Welcome to the Sensitive and Neurodivergent podcast (formerly The HSP Podcast) with Julie Bjelland, LMFT, a space for sensitive and neurodivergent individuals to explore emotional well-being, self-compassion, and empowerment. Join Julie and her guests as they discuss topics like managing sensitivity, overcoming shame, coping with a world not set up for us, and finding joy. The podcast offers insights and tools to help you navigate the world as your authentic self, build resilience, and conne ...
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For artists and creative people in general. Brief excerpts of interviews with artists, psychologists, and others on emotional health, personality, high sensitivity, giftedness, neurodivergence, and more topics. See my main podcast page on Substack thecreativemind.substack.com/podcast - where you can also see posts and subscribe. By Douglas Eby.
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Candid conversations with people who live with Misophonia. Misophonia is a disorder in which there is a strong sensitivity to certain sounds. A person with misophonia feels rage and an inability to focus on anything but that sound. It feels like a fight-or-flight response. Host Adeel Ahmad has misophonia and interviews other "misophones" from around the world. All episodes are edited to be more sensory-friendly including equalization and brown noise. If you'd like to be a guest, go to https: ...
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The official audio version of Astral Codex Ten, with an archive of posts from Slate Star Codex. It's just me reading Scott Alexander's blog posts.
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Calm Connection Parenting- Meltdowns, Challenging Behaviors, Parenting Struggles, Connected Parenting
Jami Kirkbride LPC, Parenting Coach, Special Focus on ADHD, DMDD. Sensory, and Child Anxiety
Hello and welcome to Calm Connection Parenting! I’m your host, Jami Kirkbride—mom of seven, parenting coach, professional counselor, and wrangler of big emotions. If you’re raising a highly sensitive child with intense emotions, challenging behaviors, or a "spicy" personality, and wondering if you’ll make it through without losing your mind, you’re not alone! Around here, we’re all about real-life parenting, sprinkled with a little humor and a whole lot of patience. So, grab your coffee (tru ...
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Listen to people share candid stories about the moment it clicked that they have ADHD. Host Laura Key, who’s had her own ADHD “aha” moment, chats with guests about common topics like ADHD and shame, mental health challenges, and more. Through heartfelt interviews, listeners learn about the unexpected, emotional, and even funny ways ADHD symptoms surface for kids and adults.
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This is a weekly podcast for Highly Sensitive Persons (HSPs), introverts, empaths, intuitives, INFJs or anyone else that wants a little help supporting sensitivity! My name is Michelle Lynn. I share my experiences as a highly sensitive person while discussing the works of Dr. Elaine Aron. It is my intention to provide useful tips and resources for other individuals looking to balance, maintain, and enhance their own unique sensitivities. The show is perfect for HSPs, introverts, empaths, int ...
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Welcome to the Sensory Friendly Solutions Podcast! Dive into our ever-growing series of 27 episodes that explore the fascinating world of your senses, tackling sensory sensitivity, sensory overload, and practical sensory-friendly solutions for daily life. Each episode is a blend of expert insights, personal stories, and actionable advice, designed to inspire and empower. What sets us apart? Our episodes feature international luminaries like occupational therapist and researcher Dr. Winnie Du ...
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In this podcast, we explore how sensitivity weaves itself into our lives. We talk about the richness that it adds, and the strengths we have BECAUSE of our sensitivity and some of the challenges it poses as well. If you are a Creative, a deep thinker, a deep feeler, neurodivergent, autistic, a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP), an introvert, or identify as INFJ or ENFJ, you may enjoy the in-depth conversations where we talk openly and honestly about how we experience life. This is a podcast wher ...
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Welcome to 'Empower in Flow: Unleashing Your Highly Sensitive Potential'—the podcast that helps you turn your sensitivities into a powerhouse 🌟 I'm Lina, your guide in embracing your authentic self 🧘♀️ We'll explore strategies to manage sensory overload, quiet overthinking, set boundaries, and harness your sensitivity as a gift 🎁 Each episode offers insights, stories, and tips to navigate life as an HSP. You'll gain tools to trust your intuition, express your needs, and design a life of eas ...
