward, I will publish occasional podcast episodes, but they definitely won’t be weekly. Make sure you are subscribed to the podcast and receiving notifications for new episodes so you don’t miss out when I do release one.You can also stay

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Ep. #115: Lessons Learned from Year 9

Parenting Your Sensitive Child ·

2024/01/03

In the spirit of reflection, I want to offer you my own reflections, my own lessons learned over the past year of life with my almost nine year old daughter.We’ve had a lot of ups and downs this year. Our biggest challenges, in retrospect, have been breaking through negativity bias and navigating evolving friendships. Both of these things have created a lot of stress in our lives and have led to a lot of resistance and a big attachment to personal time. So, without diving too deep into any of the

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Ep. #114: When they struggle to calm down...

Parenting Your Sensitive Child ·

2023/12/13

I want to close out 2023 with a question for you to think about.This is especially pertinent if you were sent to your room a lot as a child or you’ve been immersed in time-out culture as a parent.The question is this: When your child is upset and pushing you away, or attacking you, or running away from you, what if what they (and probably you) think they need isn’t what they actually need?In other words, many parents believe that their kids need space to calm down.Many kids “show us” that they need

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9:48

Ep. #113: Four Surprise Lessons I Learned From...

Parenting Your Sensitive Child ·

2023/12/06

I'm publishing this episode a little bit later than I usually do because LIFE, but it's a fun one so here we are. I shared this as an Instagram post a few days ago, but as I'm sure you know, posts fade away much more quickly than podcasts, and I want these reflections to live on in a semi-permanent way.I don't know if you know this, but I used to teach kids yoga. I taught for several years before my daughter was born, and it's something that I think had a bigger impact on my own journey and how I

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Ep. #112: Those Angry Kids, Part 2

Parenting Your Sensitive Child ·

2023/11/29

In the last episode, I shared some ideas for how you can regulate yourself when your child is feeling angry. If you’re regulated, you can respond calmly and help them through it rather than getting tangled up in their anger and prolonging their experience.But this just helps them manage. This week, we’re talking about how you can help them with whatever is causing their anger. More specifically, we’re talking about how you can figure out what that root cause is.This is detective work. You have to

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11:37

Ep. # 111: Those Angry Kids - Part 1

Parenting Your Sensitive Child ·

2023/11/15

As we know, highly sensitive kids feel things deeply. When they’re excited, everyone around them knows it. They bubble over with excitement! Their joy is contagious. But when they are sad, they’re overcome with sorrow. If something is stressful for them, it’s completely overwhelming.Anger, like any other emotion, is also felt in a big way. So if you have a kid who you think is highly sensitive and they get angry in a big way, this episode is for you. We’re going to talk about a couple of things you

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Ep. #110: Holiday Traditions

Parenting Your Sensitive Child ·

2023/11/08

I recently saw a Kids Eat in Color post that talked about the Switch Witch. Do you know that tradition? Essentially, the Switch Witch allows kids to set out their extra candy and trade it in for a new toy.In the video, Jennifer says that the Switch Witch worked great for her oldest child - they loved getting a new toy and had no problem trading in their candy. But for her youngest, the whole idea was creating a lot of anxiety and damaging their relationship with food/candy.So, as we wrap up

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Ep. #109: When they think the solution is changing...

Parenting Your Sensitive Child ·

2023/10/31

I think one of most of our goals as parents is to raise kids who are problem-solvers. We hear over and over again that this is a real-world skill that this generation needs, and that their creativity and problem-solving abilities will be essential as the job market continues to evolve.This is one of the reasons an approach like collaborative problem-solving sounds so appealing. We want them to be problem-solvers. And while I am a fan of this approach, I know it can be tricky to implement if you have

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Episode #108: Mental Health Days

Parenting Your Sensitive Child ·

2023/10/29

In honor of World Mental Health Day, we're talking about giving kids the option of mental health days to use as needed, as well as practicing connecting to our bodies together to help support our own mental health.*Schedule your 1:1 coaching consultation:Prospective Client Consultation - Partnered Path Portal (coachaccountable.com) Get full access to The Blackbird Chronicles at juliamcgarey.substack.com/subscribe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or

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Ep. #107: When one parent isn't on board

Parenting Your Sensitive Child ·

2023/10/27

A couple weeks ago, I saw an Instagram post from Kristy Forbes. Kristy is an autistic advocate and educator with a wealth of knowledge about PDA profile. Anyway, Kristy's post was talking about this idea that we need to get our partner, our co-parent, on our team. This is something that many parents of neurodiverse kids struggle with. On the one hand, you have your relationship with your child, and you have all the strategies that you've tried and that have not worked. On the other hand, you have a

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Ep. #106: At a Turtle's Pace

