Sensitive Kids Course

It's not that you're "too soft." And it's not that your child is "too sensitive." They're wired to feel everything. Here's how to help them feel safe in their body — and in the world. A specialist course built on play therapy, nervous system regulation, and the Four Needs of the Sensitive Child™.

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Sensitive kids have heightened emotions.

The world can feel “too much”, too noisy, too rough, too many people… they get overloaded by an intensity that other people don’t even pick up on!

And parenting highly sensitive kids can be overwhelming too!

It’s hard to know if you should push them past their comfort zone so they can learn to be more resilient and they can learn to handle more, or if you should listen to their needs!

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Hey, it's Emma here.

For years, I didn't realise how sensitive one of my sons really was.

I always thought he was Strong Willed. He could be inflexible, whiny, get stuck on needing things a particular way. He'd hang back when we met new people. He'd get upset with everyone during games. He could get so worked up that we'd sometimes have to leave places and drive around just to shift the energy.

The other kids could flow with most things, play for hours, try new things, just stand within themselves in a way that looked easy.

I was implementing everything we teach in Reconnected Parenting, and yet something was still missing.

On a gut feeling, I asked Sarah Mann — our family's Naturopath, who you'll meet a little later on this page — to meet with him.

She helped me see what I'd been missing: he's highly sensitive.

He's aware of the micro-emotions of everyone around him. He needs time to decide things, and when he's rushed his nervous system goes into freeze. He feels personally responsible for so much of what happens in our home. He worries and feels everything!

The moment we started parenting his sensitivity instead of fighting it, our days began to smooth out. We stopped holding our breath when the other kids walked into his game. We stopped choosing whether to leave the house based on his mood.

If any of that sounds familiar, you're in exactly the right place.

Does this sound like you?

You say no to them — even gently, even about something small — and they are heartbroken. Not just disappointed. Heartbroken. And your own heartbreaks! It is so hard to set boundaries because they get so crushed.

They go silent around new people, even people they've met before. The chatterbox at home becomes the child hiding behind your legs at the door.

They notice everything — the new soap, the shift in your tone, the argument the couple at the next table had ten minutes ago.

Loud voices feel like yelling to them, even when no one is actually yelling.

They worry about things that haven't happened yet, and might never happen. Storms. Fires. Whether their teacher is angry with them. Whether you might forget to pick them up.

They apologise when they don't need to, and check your face to make sure you're not upset.

You've tried gentle parenting. You've tried firmer parenting. You've read the books. Something is still missing.

If you're nodding along, you're in the right place.

You have a child whose nervous system feels everything! And if everything you have tried up until now… you are in the right place.

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You might have found
your way here because
you are desperate
for solutions

If you have a sensitive child, no doubt you have tried lots of different strategies to bring more regulation into your home and more confidence into your child.

The thing is, the standard advice doesn’t quite fit a sensitive nervous system.

“Build their resilience” backfires. “Just let them feel their feelings and empathise” is a never ending spiral.

Even the gentle, attached, conscious parenting approaches, they help, but something is still missing for this particular child.

We want to reassure you: there’s a reason it can feel like nothing is quite working. Sensitive Kids have unique needs.

We’ve parented sensitive kids ourselves. We’ve worked with thousands of families raising them. And over the years, we’ve built the lens, the language, and the practical tools that actually fit how these children are wired — so you can stop second-guessing yourself, and start parenting in a way that holds.

When nothing else has worked, this will.

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Hi, we are Eleanor and Emma, founders of The Reconnected.

Between us, we hold qualifications in breathwork, play therapy, psychology and counselling — and 11 children. Emma is mother to two sensitive kids of her own. Eleanor has spent over a decade working with sensitive children through her clinical play therapy and counselling practice. Together we hold both a personal lens and a professional one. Both are why we're here.

We started The Reconnected in 2019 because we wanted parenting practices that were intentional, intuitive, and nervous-system-based — practices that would actually support us as parents, not just hand us another set of strategies to forget at the worst moment.

The kids in our practice, and the kids at home, needed that. Especially the defiant ones, the dreamers, and the ones who fell apart quietly at the end of the day. The ones we now call sensitive.

