Adrienne Bishop Coaching

When my then 3-year-old daughter accidentally toppled a bookshelf during a timeout in her room (luckily, she was okay), I realized I needed to rethink my approach to parenting. Nothing was working to get her to cooperate! But I was clueless about where to begin or what to do. I felt powerless to stop fighting with my daughter, all while trying to manage feeling overwhelmed and anxious all the time.

Then a few years later, I discovered that me and all 3 of my children were “highly sensitive”and everything started to make sense. In parenting my kids with traditional parenting – timeouts, rewards, etc. – I was ignoring connection with them, I was ignoring their need for control, I was ignoring their natural temperaments, and ended up fighting an uphill battle as a result.

Soon I found the parenting philosphy “positive discipline” which encourages intrinsic motivation, emotional intellingence and connection above all else. I began to understand how being highly sensitive was affecting me emotionally and my children and as I worked to shift my mindset to meet them in the middle and honor with their unique temperaments, our relationships improved. The latest tool I started to use was learning when I was being “triggered” by my kids – which means when you unconsiously respond from childhood programming and as a result, I was finally able to stop those reactions that I felt really couldn’t control, and I finally felt better.

So now, using the tools that have worked wonders for me—and helped many clients in the years of I have been a coach—I help you to become the calm, confident, and connected parent your sensitive children need to be cooperate, feel trust, safety, and confidence. Through hypnosis techniques based in the latest neuroscience research, I help you to be more in control of your reactions while teaching you effective parenting strategies that encouarge emotional intelligence.

If this sounds like where you are in your parenting journey, I would love to support you in helping you learn to naviagate parenting your sensitive child. Let’s get started.