Ever been told you're "too sensitive" or wondered why parenting feels so overwhelming? You might be among the 20-30% of people born with the highly sensitive person (HSP) trait. In this illuminating conversation with Lisa Lewis, licensed therapist and holistic practitioner, we unpack what it means to parent as an HSP—and possibly raise HSP children.

Lisa introduces us to Dr. Elaine Aaron's DOES framework, which helps explain why highly sensitive people process deeply, become easily overstimulated, demonstrate strong empathy, and notice subtleties others miss. We explore how these traits shape our parenting approach, often leading to perfectionism and exhaustion as we absorb not just our own emotions but everyone else's too.

The perfectionist tendencies many HSPs develop often begin in childhood—HSP children instinctively try to make everything "perfect" when they sense tension or conflict, sacrificing their own emotional expression in the process. As parents, we might recreate these patterns, striving for perfect environments and experiences for our children while depleting ourselves.

What makes this episode truly transformative are the practical energy management techniques shared. From visualizing protective boundaries with "this is me and that is you" mantras to teaching even young children how to protect their energy with simple visualizations, these tools offer immediate relief for overwhelmed HSP parents. The qigong practice of "shaking it off"—similar to how animals naturally reset their nervous systems after stress—provides another accessible way to release absorbed tension.

Ready to transform your sensitivity from a burden into your parenting superpower? This conversation offers compassion, validation, and practical wisdom for the highly sensitive parent's journey. Your sensitivity isn't a weakness—it's a gift that, when properly managed, allows you to parent with extraordinary insight and connection.

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Have you ever noticed your child suddenly reflecting emotions you've been quietly harboring? There's a profound energetic connection between parents and children that goes beyond words—one that can teach us as much as we teach them.

In this eye-opening episode, I share a recent experience with my son who expressed heartache about attending a concert because he missed his old friends. This moment revealed the fascinating way children can sometimes mirror our unspoken feelings, while other times they're processing their own authentic emotions. The challenge for spiritual parents lies in helping our children discern between the two.

I introduce a powerful tool I use with my kids: teaching them to ask, "Is this your energy or someone else's?" By placing a hand on their hearts and tuning inward, children can develop the extraordinary skill of energetic discernment—something many of us didn't learn until adulthood, if at all. This practice has transformed how my family communicates about emotions and helps my children build healthy energetic boundaries.

The episode explores how energy works in our interactions with others, from the magnetic pull we feel toward certain people to the way others are drawn to us when our hearts are open. I share practical activities, like intuitive watercolor painting, that parents can use to help children recognize their mind-body-spirit connection in playful, accessible ways. Imagine where our children will be at 41 if they're learning these spiritual tools at 7 and 10!

Ready to bring more spiritual awareness into your parenting journey? Visit hearttoheartlife.com to take our new Woo quiz and connect with our community of conscious parents. Share your experiences or questions by emailing info@hearttoheartlife.com—I'd love to hear how you're helping your children navigate their energetic awareness.

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Have you ever stopped to consider how energy flows through your family? Not just the buzzing activity of daily life, but the actual spiritual energy that connects you, your children, and everything around you?

Energy awareness forms the foundation of conscious parenting, yet many of us overlook this powerful concept when raising our children. I share my journey rediscovering energy principles I learned as a child and how teaching these concepts to my own kids has transformed our family dynamics. For highly sensitive or empathic children especially, understanding energy flow is crucial to their wellbeing.

The connection between perfectionism and energy depletion emerges as a central theme. As a recovering perfectionist, I reveal how my obsession with maintaining a spotless home drained my energy and negatively impacted my parenting. Learning to establish energy boundaries and determine where to focus my limited resources became essential to becoming a happier, more present parent. This shift required examining deep-seated beliefs about control and perfection that many parents will recognize in themselves.

