015: Can We Help Our Highly Sensitive Kids Manage Their Stress Sensitivity? with Dr. Heidi Hanna
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Healthy Parenting Handbook with Katie Kimball
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I'm so happy to have my stress mastery mentor here today!
Heidi Hanna, PhD, is one of the most intellectual, intuitive and compassionate people I know, and I'm honored to host her wisdom today. We recorded this interview in March 2020, when we were all in a tailspin and figuring out managing our stress was more important than ever!
Fill your brain with Dr. Hanna's research and her personal experience today:
- At age 10, Heidi was fainting from stress - literally. Find out how to help if this happens to your child, or if they seem to get stomachaches and headaches in uncomfortable situations.
- Highly sensitive kids actually fare better than other kids if raised in the right environment...but we don't always get that right as you'll hear.
- What research is showing about how stress-sensitive people's brains work and why Dr. Hanna doesn't love the term "negativity bias," even though it's technically accurate to describe stress-sensitive people.
- Why HSCs sometimes spiral into thinking like, "It's all my fault, I messed that up, I'm so dumb, and this is why NO ONE LIKES ME!" (I feel like that's my whole high school life!)
- And more importantly, what parents can do to help kids stop that spiral, appreciate what their reactions are trying to tell them, and reverse the reaction.
- How we can look at the ways in which our kids (or ourselves) are reacting to stress and understand what recharge techniques they need to get more capacity.
- Dr. Hanna's encouragement for parents of HSCs and how we can see the positive about our children's personality.
Resources We Mention for Managing Stress
- Dr. Hanna's website
- Dr. Hanna's courses: Stress Mastery Fundamentals 101 and Stress Mastery Foundations
- Elaine Aron's Website
- My Healthy Parenting Handbook Episodes on Stress Mastery: part 1 and part 2
- My interview with Dr. K, an expert on highly sensitive children
- My introduction to highly sensitive people
- GoNoodle
- HeartMath device helps regulate stress response
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