Parenting Your Sensitive Child ·

2023/09/27

It's happened to all of us. We're right on track for bedtime, or the morning routine is lined up just right to get to school on time, and then... they get stuck. They're dancing in the bathroom and watching themselves in the mirror. They're picking at scabs instead of putting on shoes. They are pulling out the markers to start a drawing instead of grabbing their backpack. Or maybe you've agreed to lie down with them at bedtime but they just won't stop talking and go to

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Ep. #105: Gifted Kids - Neurobiology and Neuroplasticity

Parenting Your Sensitive Child ·

2023/09/20

We're going to talk a little bit more today about brains: specifically what being gifted means about a child's actual, physical brain. I'm going to be talking about two concepts, neurobiology and neuroplasticity, and I want to define them for you here at the beginning so that it's clear what I'm referring to when I use them. Neurobiology, at its most basic, is the biology of the nervous system, and that is essentially what I'm referring to. I'm not talking about

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Ep. #104: Filling Buckets

Parenting Your Sensitive Child ·

2023/09/13

School is back in session for our family, and that means it's podcast season again. I hope you've had a restful, restorative summer (or winter, as the case may be). We had a lot of family time and some great adventures, and I had the space to do some more personal writing, which has been wonderful. I'm sharing it on my Substack, The Blackbird Chronicles. And actually, I've set a little goal for myself to create five new paid subscribers by my birthday this weekend. If you'd like

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Ep. #103: Helping Our Kids Do Hard Things (and school...

Parenting Your Sensitive Child ·

2023/07/19

My daughter is at Girl Scout Camp this week, and it's been a challenge for both of us. She's on day two, and it feels very timely to talk about helping our kids do things that are hard for them, and knowing when to give them a little nudge and when to pull back.I'm sharing a reflection of our journey this week, including the clues that I picked up on along the way that led me to encourage her to keep trying. I'm also talking about signs that you might see that could help you decide

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Ep. # 102: Safe Space or Out of Spoons?

Parenting Your Sensitive Child ·

2023/06/28

I'm tired of hearing well-intentioned people telling parents that the reason their children do so well at school and are so challenging at home is because they feel safe. Their parents are their safe space.Sure, there's truth in that.But is it actually helpful?For many parents, knowing that they are their child's safe space quickly gets translated to "They're saving it all up for me."In this episode, I'm offering a reframe through the lens of "spoon theory."

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Ep. #101: PDA Profile

Parenting Your Sensitive Child ·

2023/06/14

This week we're talking about PDA profile autism.I hope this episode serves as a doorway or a starting point. I'm sharing my understanding of PDA profile and encouraging you - if it sounds at all like your child - to dive deeper and pay particular attention to autistic adults who are speaking up about their experience with PDA. You might check out PDA Our Way FB), Unschooling Stanley (IG), Steph's Two Girls (blog), and Paige Layle (youtube).PDA Profile Autism is an anxiety-based form of

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Ep. #100: Transparency

Parenting Your Sensitive Child ·

2023/06/07

I value transparency.I created this episode to share some of the things that I often assume people know about me that are actually really important aspects of who I am and how I show up as a coach. If you've been following the podcast for a while, these things probably won't be new to you, but I wanted to create an episode where they all could "live," so to speak. I wanted to create an episode that would let anyone who is new to the podcast or my work can get a sense of who I am

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Ep. #99: Who's Driving the Car?

Parenting Your Sensitive Child ·

2023/05/31

I want to share a metaphor with you today that is helpful for adults and school-aged kids alike.To be clear, I didn't come up with this metaphor. You may have heard it before. But it can be such a helpful tool, I just had to give it an episode, a place to live on this podcast.This one is all about allowing your emotions, and honoring your emotions, but not being dominated by them.So if your child - or you for that matter - tends to blow up when they get angry or tries to be tough and hold it

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Ep. #98: Introversion, Extroversion and High Sensitivity

Parenting Your Sensitive Child ·

2023/05/24

I'm sure most of you know what it means to be an introvert or an extrovert, right? Introverts are often more quiet and reserved and they recharge by turning inward, while extroverts are more social and recharge their batteries through social interactions.Super brief summary, but it's a stepping stone to what I really want you to know, and that's that being an introvert and being highly sensitive are two separate traits. Highly sensitive is not just another word for being introverted. It

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Ep. #97: What can you learn from their actions?

Parenting Your Sensitive Child ·

2023/05/17

I want to share a couple of questions with you today that are going to help you reframe your thinking when your child is being aggressive, rude, disrespectful, destructive, or willfully defiant.Because the minute you peg their behavior as negative, you start looking for ways to shut it down and two things can happen: they either escalate and the situation gets worse before it gets better, or they shut down and close off a part of themselves. Either way, it is actively disconnecting you from your

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