How I Soothe My Sensitivity and Anxiety During the Holidays

What I'm doing to care for and recharge my highly sensitive nervous system right now.

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While we’ve been focused on holiday stress and anxiety all month, this is a more personal post, and I’d love to hear back from you if any of this resonates.

My whole body is feeling it: a general unsettled feeling in my joints, on my skin, in my heart and gut.

• There’s so much to do.

• My childhood expectations merge with my parenting desires.

• A week without structure is coming… 😱

We’re here at

Atypical Kids, Mindful Parents

because we want to support our kids, but a huge part of being good at that is in how we support ourselves. Stop judging yourself for being human! Take a breath, join me, and I promise to keep it brief and helpful…

Pause and ask yourself these 2 questions:

• How am I really feeling?

• What do I most need right now?

This is self-empathy in a nutshell. Here’s how it helps:

As an HSP and empath, I absorb other people’s feelings, so I need alone time to differentiate my own feelings from my family’s, and to figure out what I need. During the holidays, I don’t get as much …