Practical energy management strategies fill this episode, from understanding your family's capacity versus demands to recognizing when everyone needs recharging time. I share personal stories about summer adventures with my children and how I've learned to read our collective energy levels. Discover valuable tools for energy maintenance including crystal work, quick meditations suitable for busy parents, family energy clearing exercises, and the profound benefits of nature connection. The simple act of explaining energy concepts to children using visual meters helps them develop self-awareness that will serve them throughout life.

Ready to transform your parenting through energy awareness? Try one of the suggested practices this week – whether hugging a tree, doing a two-minute bathroom meditation, or creating an energy meter with your children. Your spiritual parenting journey begins with understanding that everything, including you and your children, is energy flowing through a connected universe.

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Have you ever tried everything to solve a persistent family issue—therapy, specialists, countless books—only to find yourself still struggling? What if the root cause isn't in your parenting approach or your child's behavior, but in patterns inherited from generations past?

Family Systemic Constellations offers a profound perspective: many of our challenges stem from moments when love was interrupted in our family lineage. When traumatic events weren't properly processed by our ancestors—wars, migrations, losses, abandonments—someone down the line often unconsciously "takes on" this unresolved energy. This explains why we sometimes develop patterns that therapy can't fully address.

Elizabeth Lynn Rohr shares how this healing modality works with the natural flow of love through generations. Rather than blaming ourselves or our children, we discover how right-sizing our place in the family system creates profound shifts. The work honors each person's unique fate while releasing parents from the impossible burden of controlling outcomes. As Elizabeth explains, "We can guide our children, support them, model something different than what we received, but that's all we can do"—and remarkably, that's enough.

Most fascinating is how this work happens through horses, whose sensitivity to emotional energy makes them perfect representatives in the healing process. Without human preconceptions, they naturally respond to what needs healing, sometimes embodying family members or reflecting back exactly what we need to see.

Ready to experience a different approach to family challenges? This episode offers hope that by understanding and realigning these invisible threads of connection, we can restore the natural flow of love—benefiting not just ourselves, but generations past and future.

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Are our kids here to heal us? Renee Boos of the Neurodiverse Community Center joins Carrie to share her incredible journey of raising a demand avoidant, highly intuitive son—and how his sensitivities became a gateway to both of their healing.

Renee shares her transformative journey as a parent of a demand avoidant child who taught her that everything she once viewed as "wrong" could actually be reframed as perfectly right. With raw honesty, she describes how her son's wisdom—expressed remarkably early—led her to question deeply held beliefs about normalcy, success, and what truly matters. "My son spoke at a very young age about how he had come from the nothing and that there were many like him that had chosen to come to this existence at this place in time to reset the balance here," Renee reveals.

The conversation delves into the historical value of highly sensitive people in tribal communities, where they were honored for their ability to alert others to dangers that weren't obvious. Could today's neurodiverse children be serving a similar purpose—guiding humanity back to connection and authenticity? We explore how parents can step into the unknown with an open heart, healing their own wounds to better support their children's natural gifts.

For parents feeling isolated while raising neurodiverse children, this episode offers both validation and hope. Discover why creating spaces where these families can simply be themselves without judgment is revolutionary, and how embracing our children's differences might be the key to our collective evolution.

Join us to transform your perspective on neurodiversity and perhaps discover that what society labels as challenges might actually be your child's—and your—greatest superpowers.

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Have you ever wondered why your child's emotional outbursts seem to come out of nowhere? The answer might be closer to home than you think. In this deeply reflective episode, I share a powerful personal story about the hidden connection between my son's unexpected meltdown and my own unacknowledged emotional turmoil.

When my child erupted in the car after school, something profound was happening beneath the surface. By pausing, grounding myself, and listening not just to his words but to the energy between us, I discovered that his behavior was actually mirroring what I needed to heal in myself. This realization forms the cornerstone of spiritual parenting – recognizing that our children are often reflecting back exactly what we need to address in our own lives.

