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Real Parenting For Sensitive Moms

Adrienne Bishop and Leah Andreoni

Parenting while being Highly Sensitive is not for the weak of heart. And since sensitive moms often have sensitive kids, your house is probably filled with big emotions, everyone feeling everyone else’s feelings, strong-willed, gifted, deep-love-bucket kids… and sometimes it can be a lot.On top of that, you’re probably analyzing, noticing, and anticipating everyone’s moods and needs before they even realize how they’re feeling.It’s exhausting. It’s overwhelming. It’s frustrating. And your nervous

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13. Getting your Kids to Help you Clean up without...

Real Parenting For Sensitive Moms ·

2026/04/01

Clutter stresses me out, but getting my kids to actually help clean it up? That's a whole other battle. And if you've ever resorted to threatening screen time or bribing with dessert just to get the toys off the floor, first of all, same. But also, this episode is going to change the way you think about all of it.Leah and I sat down with Ann Dooley, founder of Simple Joy with Ann and creator of the Dooley Method, and I genuinely walked away from this conversation seeing things differently.Ann is a

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12. EFT Tapping for Moms and Kids with Nicole Sabella

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2026/03/18

You may have heard that in order to feel better and regulate your nervous system you need to "process" your emotions.But how the heck do you do that? Enter TAPPING - the easy, accessible tool that will help you process and release emotions, and feel better fast - and your kids can use it too!In this podcast episode we are talking with Nicole Sabella — dancer, wellness coach, and founder of The Nourished Dancer — to explore the transformative practice of EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), also known

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11. Mental Load: Why Moms Burn Out and How to Teach...

Real Parenting For Sensitive Moms ·

2026/03/04

In this episode, Leah and Adrienne dive deep into the invisible burden so many women carry, the mental load.From remembering school schedules to managing emotional climates at home, they unpack how women, especially highly sensitive and empathic moms, end up as the "default parent," often at the cost of their own well-being.They explore how hormonal changes during perimenopause, like declining estrogen and oxytocin, can make caretaking feel suddenly overwhelming, even impossible. When your brain fog

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10. Perimenopause and HS moms - Why Being a Mom Feels...

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2026/02/18

Perimenopause doesn’t just bring hot flashes, it can quietly reshape everything about how you show up as a mom, partner, and person. And for highly sensitive moms, the emotional intensity, brain fog, and shifting energy levels can feel especially overwhelming.In this honest, empowering conversation, Ashley Basilio, midlife wellness advocate, talks with Adrienne and Leah about her own perimenopause journey and how it collided with parenting teens, burnout, and identity shifts. As a certified

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9. Anxiety in HS moms - Tools for Relief and LIVE...

Real Parenting For Sensitive Moms ·

2026/02/04

Anxiety is incredibly common for highly sensitive moms, especially after becoming a parent. In this episode, Adrienne and Leah have an honest, grounded conversation about how anxiety actually shows up in sensitive motherhood and why parenting can intensify it so much. They explore how anxiety often lives in the body, not just the mind, and how it can look like hypervigilance, overthinking, people pleasing, perfectionism, difficulty resting, and feeling responsible for everyone else’s emotions...

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8. Mom Rage: A Message, Not a Meltdown with Nicole...

Real Parenting For Sensitive Moms ·

2026/01/21

Have you ever found yourself snapping at your kids and then feeling awful about it afterward? You’re not alone. In this episode of Real Parenting for the Sensitive Mom, we talk with perinatal mental health therapist and researcher Nicole McNellis about mom rage — what it is, why it happens, and why it doesn’t mean you’re a bad mom. We explore how overwhelm, resentment, unrealistic expectations, and nervous system overload can build up and spill over, especially for sensitive, deeply caring mo...

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7. ADHD vs Highly Sensitive, What's the Difference?...

Real Parenting For Sensitive Moms ·

2026/01/07

What if the overwhelm you’ve always blamed on anxiety or “being too sensitive” is actually ADHD… or both? In this episode of Real Parenting for the Sensitive Mom, Adrienne Bishop and Leah Andeoni sit down with licensed, trauma-informed therapist Avery Wasmanski to unpack the complex and often confusing overlap between high sensitivity, ADHD, anxiety, and trauma in motherhood. With both professional expertise and lived experience as a mom with ADHD, Avery helps us explore why so many wo...

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Positive Discipline - the parenting style that...

Real Parenting For Sensitive Moms ·

2025/12/10

Connection Before Correction - GET YOUR FREE POSITIVE DISCIPLINE CHEAT SHEET HERE! Parenting a highly sensitive child while being a sensitive parent yourself? We see you. In this episode, Leah and Adrienne dive deep into how Positive Discipline can transform your parenting journey — especially when traditional methods just don’t work. What You’ll Hear: Why sticker charts, timeouts, and yelling backfire with sensitive kidsWhat makes highly sensitive kids tick (hint: their nervous systems ...

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5. Why Your Kid Freaks Out Over Tags and You Hate...

Real Parenting For Sensitive Moms ·

2025/11/26

Leah and I are back this week for podcast Episode 5: Why Your Kid Freaks Out Over Tags and You Hate Perfume: How Physical Sensitivity Impacts Moms & Kids. We’re diving into something most people have never heard of: the 8 sensory systems that shape how highly sensitive kids (and their moms!) experience the world (and cause meltdowns). If you’re parenting a highly sensitive child while being sensitive yourself, you know how overwhelming life can feel. This episode is your roadmap to ...

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Postpartum for the Highly Sensitive Mom: When it’s...

Real Parenting For Sensitive Moms ·

2025/11/12

The postpartum period is one of the most transformational times in a woman’s life. She is changing from the inside out - from brain changes to cellular changes and it can be very overwhelming for the sensitive mom. During pregnancy and after giving birth, drastic hormonal shifts occur and you are expected to manage all of this with elegance, grace, looking good and enjoying every moment. That is not the reality for most moms, and these expectations can cause a host of probl...

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3. Motivating Your Child the Way They’re Wired: Using...

Real Parenting For Sensitive Moms ·

2025/10/29

How many of us have struggled to motivate our kids to cooperate? Or just get stuff done? In this episode of Real Parenting for the Sensitive Mom, Leah and Adrienne explore how understanding your child’s temperament can transform the way you motivate them. Drawing from Kathleen Edelman’s book A Grown-Up’s Guide to Your Kids’ Wiring, they break down the four temperaments—Sanguine, Choleric, Phlegmatic, and Melancholic—and how each one responds to different types of encouragement, expectations, ...

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2. Real Self-Care for HS Moms: Not Just Another Thing...

Real Parenting For Sensitive Moms ·

2025/10/15

Are you struggling to find time for self care? Does it feel like just one more thing on your to-do list that you're failing at? In this episode, Adrienne and Leah explore what self-care really looks like for highly sensitive moms. From sensory-friendly environments to emotional wellness and creative outlets, they offer practical, bite-sized strategies to help you feel more grounded, supported, and seen. This isn’t about adding more to your plate—it’s about shifting how you care for yourself i...

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What it means to be a Highly Sensitive Mom and Why it...

Real Parenting For Sensitive Moms ·

2025/10/01

Do you feel overwhelmed as a mom more than others? Are you anxious about your parenting? Do you feel your kids feelings and want to fix them to feel better? You may be highly sensitive. In this episode, Adrienne Bishop and Leah Andreoni explore what it means to be a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) and why understanding this trait is crucial for moms and their children. Adrienne, a parenting coach and integrative hypnotist, shares her personal journey as a sensitive mom raising three sensi...

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