Mindful Parenting: Nurturing the Highly Sensitive Child with Carrie Lingenfelter

2024-09-26

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In this episode of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, host Avik Chakraborty delves into the world of mindful parenting with Carrie Lingenfelter, a former speech therapist turned mindful parenting advocate and host of the Heart to Heart Parents podcast. Together, they explore the unique challenges and rewards of raising gifted, spirited, and highly sensitive children. Carrie shares her journey as both a parent and a professional, offering practical advice for fostering emotional intelligence, connecting deeply with children, and embracing mindfulness in everyday parenting. Whether...

In this episode of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, host Avik Chakraborty delves into the world of mindful parenting with Carrie Lingenfelter, a former speech therapist turned mindful parenting advocate and host of the Heart to Heart Parents podcast. Together, they explore the unique challenges and rewards of raising gifted, spirited, and highly sensitive children. Carrie shares her journey as both a parent and a professional, offering practical advice for fostering emotional intelligence, connecting deeply with children, and embracing mindfulness in everyday parenting. Whether you're raising a sensitive child or simply looking to strengthen your parenting approach, this episode is packed with valuable insights.

About the Guest: Carrie Lingenfelter is a passionate advocate for mindful parenting with a background in early childhood education and speech therapy. She has helped countless families through her work as an early childhood interventionist and now focuses on mentoring parents through her Heart to Heart Parents podcast. Carrie's approach centers around connecting deeply with children, nurturing their emotional intelligence, and helping parents navigate the unique needs of highly sensitive and spirited kids.

Key Takeaways:

Embracing Sensitivity as a Superpower: Carrie encourages parents to view their children's heightened sensitivities not as challenges but as gifts. Sensitivity, whether emotional or sensory, can be a source of strength if guided with compassion.
Mindful Parenting Tools: From flipping socks inside out to quiet time and calming techniques like monkey bars and pillow fights, Carrie offers practical strategies for managing highly sensitive children’s emotional needs while keeping them grounded.
Parental Self-Care: Carrie highlights the importance of parents recognizing their own sensitivities and taking steps to recharge, such as practicing mindfulness themselves and taking breaks when feeling overwhelmed.
Quality over Quantity in Friendships: Highly sensitive children may not need many friends to feel fulfilled. Carrie explains the value of helping children cultivate a few deep, meaningful friendships that align with their emotional depth.
Reframing Mistakes as Growth: Carrie emphasizes the importance of modeling self-compassion and embracing mistakes as opportunities for growth. Parents are encouraged to show their children how to remain present in their emotions and shift focus toward positivity.

By listening to this episode, parents will gain deeper insight into how to foster a harmonious, emotionally intelligent household, and better support their children's unique emotional needs.

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