From Parenting and Nurturing the Highly Sensitive Child: Sidu Arroyo – Into Healing S3, Ep.2:

“My journey into working with highly sensitive people and children actually began with my own journey—probably in my twenties. I started to really try to figure out this question of, “What’s going on with me? Why do I seem to be so different from other people?” There were certain things that just felt, if you will, wrong with me.

At the time, I was not a therapist, and that led me on a path to try to find my own answers. I stumbled upon the work of Elaine Aron, the researcher who coined the term Highly Sensitive Person. It opened up a whole different world for me—suddenly, things made sense. It explained why I am the way I am, and why I’m particularly sensitive to certain things that most people aren’t.

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From Parenting and Nurturing the Highly Sensitive Child: Sidu Arroyo – Into Healing S3, Ep.2:

“Mira: What kind of environments or things are challenging or nourishing for highly sensitive people, just for us to be aware of?

Sidu: […] Just noticing environments—both external and within the home—is important. What are the things we might be avoiding or not addressing within ourselves? How are we working to heal ourselves, to address our own anxieties and fears that may relate to our highly sensitive child—who they’ll become 20 years down the road, or how they’ll make it through life? The relational, the family dynamic, can really affect them. It doesn’t have to be perfect—“good enough” is really good enough.

But there are also things that feel especially supportive for them. Rest, for example—it feels foundational. And not just sleep, but true rest. Do they have time throughout their days to pause, to play? This is true for adults as well. Not being overscheduled is key.”