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Printable Guide for Parents With Kids Who Are Highly Sensitive and Have Picky Eating, Disordered Eating, or Eating Disorders
What You Need to Feed Your Highly Sensitive Child!
- Understand high sensitivity and eating issues
- Improve mealtimes and reduce stress
- Increase your child’s coping skills
An EASY WAY to make a big DIFFERENCE in your child’s ability to eat!
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About Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) and Eating Disorders
People with eating disorders are more likely to be Highly Sensitive People (HSPs). High sensitivity is a genetic condition present in about 20% of humans as well as many other species from fruit flies to deer, wolves, and primates. HSPs tend to have strong food preferences and aversions that seem like an overreaction to others. They are also extremely sensitive to internal sensations like nausea and fullness as well as other people’s emotional states. This can make the family dinner table a stressful, frustrating place!
HSPs process sensory information more intensely and at higher speeds. This information comes in from their five senses, interoception (sensations coming from internal organs like the stomach), and neuroception (the sensation of other people’s emotional states) and is processed in the brain.
HSPs are at risk of becoming overstimulated quickly due to the volume and depth of sensory information their brains process. When overstimulated, both appetite and digestion shut down. This can lead to both under-eating when overstimulated and binge eating either as an attempt to cope and/or when overstimulation has caused under-eating and the body needs a high volume of calories to compensate.
People don’t overcome or recover from being highly sensitive since it is a biological trait, not a disorder. However, eating can be improved and risks can be managed with the support of trusted loved ones, emotional regulation skills, and personal boundaries. When this happens, HSPs thrive.
When parents understand the interaction between high sensitivity and eating, they can shape their behavior to support their child and avoid doing things that increase the risks. Parents can also teach HSPs the regulation skills they need to thrive.
A Guide Full Of Incredible Information You Can Use Again And Again
- Find out if your child is highly sensitive
- Understand how high sensitivity affects eating
- Learn how to help your child calm down and eat
- Perfect for Parents, Grandparents, Counselors, Dietitians, Therapists … and everyone in between
- Printable format means you can use them over and over
Parent-Friendly ❤️ Neurobiology ❤️ Attachment ❤️ Non-Diet ❤️ Health At Every Size®
What’s Included
This is an 11-page printable PDF that includes:
- Highly sensitive child traits
- Quiz: is my child highly sensitive?
- How sensitivity impacts eating
- Tips for eating with HSPs
- Emotional regulation checklist
- Quick-start guide to connection
- Script for when your child is overstimulated at the table
- Journal prompts for if you have a highly sensitive child
Note: This is a digital PDF for you to instantly download, print, and use again and again. Nothing will be mailed.
Created By Ginny Jones
Ginny Jones is on a mission to empower parents to help their kids recover from eating disorders, body image issues, and other mental health conditions. She’s the founder of More-Love.org, an online resource supporting parents who have kids with eating disorders, and a Parent Coach who helps parents who have kids with mental health issues.
Ginny has been researching and writing about eating disorders since 2016. She incorporates the principles of neurobiology and attachment parenting with a non-diet, Health At Every Size® approach to health and recovery.
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