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Parenting Highly Sensitive Kids and Youth with Alane Freund and Julie Cusmariu: Raising and Caring for Emotional, Reactive and Empathic Kids.

Julie Cusmariu — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 02:16:38 +0000

Come join me and Alane Freund on Friday February 18th at 10:30 am PST/

1:30 p.m. ET for an online workshop for Highly Sensitive People on Emotional, Reactive and Empathic Kids.

Come listen, ask your questions directly and gain insight, knowledge and practical advice for caring for yourself and the children and youth you are raising and nurturing.

We look very forward to welcoming you!

About this event

Highly sensitive children and youth think and process deeply, have strong emotional reactions, notice subtleties, and have deep empathy–significantly more than their peers. Numbering at about one in five, these youngsters can become easily overstimulated, or overaroused, to use the psychological term.

Becoming so overstimulated makes emotional self-regulation terribly challenging for these kids. However, HSC and HSY’s emotional reactivity is also a superpower. They know, before anyone else, how to “read the room” because their empathy and emotional responsiveness is emotional leadership. Highly sensitive kids who are well regulated manage their emotional responsiveness with fluidity, but the nature of these children and teens is that they will spend time every day overstimulated and dysregulated if they are participating in western youth culture, including attending school daily, exposure to screens, and inadequate physical exercise.

Highly sensitive moms and parenting professionals, Alane Freund and Julie Cusmariu, will lead us in an overview of both the challenges and tools in parenting sensitive youngsters and weathering their emotional lives.

Alane Freund, LMFT is an International Consultant on High Sensitivity, a therapist (and equine-assisted therapist) and speaker for highly sensitive people. She is also a cherished guest of the podcast, Julie in Conversation.

You can get to know Alane Freund from one of our two previous podcast conversations listed below. Alane works closely with Dr. Elaine Aron, author of The Highly Sensitive Person, who began pioneering research on high sensitivity 30 years ago and continues to do research on it now, also calling it Sensory-Processing Sensitivity (SPS, the trait’s scientific term).

You can take these self-tests created by Dr. Elaine Aron:

Are you Highly Sensitive?

https://hsperson.com/test/highly-sensitive-test/

Is your Child Highly Sensitive?

https://hsperson.com/test/highly-sensitive-child-test/

1st podcast conversation with Alane Freund on Julie in Conversation the #Motherhood #LetsCreateAVillage

2nd podcast conversation with Alane Freund on Julie in Conversation on managing and thriving as a Highly Sensitive Person in uncertain times.

alanefreund.com & areyouhighlysensitive.com

As a consultant, therapist, and speaker for highly sensitive people, Alane Freund, LMFT (a California credential: Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist), has helped adults, youth, and families focus on solutions through psychotherapy and consultation for over three decades.

An International Consultant on High Sensitivity (ICHS), Ms. Freund has developed and implemented programs for highly sensitive people, children, families, and the clinicians who serve them. She holds Masters’ degrees in both clinical psychology and school counseling and is the parent of a highly sensitive young adult. Ms. Freund’s Talk at Google, Understanding the Highly Sensitive Person, has over 300K views.

She hosts the twice monthly “Are You Highly Sensitive LIVE” Q&A webinars and leads groups and retreats, including Parenting Sensitivity Circles, Sensitive & Anxious Teens, Wise Women & Wonder, and the HSPs & Horses retreats both online and at Heart and Mind Equine in Marin County, California.

Alane offers team building and educational workshops and retreats across the globe, including at Kripalu-Massachusetts, 1440 Multiversity-California, Leading Edge Seminars-Toronto, Menla Retreat Center-New York, Art of Living Institute-North Carolina, and the California Institute for Integral Studies-San Francisco. She can be reached for consultation or speaking through her website, alanefreund.com or via her YouTube channel: Alane Freund LMFT.

Julie Cusmariu, PCC, CMC

Julie is a Certified Life Coach, PCC, Certified Mentor Coach, Intuitive Consultant and Facilitator and Podcast Host and Producer with over 15 years experience in the field of coaching, healing and transformation. Julie works with creatives, leaders, entrepreneurs, executives, artists, parents and people interested in their own well-being and that of their families, neighbours and planet. Julie supports individuals in trusting their intuition to make better decisions, gain clarity, lead with meaning and purpose and be a voice of change. Julie supports individuals in all areas related to leadership and decision making, career, personal development, and life transitions. Julie is the host and producer of Julie in Conversation, a live weekly podcast featuring bestselling authors, scientists, psychologists and thought leaders contributing to individual and collective healing and change. Julie is based in Montreal, Canada and works with individuals and groups worldwide.

www.JulieCusmariu.com www.JulieinConversation.com

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Self-care, self-compassion and how about self-acknowledgement? asks, Montreal Life Coach and Certified Mentor Coach Julie Cusmariu

Julie Cusmariu — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 20:23:19 +0000

Often in my life coaching sessions with clients I ask them what they want to acknowledge themselves for. It’s not an obvious question and often it is first met with resistance. BUT it bares asking, and asking often.

Can you imagine what it might feel like to rest in a moment of acknowledgement for yourself for who you are, what you have created and what has come before you until this moment right here, right now? What might come in to your awareness? What might you feel about yourself? Something good, I hope. Or at least in wondering it may placate the waters of self-criticism and dampen the volume on the external chatter and endless voices (yours and others) containing the elements of what you should have, could have and would have done.

A little recognition for yourself can go a long way. Some celebration, some awareness of progress, what exists as true to you; your gifts, talents, desires, strengths and accomplishments too. It’s certainly worth the practice. Noticing what is true about you?

Waddya think?

