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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| My Experience | |
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| My Inspiration for Writing this Book | |
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| Pushing Past Barriers | |
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| Indigo Children | |
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| My Approach | |
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| Some Limits to this Work | |
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| An Invitation | |
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| who is the highly intuitive child? | |
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| Defining Intuition and Empathy | |
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| A Gift Set to the "On" Position | |
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| Stronger Intuition or Empathy Can Make a Difference | |
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| Intuitive Thinkers vs. Intuitive Feelers | |
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| Intuition in Action | |
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| How Do You Know If You Have an Intuitive Child? | |
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| The Strengths of Being an Intuitive Child | |
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| How Your Parental Response to Your Children Impacts Their Lives | |
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| Overview of the Ten Important Life Skills for Intuitive Children | |
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| common challenges faced by intuitive children | |
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| Telling the Difference Between Intuitions and Random Fears | |
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| Telling the Truth and Protecting Our Children | |
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| Challenges at School for the Intuitive Child | |
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| Magical Thinking vs. Intuition | |
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| Understanding the Intuitive Antenna | |
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| Intuitive Children Tuning in to the Pain of the World | |
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| stress and the intuitive child | |
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| Your Stress Is My Stress | |
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| Intuitive Empathy and Social Neuroscience Discoveries | |
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| The Intuitive Child under Stress | |
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| How to Spot Stress in an Intuitive Child | |
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| Trouble Asking for Help | |
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| How Collective Attitudes about Intuition Impact Children's Stress Levels | |
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| Social Stress for Intuitive Children | |
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| The Stress of Feeling Different | |
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| The Importance of Safety in Helping Intuitive Children Manage Stress | |
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| The Value of Meditation in Calming Children's Stress Levels | |
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| Review of Calming the Intuitive Child's Stress | |
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| when an intuitive child needs professional help | |
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| Anxiety | |
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| Depression | |
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| The Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) Question | |
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| Sensory Processing Disorder | |
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| Trauma and Intuitive Children | |
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| Finding Help for Your Child | |
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| the care and keeping of intuitive, empathic bodies | |
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| The Body Doesn't Lie | |
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| Teaching Children How to Trust Their Inner Yes and No | |
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| Similarities to the Highly Sensitive Child | |
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| What We Can Learn from Holistic Therapies | |
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| Diet | |
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| Exercise | |
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| Sleep | |
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| Home Energy Hygiene | |
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| Additional Settling at Bedtime | |
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| boundaries | |
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| Ducks and Sponges: Why Some Children Need More Support in Learning How to Set Boundaries | |
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| The Differences Between Intuitive and Empathic Boundaries | |
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| The Importance of a Clear Yes or No in Boundary Setting | |
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| Visualizing a Protection Bubble | |
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| Put It in a Bubble | |
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| Rebalancing after Boundary Intrusions | |
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| When Boundaries Become Complicated for Children | |
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| When a Situation Is Beyond Energy Deflection Skills | |
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| Empowered Boundaries and Exercising Flexibility | |
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| Intuitive Needs vs. Childhood Wants: Savvy Boundaries | |
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| Journaling Questions about Boundaries | |
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| parenting the intuitive child | |
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| Your Intuitive Child Is Watching You Closely | |
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| The Importance of Congruency in Communicating with Your Child | |
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| How Intuitive Children Can Tune in to Your Marriage | |
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| The Pros and Cons of Being a Sensate Parent to an Intuitive Child | |
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| Children and Conflicts | |
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| When Intuitive Children Overuse Their Gifts to Take Care of Others | |
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| Handling Sticky Situations Created by a Child's Telepathy | |
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| How Your Own Intuition Can Help Your Parenting | |
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| How Intuitive Children Respond to Parenting from the Heart | |
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| Parenting Based on Listening to and Respecting the Child | |
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| Being Kind to Yourself | |
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| teaching the ten skills | |
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| The "How" Behind Teaching the Skills | |
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| When to Teach the Skills | |
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| Understanding vs. Knowledge | |
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| Learning How to Tell the Difference Between Random Fears and Intuition | |
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| Regulating the Intuitive Antenna | |
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| Turning the Volume down on the Intuitive Dial | |
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| Cultivating an Intuitive Vocabulary | |
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| Paying Attention to What You Want and Need | |
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| Practicing Daily Energy Hygiene | |
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| Staying Grounded | |
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| Distinguishing Your Energy from That of Others | |
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| Handling Faulty Intuitive Conclusions/Checking Facts | |
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| Incoporating Intuitive Empathy into Everyday Life | |
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| art, play, and spirit for the intuitive child | |
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| Why Support Art and Play? | |
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| How to Support Creativity in Your Highly Intuitive Child | |
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| Supporting the Expression of Intense Emotions in Art | |
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| The Spiritual Life of the Highly Intuitive Child | |
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| what indigenous wisdom can teach us about highly intuitive children | |
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| Hawaiian Huna: What Can We Learn from this Powerful, Ancient System? | |
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| Inuit Wisdom and Intuitive Children | |
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| The Maya Voice of Wisdom | |
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| Intuitive Time vs. Linear Time and the Impact on Intuitive Children | |
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| all grown up now | |
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| What Intuitive Adults Can Teach Us about Parenting Intuitive Children | |
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| Discarding Outdated Coping Skills | |
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| Are You an Adult Intuitive Recovering Your Intuitive Gifts? | |
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| How This Is Different from Codependency | |
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| Embracing Your Feelings in the Healing Process | |
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| When an Intuitive Child Summons the Return of Your Intuitive Self | |
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| The Benefits of Making Peace with the Gift | |
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| In Closing | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| Index | |