What began as our flagship course, Reconnected Parenting, has grown to tens of thousands of families across the world. The Sensitive Kids Course is the specialist work that came from listening to those families — and from collaborating with Naturopath Sarah Mann, who you’ll meet shortly.

We’d be honoured for your family to walk this path with us.

The Four Needs of the Sensitive Child™

Over years of clinical practice - and listening closely to the sensitive children we've worked with, and the ones we've raised - we've come to see that sensitive kids are driven by four core needs.

This is a framework you won't find in any other parenting course.

When even one of these needs is unmet, it shows up everywhere - in the tears, the clinginess, the worry, the way they shrink in new rooms. When the right need is met at the right moment, your child softens. And so does your home.

Your child won't have all four needs equally. One or two will dominate at any given stage. The course teaches you to identify which need is driving any given moment, and meet it.

Not after they're overwhelmed. Before.

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Need 01 — Warming Up

The body warmth and embodiment that lets sensitive kids feel safe, settled and at home inside their own skin.

When this need is unmet, sensitive kids live in their head, thoughts, worries and nerves. Their hands and feet stay cold even under layers. They're tricky to warm up, literally and metaphorically. Their body feels far away from them - more like a thing to manage than a comfortable place to be.

When this need is met, they drop into their body. They feel relaxed. They feel protected. Their sense of self begins to settle, because they finally feel themselves from the inside.

We show you how to recognise the Warming Up need and meet it with practices that bring your child into their body.

Need 02 — Emulating the Boundary

The felt, physical experience of their own edges - where they end and the world begins.

When this need is unmet, sensitive children lean so deeply into other people's feelings that they lose their own footing. They feel exposed, as though a layer of padding is missing. They take on moods that aren't theirs. They can't tell where they end and someone else begins - and they become responsible for things that aren't theirs to carry.

When this need is met, their nervous system can finally let go of the constant scan. They feel enveloped, anchored, safe inside their own skin.

We show you how to help them borrow your steadiness while their own sense of self grows underneath.

Need 03 — Claiming Space

Permission, language, and confidence to take up space in their own body, their own home, friendships, and the world.

When this need is unmet, sensitive kids shrink. They apologise for asking. They go along with what the louder child wants. They miss the bus stop and can't tell anyone. They stand in line and don't get served, because no one knew they were there. They become so attuned to everyone else's feelings that they lose track of their own - and they don't yet have the place to say what they actually want.

When this need is met, they begin to want things again - out loud. They say what they need without flinching. They take their seat at the table.

We show you how to help them find their voice, their body, and feeling comfortable taking up space in their own life.

Need 04 — Feeling at Home

The deep, body-based sense of feeling at home in themselves - before they can ever feel at home in the world.

When this need is unmet, the world feels like too much. The lights are too bright, the noise is too loud, the day stretches on too long. Their nervous system stays on alert even when nothing's wrong. Underneath it all is a quiet ache for a kind of peace they can't quite name - a kind of spiritual homesickness.

When this need is met, their nervous system softens. The world stops feeling sharp. They come home to themselves, and from there, everything else becomes possible.

We show you how to support their nervous system gently, with help that meets sensitive kids where they are. This is the need our Naturopath Sarah Mann particularly speaks to — and it's the piece that no other parenting course addresses.

What home starts to feel like.

The shifts you'll notice in your child, in you, in the rhythm of your week.

A more regulated, grounded, safe feeling can permeate your whole family nervous system. It already exists, it's just underneath the overwhelm, and meeting the needs.

Here is what typically shifts for the families who join the Sensitive Kids Course.

In your child:

When they get startled or anxious, they meet it in a new way. There’s strength alongside their sensitivity.

Bedtime becomes easier. They settle without the long anxious unwinding.

The stomach ache before school happens less. Then rarely. Then almost never.

They can embrace new places and people with a quiet curiosity. Still sensitive to newness, but they take their time and are quietly confident.

In you:

You stop bracing for the next meltdown. Your shoulders soften.

You can sit with their worry without absorbing it. Your nervous system stays yours. You stop rescuing.

