Turn Down the Noise: A Practical Guide to Building an Emotionally Healthy Family in a Chronically Overstimulated World - Paperback

by Sarah Boyd (Author)

Overstimulation is an invisible epidemic in our world--and it is impacting you and your child more than you realize.

If you've felt overwhelmed and burnt out by the exhaustion of daily life, flattened by the sheer amount of noise and distraction in your home, your schedule, your brain you aren't alone.

What's more, overstimulation is a key driver of our children's behaviors, contributing to increased symptoms in anxiety, depression, and attentional diagnoses. In the fast-paced culture of our world, is it possible to set our children up to thrive in emotional health?

Sarah Boyd (M.Ed Psych), child and adolescent development expert and founder of the educational company Resilient Little Hearts, believes it is possible to turn down the noise of overstimulation and chronic stress for you and your family. In her new book, she gives you the psychological frameworks and simple practical tools to turn down the noise of overstimulation and stress, so that you can cultivate emotional health for your child and family.

Turn Down the Noise provides the strategies and tools to simplify your family life, including:

• The neuroscience of children's emotions, and why your brain leads you to often over-react in the hard parenting moments (& what to do instead)
• How to identify and navigate the trait of high sensitivity in yourself or your child
• A new way of approaching our growth as parents towards emotional maturity (without any perfectionism or guilt)
• Practical ways to reduce the pace of family life to prioritize connection, creative play and life-giving routines without sacrificing your most important values and responsibilities.
• How to cultivate healthy boundaries to navigate media and the online world to protect our souls from the invisible stressors of the modern environment
• Facilitate a deeper connection with your child or adolescent through their most formative years, laying a foundation for their future resilience & emotional health.