The transformation that followed was nothing short of remarkable. After doing my own spiritual work that evening – through meditation, journaling, and energy alignment – my son woke up the next morning radiant with joy and gratitude. This wasn't coincidence; it was evidence of the energetic connection we share with our children. When we heal ourselves, we create space for them to thrive.

Spiritual parenting isn't about perfection or having all the answers. It's about staying present, using challenges as doorways to growth, and understanding that the most powerful parenting tool isn't a technique but your own spiritual alignment. As I discovered, sometimes the question isn't "How do I fix my child's behavior?" but rather "What is my child's behavior trying to teach me about myself?"

Try incorporating some spiritual awareness into your parenting this week. Notice when tensions arise, and ask yourself what might be bubbling up within you that needs attention. Your children might just be your greatest spiritual teachers, showing you exactly where healing is needed in your own life.

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Parenting sensitive children demands more than just conventional approaches. After nearly exhausting every traditional therapy option for my kids who hold it together in public but release their emotions at home, I discovered a powerful truth: the spiritual dimension of parenting transformed our family dynamics in ways no cognitive behavioral therapy or occupational therapy ever could.

This revelation marks an important evolution in my parenting journey and this podcast. What began as Heart to Heart Parents is now becoming The Spiritual Parent—reflecting the spiritual undercurrent that has naturally emerged as the most effective approach for my family and many others. When therapy professionals told me there was nothing more they could offer my "over-therapetized" children, I turned inward and discovered healing through energy work, mindfulness practices, and heart-centered parenting.

The results have been remarkable. My son now requests Reiki before bed to help ground and calm him after busy days. My seven-year-old daughter asks for guided meditations and visualizations of protective white light around her room. These aren't concepts I forced upon them—they naturally gravitate toward what helps them feel safe, centered, and loved. This podcast will explore these practices while honoring the unique path of every family. We'll discuss energy work, the law of attraction, guided meditations, and most importantly, how to tune into your heart when the countless parenting books and conflicting advice become overwhelming. After all, no expert knows your child better than you do when you're connected to your inner wisdom.

Join me on this transformative journey by following @thespiritualparent on Instagram and Facebook, or reaching out at info@hearttoheartlife.com. I'd love to hear what spiritual parenting means to you and what topics you're most curious about. And if this resonates with you, please leave a five-star review to help other parents discover these powerful tools for family transformation.

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What if your child's greatest challenges are actually their most profound spiritual gifts?

Every parent has felt that moment of worry when comparing their child to others or receiving a discouraging evaluation from a teacher or therapist. We're conditioned to focus on what our children lack rather than the extraordinary qualities they bring. But what if there's a profound spiritual purpose behind your child's unique traits and challenges?

Akashic Records reader and energy coach Kanika Vasudeva transforms our understanding of neurodiversity and sensitivity in children by revealing the deeper spiritual framework at play. Each child arrives precisely as they're meant to be—not randomly, but deliberately chosen to heal ancestral patterns and bring specific gifts to their lineage. Those very qualities that might be labeled as deficits in conventional settings often mask extraordinary spiritual connections and capabilities.

"These kids are hitting the ground running," Kanika explains, revealing how souls actually compete for bodies that will experience challenges because they offer accelerated spiritual growth. A child who struggles with traditional academics may be developing profound empathy; a child with speech delays might be preparing to become an extraordinary communicator who speaks deeply to people's hearts.

For overwhelmed parents, Kanika offers practical energy management techniques, from simple one-minute breathing breaks to playful visualization exercises you can teach your children. These grounding practices help sensitive kids discharge overwhelming energy much like electrical appliances use earthing wires to release excess charge.

Perhaps most healing is the invitation to shift your questions from "What's wrong with my child?" to "What is my child bringing for me?" and "What part of myself needs healing when I focus on my child's perceived deficiencies?" As we break free from society's rigid expectations, we create space for both ourselves and our children to embody authenticity and purpose.

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© 2024-2025 Heart to Heart Life LLC