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Produced by Associated Skin Care Professionals (ASCP), ASCP Esty Talk and The Rogue Pharmacist is specifically created for estheticians. Where no topic is off limits, we share all kinds of great information on this podcast from ingredients and the science of the skin, to business, and beauty diversity. We hope you come away having learned more about your career, the industry, and maybe even life in general!
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The conversations in this podcast will explore current and relevant topics in the early years. Together we will reflect on pedagogy, mentorship, early childhood education, professional learning, child development and parent engagement.
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Welcome to Stars of the Golden Age, a show that highlights the lives of legends from film, music, and the birth of television during Hollywood’s Golden Age and the few years surrounding it. I will dive into the early lives that led to stardom for some of the biggest names in Hollywood’s golden age, and the subsequent lives behind the scenes… and I’ll shine the light on some lesser known names as well. Join me weekly for Old Hollywood biographies like you've never heard them! Host: Erin Carls ...
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The Parenting with Impact Podcast with Elaine Taylor-Klaus and Diane Dempster, co-creators of ImpactParents.com, inspires parents and professionals guiding complex kids, teens and young adults all over the world to become capable, independent adults. ImpactParents.com is an online community, award-winning blog, and direct service provider for parents and professionals. Elaine and Diane are certified professional coaches with their own lived experience raising children with complex challenges ...
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Burt Lancaster (sensory-sensitve...no background/transition music) The dashing leading man with the mad trapeze skills. Circus performer turned actor turned circus performer turned actor again... and producer. The man could do it all. He was hard-working, determined, and put his heart into the causes he believed in. Listen now! PATREON: patreon.com…
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Consciousness is the great mystery. In search of answers, scientists have plumbed every edge case they can think of - sleep, comas, lucid dreams, LSD trips, meditative ecstasies, seizures, neurosurgeries, that one pastor in 18th century England who claimed a carriage accident turned him into a p-zombie. Still, new stuff occasionally turns up. I ass…
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I often disagree with Marginal Revolution, but their post today made me a new level of angry: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/contra-mr-on-charity-regrants
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The Evidence That A Million Americans Died Of COVID
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12:14Many commenters responded to yesterday’s post by challenging the claim that 1.2 million Americans died of COVID... https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-evidence-that-a-million-americans
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Five years later, we can’t stop talking about COVID. Remember lockdowns? The conflicting guidelines about masks - don’t wear them! Wear them! Maybe wear them! School closures, remote learning, learning loss, something about teachers’ unions. That one Vox article on how worrying about COVID was anti-Chinese racism. The time Trump sort of half-sugges…
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EP217: Online Safety for Kids: Roblox New Parental Controls
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32:56The world your child plays in is bigger than you think, and it’s changing faster than most parents can track. In this eye-opening episode, Dina Lamdany, a product manager at Roblox, joins us to unpack how the platform is evolving to protect kids and spark healthier digital conversations. But this isn't just about parental controls or privacy settin…
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Ep 327 – Beyond the Treatment: How to Build Genuine Connections
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17:52Beyond treatments and product recommendations, it’s the meaningful moments, consistent care, and personal touches that build trust and long-term loyalty. This week on ASCP Esty Talk, Ella and Maggie dive into one of the most powerful aspects of being an esthetician—creating authentic, emotional connections with clients. ASCP Esty Talk with hosts El…
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Book Review: Selfish Reasons To Have More Kids
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40:03Bryan Caplan’s Selfish Reasons To Have More Kids is like the Bible. You already know what it says. You’ve already decided whether you believe or not. Do you really have to read it all the way through? But when you’re going through a rough patch in your life, sometimes it helps to pick up a Bible and look for pearls of forgotten wisdom. That’s where…
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Ask Redditors what’s the worst subreddit, and a few names always come up. /r/atheism and /r/childfree are unpopular, but if I read them with an open mind, I always end up sympathetic - neither lifestyle is persecuted in my particular corner of society, but the Redditors there have usually been through some crazy stuff, and I don’t begrudge them a p…
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Highlights From The Comments On AI Geoguessr
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16:07Thanks to everyone who commented on the original post. https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/highlights-from-the-comments-on-ai
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History of the Hollywood Sign (Bonus Teaser!)
