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How Can I Reduce My Anger and Annoyance As A Highly Sensitive Parent?

Jul 8, 2024

Discover the unique challenges faced by highly sensitive parents in managing emotions like anger and frustration. The hosts share personal anecdotes about navigating parenting moments, including the funny hurdles of potty training. Learn practical strategies such as setting boundaries, taking sensory breaks, and practicing compassion. They emphasize the beauty of sensitivity and how to work together in parenting. With humor and relatable stories, this discussion highlights emotional well-being as a priority for both parents and their children.

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Quick takeaways

Highly sensitive parenting requires understanding one's own triggers and needs to effectively manage emotional states and behavior.

Implementing sensory breaks and setting boundaries empowers highly sensitive parents to cultivate self-compassion and maintain composure during challenges.

Open communication between partners strengthens their ability to empathize and problem-solve, fostering a supportive environment in parenting.

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Understanding High Sensitivity

Being highly sensitive encompasses a spectrum of sensory needs that significantly impact daily life. This sensitivity is not merely a personality trait; it is an innate predisposition that can encompass various sensory experiences, such as aversion to specific textures or overwhelming sounds. Examples include needing tightly fitted sheets for comfort or having food items kept separate on a plate to avoid sensory overload. Recognizing that high sensitivity is a natural trait can empower sensitive individuals and parents to approach daily challenges with self-compassion rather than guilt.

Intro

2min

Navigating Parenting as a Highly Sensitive Person

15min

Navigating Potty Training and Sensitivity in Parenting

2min

Managing Emotions as a Sensitive Parent

22min

Navigating Parental Challenges with Humor and Strategies

3min

Navigating Guilt and Values in Time Management

2min

Navigating Parenting Frustrations

9min

Scott recently had a situation where he lost his cool with his toddler. In this episode, Jess and Scott unpack what happened and how he could do things differently next time by setting himself up for success as a highly sensitive person.

They discuss what it means to be highly sensitive, from noticing subtle textures and needing things a certain way to being more emotionally attuned. Scott shares his own challenges staying calm as a highly sensitive parent, especially when his sensory cup is full.

Jess offers practical tips for coping as a highly sensitive parent, like taking sensory breaks, setting boundaries, and having compassion for your unique needs. She emphasizes that there’s nothing wrong with being a sensitive person, and learning to work with your sensitivity (or your partner's or child’s sensitivity) comes with many beautiful gifts.

Through a thoughtful and, at times, humorous discussion, Scott and Jess model how partners can talk through triggering parenting moments to problem-solve together.

Listeners will gain insights into the highly sensitive parent experience and leave with new strategies to try.

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Credits:

Editing by The Pod Cabin

Artwork by Wallflower Studio

Production by Nurtured First

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