HSP Parenting

Listen to supportive podcasts where I have been interviewed and share tips and support about parenting highly sensitive children as well as being an HSP parent. Learn about how the trait of sensory processing sensitivity that 20-30% of the population has might create challenges in parenting and what self-care might honor your needs. Understanding all of this can be life-transforming.

I have separated them into two categories: The Highly Sensitive Parent and The Highly Sensitive Baby and Child

To support more inclusive language, I have changed “mother” to “parent” wherever possible in this text to acknowledge every kind of parent, including our non-binary and trans parents. ❤️

The Highly Sensitive Parent

Mom & Mind Podcast: The Highly Sensitive Parent (Re-released it’s so good!)

Show Highlights:

• Common for the HSP parent is to put themselves at the bottom of the priority list and take care of others first

• Certain parts of the brain in HSP parents will be overactive, like merging into everyone else’s moods and experiences

• How HSP contributes to overall perinatal depression and anxiety, since everything changes in mind, body, and spirit

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Women In-Depth: The Highly Sensitive Parent with Julie Bjelland, LMFT

Highlights:

• Why prioritizing finding time for self-care is so important for highly sensitive parents.

• The things HSP parents can do to re-energize throughout their day.

• How a positive, supportive environment is essential when parents and child are highly sensitive.

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Mindful Mama: Highly Sensitive Persons

Hunter talks to Julie Bjelland about Highly Sensitive Persons. Some big takeaways from this episode include:

1. Many of us walk around with masks on.
2. Ways to reduce anxiety and stress.
3. How we parent makes a HUGE difference for highly sensitive children.

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Highly Sensitive Baby and Child

Women In-Depth Episode: Parenting the Highly Sensitive Child

What you’ll hear in this episode:

• The difference between a high-sensitivity trait and a sensory-processing disorder

• What is the “super-computer brain” and how do we teach our children to manage it?

• How and when to discipline a highly-sensitive child

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The Dyslexia Quest Podcast - How to Support Your Highly Sensitive Child (HSP) - with Julie Bjelland, LMFT

Join us for this episode as we delve into the world of Highly Sensitive Persons (HSP) and how to best support a highly sensitive child. This can go hand-in-hand with dyslexia, so it may be a topic that resonates with a specific group of our Dyslexia Quest audience. Julie specializes in the trait of high sensitivity and has helped thousands of highly sensitive people around the world.

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Mom & Mind Podcast: Highly Sensitive Babies

You’re probably familiar with the term HSP, a designation for a highly sensitive person. You may have heard this trait discussed on some of our previous shows. We know many parents are HSP’s, but your infant can be highly sensitive too! If you’re a highly sensitive person, then this topic may resonate deeply with you, as it does personally for me. Join us for today’s discussion.

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Soulfilled Sisterhood: Parenting a Highly Sensitive Child

In this episode:

• Signs your child might be HSP-texture of clothing, feeling overwhelmed in crowds, more meltdowns

• How parents can support HSP children

• Role modeling self-care as an adult HSP-quiet time together

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Mindful Mama Podcast: What Do Kids Need?

At minute 35:20 you can listen to Julie's interview where they ask her three questions about what sensitive kids need.

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Free HSP Webinar: High Sensitivity and Anxiety

Why is anxiety so high in highly sensitive people? We will explore this, learn about the trait of high sensitivity and how it might make us more susceptible, and share tools and resources that will help you reduce anxiety naturally and thrive to your fullest potential!

Julie Bjelland is a Psychotherapist specializing in high sensitivity, host of The HSP Podcast, and Founder of the Sensitive Empowerment Community, whose mission is to create a paradigm shift where sensitivity is embraced, valued, and honored. Julie offers multiple essential resources for educating, inspiring, and empowering HSPs. Register for her free webinars, take the Sensitivity Quiz and profoundly transform your life in her courses and community. Her HSPs in Business Group is designed to support and empower sensitive people to grow heart-centered businesses, share their voices, and be part of the change the world needs. JulieBjelland.com❤️🌈❤️ (she/her)

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