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30:16Enjoy this special release of a Stars of the Golden Age bonus episode! Please visit patreon.com/starsofthegoldenagepodcast to learn more about the bonus content available. Next week we'll be back to our regular episodes covering fantastic golden age stars! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/…
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Sensory Overload can lead to anxiety, fatigue. How to renew energy and calm?
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8:49As various researchers and therapists note, being a highly sensitive person or another form of neurodivergent, with different "neurological wiring," we can experience many positive qualities, such a greater appreciation of beauty and art, a heightened awareness of subtleties, emotional depth, stronger empathy, and more. All of which can enhance cre…
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This is a special extra episode commemorating one year of Stars of the Golden Age! No biographies in this episode... Just me talking about the journey of this podcast and my goals for the future. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBy Erin Carlson
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Emotional Dysregulation in Kids: 10 Effective Strategies to Help Your Child Calm Down
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31:05CalmConnectionParent.com/resource In this episode of the Calm Connection Parenting Podcast, we’re diving into the topic of emotional dysregulation and how you can help your child manage overwhelming emotions to calm down. If you’ve ever faced the challenge of meltdowns, tantrums, or outbursts, this episode is for you. We’ll explore what emotional d…
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Ep 326 – Word on the Street – Controversial Skin Care Industry Topics
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24:17This episode of ASCP Esty Talk explores the FDA’s controversial call for in vivo testing of chemical sunscreens and what it means for the future of skin care safety. We also unpack hot-button industry issues—from greenwashing and overmedicalization to fear-based marketing, barrier damage, and the lack of inclusive testing. Listen in to hear Ella an…
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EP216: ADHD & Memory: It's So Important, I Forgot
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40:08What if forgetfulness isn't a flaw but a clue to how the brain really works? In this fascinating episode, memory researcher and ADHD coach Daniella Karidi helps us unravel the layers of how we remember, why we forget, and what makes memory especially tricky for those with ADHD. You’ll walk away questioning everything you thought you knew about remi…
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Burt Lancaster: The dashing leading man with the mad trapeze skills. Circus performer turned actor turned circus performer turned actor again... and producer. The man could do it all. He was hard-working, determined, and put his heart into the causes he believed in. Listen now! PATREON: patreon.com/starsofthegoldenagepodcast Episode Sources: a book…
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How an ADHD diagnosis was lost and found again (Nikki Daye’s story)
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27:42Nikki Daye, a school psychologist and ADHD advocate, grew up in the foster care system. She was diagnosed with ADHD as a child, but her medical records were eventually lost. As she got older, her ADHD diagnosis wasn’t considered. Instead, her symptoms were misdiagnosed as anxiety, PTSD, and bipolar disorder. While her ADHD diagnosis was “lost in tr…
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Emotional Support Animals: An Effective Tool for Highly Sensitive, Emotionally Intense Children
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28:13What if a pet could be more than just a companion for your child? For children with heightened emotions or emotional dysregulation, pets can be a lifeline—offering more than just cuddles but playing a crucial role in helping them navigate the emotional ups and downs of everyday life. In today’s episode, I’m sharing a deeply personal story about Spa…
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Ep 325 – The Rogue Pharmacist: The Truth About Detox
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17:21“Detox” is a buzzword and a trend, but the science behind it often gets lost. In this episode of The Rogue Pharmacist, Ben explains what detox really means in terms of the liver, kidneys, and lymphatic function – and how this impacts the skin. Associated Skin Care Professionals (ASCP) presents The Rogue Pharmacist with Benjamin Knight Fuchs, R.Ph. …
