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5 Lessons We’ve Learned from Saving over 200 Families from the Meltdown/Shutdown Cycle

Highly Sensitive Child| Parenting Style| HSC| Meltdowns| Emotional Availability| Parent
June 29, 2021•1 min read

We’ve met parents with HSCs that scream things like “You’d be better off without me,” or “I wish I was dead.”

 

Or they implode internally like an underwater volcano - silent, yet disruptive to their environment.

 

Somewhere between locking you out of their lives and refusing to let go of your hand.

 

Then there’s you...

...walking on eggshells.

Caught between two different parenting books.

Another cancelled playdate.

Frustration, guilt, resentment… then burn out.

 

The cycle is relentless.

 

You try to ask your friends how they stop the cycle, and each kid is different

 

And it's even tougher to stay consistent when you're a Highly Sensitive parent.

 

Seems impossible to achieve, but it can be incredibly simple.

 

Join me to hear the top 5 lessons we've learned, and why you MUST implement them.

 

To break the cycle for good, book a call with our team.

megghanthompsoncoaching.com/talk

 

Parents of sensitive teens:

megghanthompsoncoaching.com/teentalk

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I help parents who are worried about managing their child’s explosive and out of control emotions to develop an individualized system to manage their kid’s explosive feelings when they don’t fit the examples in typical parenting books. I know you are a parent of a Highly Sensitive Child and are ready to stop scouring the internet for new strategies, throw out those traditional parenting books that don’t match your kid, and develop an individualized system to manage your kid’s explosive feelings.

Megghan Thompson, LCPC, RPT-S

I help parents who are worried about managing their child’s explosive and out of control emotions to develop an individualized system to manage their kid’s explosive feelings when they don’t fit the examples in typical parenting books. I know you are a parent of a Highly Sensitive Child and are ready to stop scouring the internet for new strategies, throw out those traditional parenting books that don’t match your kid, and develop an individualized system to manage your kid’s explosive feelings.

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