When they’re in their storm, you stay the steady ground. You don’t get swept into it.

You stop apologising for your own sensitivity. You let it become useful.

In your home:

Mornings get easier. Less rushing. Less starts to the day that feel exhausting.

Bedtimes and separations feel smooth. Your child can settle independently.

Sundays feel different. The dread about Monday loses its grip.

The whole family nervous system steadies, you can take a breath!

None of this happens all at once. But it does happen.

And the families who walk this path tell us, again and again, that the change isn't in the techniques. It's in the way they finally see their child.

The body of a sensitive child.

Most parenting courses stop at behaviour. Sensitive kids live in their bodies in a particular way — and the body is often where their sensitivity expresses itself.

The sleep that won't come. The stomach that hurts on Sunday nights. The exhaustion at 4pm. The immune system that drops at every school break.

This is the piece that no other parenting course addresses.

Sarah Mann — Clinical Naturopath

Sarah is a Clinical Naturopath trained in Steiner-based Anthroposophic Medicine, children's health and development, breathwork, somatic work, and herbal medicine. She specialises in supporting sensitive children to feel at home in their bodies and in the world.

Sarah is also a sensitive child grown up and the mother of a sensitive child of her own. She's the Naturopath who walks alongside the Reconnected families. She is the one Emma called when something still felt missing with her sensitive son, even after everything we teach in Reconnected Parenting was already in place.

Her work with sensitive children is the missing piece in parenting education.

What Sarah's module covers

How a sensitive child's nervous system shows up in their body — and how to read the signals

Sleep, the single most underrated tool you have with a sensitive child

The gut–brain–sensitivity connection, and what to actually do about it

Immune patterns in sensitive kids — why they go down every school break, and how to support the cycle

Specific body-based practices for the moments your child is dysregulated, and the moments before

You have probably wondered how to support your Sensitive Child's body to be more robust and vital, and this module will show you how.

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But what if my kid is explosive — isn't that Strong Willed?

The most common thing we hear from parents on this page is:

"My kid sometimes explodes. Doesn't that make them Strong Willed?"

Not necessarily. Sensitive kids can be explosive too — but the why is completely different. And so is what they need from you.

A Strong Willed Kid explodes in a fight response They're standing their ground, refusing the path you're offering, making themselves big.

A Sensitive Kid explodes from being flooded. Their nervous system has taken in more than it can hold, and the only way through is out. The explosion is the cork coming off the bottle of everything they've absorbed, and it is a whiny, defeated no!

If you mistake one for the other, the strategies that should work make things worse. Holding firm with a flooded sensitive kid intensifies the flooding. Soothing a Strong Willed kid mid-fight reads as permission to keep escalating.

The work of telling the difference — and knowing what to do in each case — is the work of this course.

✨ Included in your enrolment: Explosive Behaviour in Sensitive Kids.

A dedicated bonus session that shows you how to recognise the difference between a fight explosion and a flooded one, what's actually happening inside your child's body in each, and what to say (and not say) in the moment.

Because every sensitive parent who's watched their child go from gentle to volcanic in under five seconds needs this piece. And we don't know of any other parenting course that addresses it properly.

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The course is grounded in play therapy as a practical, embodied application of the latest research in attachment and nervous system regulation. It’s specialist work — built for sensitive kids, and only for sensitive kids.

What you’ll work through.

Welcome to the Inner World of a Sensitive Child

Get insight into our unique “Reconnected” approach to parenting. Gain a paradigm shift in your perspective on the behaviour of Sensitive Children.

When we embrace our role as parents with the intention of personal and spiritual growth, the whole family reaps the rewards.

In this Introduction, we share with you the beginning steps of understanding the landscape of the Sensitive Child and their internal world.

This perspective shift ALONE creates a sense of ‘relief’ within the often draining relationships we have with our Sensitive Kids.

In addition, this perspective is critical in order to truly shift dynamics and habits at the root cause rather than putting a bandaid on the situation until the next time it all becomes too much!

Module 01. Understanding the Nervous System of a Sensitive Child

Very often we end up focusing on the behaviours of our highly Sensitive Children, rather than the underlying needs that our children may be expressing or struggling to have met.

