A Sensory Emotional Lens

Dec 06 2024 38 ep. 32 mins 3

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Join Occupational Therapist and mom of two Michele Parkins on a journey into the world of sensory-emotional processing on her weekly podcast. Meet people who live with, work with, support, and love children with these differences. In short episodes, you’ll learn ways to navigate tricky situations, hear insights, heartwarming stories, tips, and ways that we can playfully engage with children (and each other) to enhance social-emotional and sensory-motor experiences to bring about regulation, engagement, and ultimately joy in our relationships - and so much more.

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37. SEPs As a Road Map for Regulation and Engagement Through a Sensory Emotional Lens

Dec 06 2024 23 mins

Personality is a set of qualities that make up a person's character - their way of being. When we talk about someone's personality, we often describe the way they act and interact. For example, "he is the outgoing one who likes to talk a lot and try new things." Sensory Emotional Personalities describe the characteristics - the way an individual acts and interacts - based on the

36. "Being Mean" Through a Sensory Emotional Lens

Nov 18 2024 29 mins

We know that the way we take in sensation impacts how we feel and, in turn, how we act and interact. We've discussed the global emotional expressions of body-based experiences - emotions like anxiety, embarrassment, surprise, confusion, needy, etc. Today, we are going to dive into social situations and a topic that's been coming up lately - kids saying things to others that are unk

35. Potty Training Through a Sensory Emotional Lens

Oct 23 2024 24 mins

Potty training can be a rollercoaster of emotions for both caregivers and kids. The pressure and stress surrounding this milestone can feel overwhelming at times. Whether it's the comments from other caregivers or grandparents about it being "time" or the need to meet deadlines for preschool transitions, the pressure to help our kids achieve this goal can be intense. As we chatted

34. Halloween Through a Sensory Emotional Lens

Oct 14 2024 24 mins

Believe it or not, Halloween can sometimes seem more of a trick than a treat for our sensory emotional kids. On the surface we can see or sense the different sensory experiences that Halloween brings - lights and sounds of decorations, smells of candy and even decorations sometimes, and costumes of unfamiliar fabrics and textures. When we consider movement experiences, we can ant

33. Parent & Caregiver Stress Through a Sensory Emotional Lens

Oct 02 2024 28 mins

During any big transition or change in routine for our children, we spend a lot of time talking about how to support our kids, and we, as parents and caregivers, put all our effort into this. We focus on understanding the tricky behaviors of our children and preventing and responding to them. What we don't spend time on is what supports us as caregivers during busy, tricky, crazy s

32. Sensory Diets through A Sensory Emotional Lens

Sep 10 2024 39 mins

In this episode, we're looking at sensory diets and sensory breaks through a sensory emotional lens. Sensory diets provide opportunities throughout the day for a child to engage in sensory input to support regulation. In the Sensory Emotional Engagement Model, we know that the way we move our bodies and take in sensation impacts the way that we feel. We also know that children

31. Back-to-School through A Sensory Emotional Lens (Part 2)

Aug 27 2024 37 mins

Michele and Amanda are back to continue their conversation about supporting our sensory emotional kids in the classroom as we head back to school this year. Getting to know a new school, a new teacher, new routines, and expectations that are different from last year can be really overwhelming. We recognize that we all process sensory information differently and choose different way

30. Back-to-School through A Sensory Emotional Lens (Part 1)

Aug 14 2024 35 mins

Getting to know a new school, a new teacher, new routines, and expectations that are different from last year can be really overwhelming for some. We recognize that we all process sensory information differently and choose different ways of being according to our capacities to process information from the world and our bodies. In school, these ways of being can significantly impact

29. Rewards through A Sensory Emotional Lens

Jul 30 2024 22 mins

Like many common “go to” strategies, tangible rewards do not always work for all kids - particularly for individuals who process sensation differently than yourself and others. In fact, an offering of a reward for an expected behavior often has the opposite effect for some kids – again, particularly our sensory kids – and results in further dysregulation and lack of partici

28. Sibling & Peer Play Interactions through A Sensory Emotional Lens

Jul 24 2024 29 mins

Social interactions with peers and/or siblings is a common area of challenge for children (and all individuals) with sensory emotional differences. There is often a mismatch in how we think the social experience will go and how it actually goes. This mismatch leads to decreased success in social interactions and accompanying tricky behaviors when our kids are in social scenarios. T