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Some of the more unhinged writing on superintelligence pictures AI doing things that seem like magic. Crossing air gaps to escape its data center. Building nanomachines from simple components. Plowing through physical bottlenecks to revolutionize the economy in months. More sober thinkers point out that these things might be physically impossible. …
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Cathy Young’s new hit piece on Curtis Yarvin (aka Mencius Moldbug) doesn’t mince words. Titled The Blogger Who Hates America, it describes him as an "inept", "not exactly coherent" "trollish, ill-informed pseudo-intellectual" notable for his "woefully superficial knowledge and utter ignorance". Yarvin’s fans counter that if you look deeper, he has …
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President Trump’s approval rating has fallen to near-historic lows. With economic disruption from the tariffs likely to hit next month, his numbers will probably get even worse; this administration could reach unprecedented levels of unpopularity. If I were a far-right populist, I would be thinking hard about a strategy to prevent the blowback from…
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AI Futures Project is the group behind AI 2027. I’ve been helping them with their blog. Posts written or co-written by me include: Beyond The Last Horizon - what’s behind that METR result showing that AI time horizons double every seven months? And is it really every seven months? Might it be faster? AI 2027: Media, Reactions, Criticism - a look at…
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[I haven’t independently verified each link. On average, commenters will end up spotting evidence that around two or three of the links in each links post are wrong or misleading. I correct these as I see them, and will highlight important corrections later, but I can’t guarantee I will have caught them all by the time you read this.] ttps://www.as…
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(original post: Come On, Obviously The Purpose Of A System Is Not What It Does) … Thanks to everyone who commented on this controversial post. Many people argued that the phrase had some valuable insight, but disagreed on what it was. The most popular meaning was something like “if a system consistently fails at its stated purpose, but people don’t…
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Hedda Hopper & Louella Parsons (sensory-sensitive)
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35:02Hedda Hopper & Louella Parsons (sensory sensitive, no background/transition music) The two Nosiest Nellie's in Hollywood history! They could make careers and they could ruin careers. Listen now to hear about each of their rises to fame of becoming the most powerful gossip columnists in the golden age of Hollywood. PLUS a little extra surprise... CO…
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EP215: Parenting Siblings: Neurodiversity, Conflict & Fairness
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32:07Sibling tension is a normal part of family life, but when one or more kids are neurodivergent, the challenges can feel even more intense. In this episode, we peel back the layers of comparison, conflict, and misunderstanding to reveal what’s really going on beneath the surface. Join us as we explore how to support every child’s needs, create a sens…
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Ep 324 – Wellness at Home: Exploring Beauty and Tech with Sherrie Tennessee
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20:11This week on ASCP Esty Talk, we’re joined once again by the brilliant Sherrie Tennessee—a trailblazer at the intersection of wellness, beauty, and technology. With a PhD in hospitality administration and more than two decades of experience in wellness and spa management, Sherrie shares how modern innovations are transforming self-care practices at …
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The two Nosiest Nellie's in Hollywood history! They could make careers and they could ruin careers. Listen now to hear about each of their rises to fame of becoming the most powerful gossip columnists in the golden age of Hollywood. PLUS a little extra surprise... COCKTAIL PARTY! PATREON: https://patreon.com/StarsoftheGoldenAgePodcast Episode Sourc…
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Women Rising: Reclaiming Our Power, Health, and Voice With Julie Bjelland, LMFT
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19:30In this episode, I’m sharing something deeply personal and profoundly urgent. After years of working with women around the world—especially sensitive and neurodivergent women—I’ve seen a heartbreaking pattern: a lack of belief in self, chronic disempowerment, silencing, medical dismissal, and burnout. And yet, it’s women who are most needed right n…
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Fatty Arbuckle & The Death of Virginia Rappe (special crossover with The Wanted Files podcast!)