This past week I did a podcast which turned out to be about self-acknowledgement. Thanks to some precious videos I stumbled upon of my boys when they were 5 and 3 years old (4 years ago). Instead of falling into the familiar feelings about time elapsed, self judgement, and comparison, I was surprisingly overcome by more positive feelings, in fact feelings that reflected how extremely aware I was at how much I have experienced, learned, received, given and who I have been for the last almost 10 years as a parent. It was profound for me because I really felt it. What might you acknowledge yourself for? Today? This month? This year? The last 10 years? This lifetime? Or even be curious about what acknowledgement for yourself might look like and feel like.

I’m here to listen and celebrate you too. Share your comments. Thoughts. Feelings.

All the best,

Julie Cusmariu

Montreal Certified Life Coach & Certified Mentor Coach

#lifecoach #selfacknowledgement #selfcare #selfcompassion #icfcoach #mentorcoach #certifiedlifecoach #mindfulawareness #intuitioncoach

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Nicole Schiener, Psychotherapist

Julie Cusmariu — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 03:58:21 +0000

Nicole Schiener, Psychotherapist, lives in Ontario, Canada. She is a writer, speaker and advocate for truth and justice. @mindfulmama_nsm
“Mental health is social justice.”

We talk about where we are right now, in this pandemic and ways to navigate life, mental health, social justice and healthy relationships.

Listen and as you do, notice what is present within you and what you may need in this moment, the moment you are in, whenever you listen in.

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Werk It- A Women’s Podcast Festival in LA

Julie Cusmariu — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 03:00:16 +0000

I’m werking. For Voices that Create Change, a podcast series. And #Motherhood #LetsCreateAVillage, my previous podcast series (39 episodes). And Conscious Pregnancy Empowering Birth an even earlier podcast series and there’s more. Werking to learn, deepen, widen the reach and conversation. Always intimate, always with the intention to offer a healing audio experience that creates change individually and collectively. I’m committed and it’s fun, a combo that sustains the creation of it all. Thanks for listening with me. A montreal based production serving a worldwide audience.
#JulieinConversation

#werkitfestival #wnyc #wnycstudios #la #acehotel #montreal #montrealpodcaster #change #voicesthatcreatechange #intuition #embodiment #ittakesavillage #openmindopenheart #compassion #learning #canadianpodcaster #indiepodcaster #diypodcast #spreaker #patreon #listenersupported

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The Bonus Episode- The Mother’s Day Revue

Julie Cusmariu — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 17:05:38 +0000

Featuring a special conversation with my mother and other guests including Helané Wahbeh, Alane Freund, Trine Veiss Mikkelsen, Kimberley Manning, Renee Trudeau and more.

Topics covered: Sensitivity- The Highly Sensitive Person and Child, Intuition (The Science of), Feminism, Women’s menstrual health, the keys to self-care and more.

It was fun and meaningful and its jam packed with practical tools and insight to help navigate the journey through motherhood. There is lots to glean.

Enjoy.

If you’re gaining value from these conversations please consider helping the podcast continue and thrive by making a one time donation or by joining the amazing group of patrons offering monthly donations for as little as $3/month (that’s less than a coffee!).

Both can be found by scrolling on my website a little further down www.JulieinConversation.com or here
http://www.Patreon.com/JulieinConversation.com

Thank you.

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Show notes:

*8:22

Marion Light – Invitation to be present www.MarionLight.com

– “the past and our future exist in the present moment”

An intimate conversation with a very special guest, my mother.

*14.50

*36:28

Intuition. The Science of Channeling and Intuition-

Helané Wahbeh- www.Noetic.org, ND, MCR is the Director of Research at The Institute of Noetic Sciences

Ancestral healing.
“we could expand into our full selves as mothers that would then influence the next generation because not only are we mothers of daughters, but we’re mothers of sons and if we are a free balanced woman, we are more capable of raising balanced and free men and women.

*46:44- What is channeling?

“You don’t need to go outside of yourself to find the answers that you need.”

*56:02 Who am I? – Helané Wahbeh

*01:03:00- 11 minute meditation WHO AM I? Guided by Julie

*01:12:56- Renée Trudeau www.ReneeTrudeau.com- is an internationally recognized transformational coach/speaker and author.

Managing our energy not managing our time.

*01:18:38- Alane Freund, MS, MA, LMFT, has helped youth and families focus on solutions. An advanced certified consultant for highly sensitive people, Ms. Freund has worked closely with Dr. Elaine Aron.

“Sensitivity is a super-power, it’s always an asset.”

*01:33:33- Irene Lyon. Nervous System Specialist. www.IreneLyon.com

“I call it biological embodiment. It’s really getting into the body, but it’s more than just going out for a walk or exercising or going to yoga. It’s really learning to listen to our impulses biologically.”

*01:36:40- Trine Veiss Mikkelsen, professional Yoga Therapist, Menstrual Health Coach, Life Coach

“The uterus is for each and every one of us. Our first home.

*0:145:18- Kimberley Manning, Ph.D.- Principal of The Simone de Beauvoir Institute- Concordia University. A parent, political scientist and passionate advocate.
“It took me until that moment to really, really ask myself, well, what do you think? Right? Instead of what does everybody else think about this? And it, it took me, I mean, I was however old I was 43 when I finally 44 that I finally began to ask myself those questions. Well, what do you think [inaudible] model? And then the other question that I was asking myself too was, you know, okay, you’re 43 or 44, w you know, what, what are those things that you really want to do? And, and, and now’s the time, like, when, when else are you going to do this work?

“I choose to use the word parent to bring attention to the fact, or not necessarily only to bring the attention about, or maybe it is, you’ll tell me, but you said these words to bring attention to the fact that parenting is a gendered activity. “

“Feminism is a practice, it’s a work in progress and it requires constant reflection and, and revisiting and reading…”

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