In our experience, we have found there are four unique needs driving the Sensitive Child.

If we can understand and meet the needs of the child, then we will be able to support and guide the positive aspects of our Sensitive Child.

In this module we begin to explore the nervous system, regulation and the Four Needs of the Sensitive Child™.

Module 02. Regulate the Body, Regulate the Nervous System — with Naturopath Sarah Mann

Sensitive Kids have sensitive bodies. Their sensitivity shines through how they look and move, in their development and in their health too.

In this module, learn why you can be doing ALL the ‘right’ things; providing a clean healthy diet, no chemicals in the house, time in nature, natural fabrics, natural skincare, gluten/dairy/sugar/all the things free, calm environment and STILL…your child can have health issues.

With Sarah’s background in Naturopathy and Anthroposophic Medicine, she takes you on a journey to understanding a deeper insight on health and how the physical body of the Sensitive Child is affected.

Module 03. Be the Parent Your Sensitive Child Needs — with Ease

It is an experience parenting Sensitive Kids!

We also acknowledge that everyones parenting journey is going to be different because as parents we too have different needs, some of us are Sensitive Parents and some of are Strong Willed Parents.

No matter what our individual needs are, we can find solutions to meet our Sensitive Child without sacrificing ourselves.

In this module, we explore the differences of Sensitive Parents vs Strong Willed Parents and the important areas to focus on depending on your internal landscape and what will best serve you!

Module 04. Activities to Meet the Four Needs of Your Sensitive Child

Here we bring together all your big perspective shifts about your Sensitive Kid, everything you now know about their highly attuned Nervous System and how this impacts their physical health, who they are in relationships and their inner thoughts and feelings.

In this module you transform all this new awareness and knowledge into tangible, practical activities and practices you can do with your Sensitive Kids to help them step into their thriving, integrated self.

Dive into the activities and practices for Parents, that help you to show up for your Sensitive Kid the way you’ve always to, with deeper acceptance, validation and trust, to hold their softness easily with awareness and strength.

Module 05. Reclaim Your Own Sensitivity, Steady Your Child’s

In this Module we integrate the knowledge throughout the course so far including reflective activities, Anthroposophic perspectives and Nervous System integration to focus on Parents of Sensitive Children.

In this module you will find activities and practices for Parents of Sensitive Kids

Module 06. Activities for Each of Your Child’s Four Needs

This module includes practical activities weaving together play therapy, naturopathy and Anthroposophic Medicine to address the Four Needs of your Sensitive Child.

In this module you will find activities to address grounding, physical health, nervous system regulation and connection for your Sensitive Child.

Connect deeply and reflect on the journey with your Sensitive Child throughout these activities.

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Everything inside the Sensitive Kids Course.

Sensitive kids course

You've seen what's inside. Here's everything that's yours when you join. Payment plans available.

$ 197

one-time payment

73 lessons across 4 modules + 2 practical sections
The Four Needs of the Sensitive Child™ framework
Specialist body-based module from Naturopath Sarah Mann
4 LIVE bonus recordings — including Explosive Behaviour in Sensitive Kids
Audio versions of every lesson
Lifetime access on app + web

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Our 7-day promise to you.

We know joining anything new is a tender moment — especially for sensitive parents.

Step inside, look around, listen to the first lessons. If within 7 days you don't feel like this is the right home for your family, email support@thereconnected.com and we'll refund you in full.

That's how confident we are this is the work your family has been looking for.

This is for you if…

1. Your child falls apart at the end of “fine” days.

Daycare drop-off is cheerful, the teacher reports a great day, the playdate looked perfect — and then they come home and dissolve. The chatterbox goes silent. The flexible kid digs in. The cork comes off the bottle of everything they absorbed today, and you’re the only one who ever sees this version of them.

2. You thought your child was Strong Willed.

They’re inflexible, sometimes explosive, get stuck on small things. And they’re tender, deeply affected by your tone, silent around new people, and exhausted at the end of a “normal” day. Sensitive kids can be all of those things at once.