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26:43Enjoy this special extra episode... a crossover episode with The Wanted Files podcast covering the death of actress Virginia Rappe and the trials of superstar Fatty Arbuckle following her mysterious death. If you want to hear more of The Wanted Files, find The Wanted Files with A.C. Roberts wherever you listen to your podcasts! Advertising Inquirie…
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#218 - Sara Barrick, LMFT "Demystifying Misophonia"
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51:54Today we’re reconnecting with a guest who many of you will remember from one of our most popular episodes a couple of years ago. Sara Barrick, formerly Sara Bidler, has returned to share more of her invaluable insights. Since we last spoke, Sara has published her book "Demystifying Misophonia," which I highly recommend to all our listeners. As a li…
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The conclusion of Rock Hudson's story (sensory-sensitive... no transition/background music) Episode Sources: A book titled Rock Hudson: His Story by Sara Davidson and Rock Hudson; a documentary titled Rock Hudson: All that Heaven Allowed; amfAR.org; Wikipedia; IMDB Image Source: IMDB Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt…
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EP214: The Secret to Letting Go: Supporting Teens Without Micromanaging
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38:46Parenting through transitions isn’t just about preparing your child for what’s next. It’s also about redefining your own role in the process. In this episode, Elaine and Melanie dive into the emotional shifts, mindset changes, and quiet growth moments that often go unseen. If you've ever wondered how to stay connected while letting go, or how to su…
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Ep 323 – The GLP-1 Effect on Beauty, Body, and Skin
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24:06GLP-1 RA medications like Ozempic and Wegovy are transforming more than waistlines—they’re reshaping beauty standards and creating new challenges and opportunities in skin care. Rapid weight loss can lead to loose skin, facial volume loss, and dehydration, making professional esthetics care more important than ever. This episode of ASCP Esty Talk e…
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The conclusion of Rock Hudson's story. Episode Sources: A book titled Rock Hudson: His Story by Sara Davidson and Rock Hudson; a documentary titled Rock Hudson: All that Heaven Allowed; amfAR.org; Wikipedia; IMDB Image Source: IMDB Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy…
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ADHD, autism, and the pressure to be “man enough” (Shane Thrapp’s story)
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25:55Shane Thrapp always felt different. As an adult, he found out he has both ADHD and autism — two parts of his brain that sometimes work against each other. In this episode, Shane shares the weight of masking his symptoms, and how society’s ideas about “real men” can make it even harder to speak up. Today, Shane is helping other men with ADHD as the …
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30. Why Play Is Essential for Parenting Emotionally Intense Children (Emotional Regulation… Bonus!)
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38:18Get Your FREE Ticket to the Calm Connection Parenting Summit If your child melts down, shuts down, or struggles to find the words to explain what’s wrong—you’re not alone. And you’re not failing. In this episode, we’re joined by play expert and counselor Deborah Woods to explore how play can become one of the most powerful tools for connection—espe…
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Ep 322 – The Rogue Pharmacist: Navigating Allergies and Skin Sensitivities
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14:05Allergies and skin sensitivities can be tricky to navigate, but understanding them is key to effective care. In this episode of The Rogue Pharmacist, Ben Fuchs helps us distinguish between sensitive, reactive, and allergic skin, explains common triggers and allergens, and breaks down what “hypoallergenic” products and calming ingredients really mea…
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29. Let’s Choose Less: Why Simplifying Life Helps Highly Sensitive and Emotionally Intense Kids Thrive
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35:17What if your child’s meltdowns aren’t just about behavior—but a cry for less? Less stimulation. Less pressure. Less chaos. If your sensitive or emotionally intense child seems to unravel in the hustle and overstimulation of everyday life, this episode will hit home. This week, Jami sits down with parenting coach, writer, and mom of four, Jenna Mich…
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