I want to first say to all who end up on this blog, welcome. Welcome with loving arms, acceptance, and unconditional love to you and your highly sensitive child. Raising a highly sensitive, indigo, or empathic child that also happens to have brown or black skin is a very unique experience. I am sure it can make you as a parent feel like you aren’t dealing with all the same gifts and challenges as other parents. Highly sensitive children have very unique needs and should learn how to navigate the world without becoming overwhelmed. An overwhelmed and stressed out highly sensitive child cannot fully develop their gifts.

As an African American, I remember many important lessons I received as a child that my friends of European descent did not get, nor need, to navigate their lives. These lessons may seem strange and unnecessary to non-African Americans, but any African American parent knows the importance of The Talk regarding our interactions with police. Interactions with any white person in authority, from pre-school teachers to the local boys in blue, had to be navigated in a certain way to ensure our utmost safety in an unsafe world. The Talk was a lesson of safety.

If you are not a highly sensitive person and have the blessing of having an empath or highly sensitive child, I would like you to think of the lessons on this blog in a similar vein to The Talk. These lessons I cover may seem silly or unnecessary to someone not highly sensitive, but to us, these lessons are imperative to becoming a functioning HSP (highly sensitive person). HSPs are here to enlighten the world with our gifts. We want HSP children to be able to exist in the world without getting so overwhelmed they cannot share their talents with humanity.

Being an African American empath, I received The Talk, but no lessons on how to deal with having highly sensitive senses. I remember talk of “psychic dreams” of women in my family, but no real discussions about being highly sensitive and most importantly, how to protect and manage my gifts. Growing up in the 80s and 90s, discussions of energy, vibrations, sensitivity, or indigo children seemed reserved for white families and children. Some of these topics are still seen as “demonic” or sacrilegious in many African American communities today.

One thing I can tell you, as an adult empath, is that your child is not going to change. They will be HSPs their entire lives and most will likely become even more sensitive as they grow older, as I did. The best you can do for them is to help them manage and grow their gifts at a young age so they can be the best version of themselves as an adult. There are many techniques and schools of thought on HSPs that have proven effective for me and other HSPs. I would like to use this site to assist you in teaching your child how to grow their gifts and protect themselves in the process. They are not alone. You are not alone. Thank you for visiting.