3. You’re a sensitive parent yourself.

You grew up being told you were “too much” or “too sensitive,” and you’ve spent decades quietly suppressing it. Parenting a sensitive child is bringing all of that back up — and this course speaks to both of you.

4. Your child is neurodivergent.

ADHD, autism, PDA, sensory processing differences — and the standard parenting advice doesn’t account for the sensitivity underneath the wiring. This course sits alongside (not instead of) the clinical support your family already has.

5. You’ve tried everything.

Gentle parenting books, conscious-parenting courses, a counsellor, a paediatrician. The pieces help — and something is still missing for this particular child.

If any of those sound like home, you’re in exactly the right place.

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Meet your guides

Emma

Co-founder · Breathwork Practitioner · Author

Emma is mother to two sensitive children of her own. She is a published author, a qualified Breathwork Practitioner (Mastery in Rebirthing Breathwork), Kundalini Yoga teacher, and trained in Advanced Theta Healing and Mind Body Intuitive work. Co-founder of The Reconnected.

@newearth.mama

Eleanor

Co-Founder · Play Therapist · Counsellor · Breathwork Practitioner

Eleanor holds a BA of Psychology (Hons), a BA of Social Science (Counselling), and a Graduate Diploma in Child Centred Play Therapy. She has spent over a decade in clinical practice with parents and children — much of it working with sensitive and strong willed kids and the families raising them. Co-founder of The Reconnected. She brings 20 + years of personal practice in breathwork and embodied development to everything she teaches.

@eleanorbreathe

Sarah Mann

Clinical Naturopath · Sensitive Kids Specialist

Sarah is a qualified Naturopath trained in Steiner-based Anthroposophic Medicine, children's health and development, breathwork, somatic practices, and herbal medicine. She specialises in supporting sensitive children to feel at home in their bodies and in the world. Sarah was herself a sensitive child, and is now the mother of a sensitive young adult. Her body-based work is the missing piece this course offers that no other parenting program does.

"Gratitude for the new awarenesses, heart-felt validations, and tremendous hope that the Sensitive Kids Course has offered me, my son, and our family...Thank you, thank you, thank you."

EMILY, UNITED STATES

Questions before you join.

This is the question we hear most. The short version:

A Strong Willed Kid responds to stress with fight — they get defiant, push back, refuse, stand their ground.

A Sensitive Kid responds with freeze, fawn, or flood — they go quiet, people-please, get clingy, or fall apart when overwhelmed.

Sensitive kids can explode — but they explode from being overwhelmed not from fighting. The Explosive Behaviour bonus inside the course walks you through telling the difference. Email support@thereconnected.com if you'd like to discuss your family before joining.

Reconnected Parenting is our flagship program on play therapy, conscious parenting, and healing your own childhood patterns alongside your children's. It's the foundational course for any parent.

The Sensitive Kids Course is the specialist work for parents of sensitive children specifically — built on the Four Needs of the Sensitive Child™ framework, with the body-based health module from Naturopath Sarah Mann. If your child is sensitive, you can do this course standalone or alongside Reconnected Parenting.

We offer a 7-day money-back promise. If within 7 days of joining you don't feel like this is the right home for your family, email support@thereconnected.com and we'll refund you in full. No awkward forms, no shame, no follow-up emails. We part as friends.

Yes. The Four Needs framework sits alongside any clinical diagnosis or therapy your family is already engaged with — it doesn't replace clinical support. Many parents of neurodivergent children tell us this course names the sensitivity underneath the wiring in a way nothing else has.

The framework applies to sensitive children of any age, the lens stays the same, the way you apply it grows with them. Parents tell us it's most useful between ages 2 and 12, though the work continues to matter well beyond to adults. We believe it is NEVER too late to learn more, grow and understand our kids.

Lifetime access to all course materials and bonuses via The Reconnected App and the Reconnected Network.

Around 1 to 1.5 hours, including the lessons and the exercises. Some parents move slower, some faster. You have access on your own time — there's no cohort schedule.

Yes — we'd love that. We ask for one enrolment per family and that you don't share login details outside your household.

Yes — please. The skills are useful for anyone holding space for children. Note that this isn't a certification course; it's for personal practice and growth.