The Spiritual Parent: Mindful Tools for Raising Spiritual and Conscious Kids
The Spiritual Parent
Spiritual Parenting. Conscious Connection. Modern Mysticism for Raising Sensitive, Intuitive, and Neurodivergent Children.
Welcome to The Spiritual Parent, a heart-centered podcast for parents who know there is more to parenting than behavior charts, schedules, and traditional advice. Hosted by Reverend Carrie Lingenfelter—former educator, mother of two, and spiritual guide—this podcast explores spiritual parenting, conscious parenting, mindful parenting, intuition, energy, and the deeper soul connection between parents and children.
Here, we talk about what it means to raise highly sensitive, intuitive, gifted, and neurodivergent children while staying connected to ourselves, our intuition, and the bigger spiritual picture. Through honest conversations and practical spiritual tools, Carrie explores topics like energetic connection, emotional regulation, intuition, energy healing, ancestral patterns, spiritual growth, conscious parenting, and personal transformation.
Each week, you'll find solo episodes filled with grounded spiritual insight, intuitive guidance, and tools you can bring into everyday family life, along with meaningful conversations with mystics, healers, educators, spiritual teachers, and visionaries.
The Spiritual Parent is for parents who want to move beyond simply managing their children and instead create deeper soulful connection, conscious relationships, and intentional parenting. If you're raising a sensitive or spirited child—or simply feel called to bring more intuition, presence, spirituality, and love into your parenting—you are in the right place.
Parent consciously. Trust your intuition. Connect with your child on a deeper level.
This is The Spiritual Parent.
Episodes
111 episodes
Why a Diagnosis — or Being Highly Sensitive — Can Feel Like Grief
When my kids received their labels, it took me two solid weeks of crying to process it — while my husband moved on almost instantly. Whether it’s an official diagnosis or simply realizing “my child is highly sensitive,” this episode is about th...
How to Help Your Sensitive Child Fall Asleep: A Guided Meditation for Kids
Join us for a gentle guided meditation for kids featuring a mama kangaroo and her joey—and a beautiful reminder that we are born with many of the tools we need for this lifetime already within us.In this short meditation, children are in...
How to Protect Your Sensitive Child's Energy: Spiritual Tools for Highly Sensitive Kids
In this episode of The Spiritual Parent, we’re talking about energy, sensitive children, and how kids can learn to recognize when they’re absorbing the emotions and energy of the people around them. I share simple spiritual tools for children—i...
Why You Were Chosen to Parent Your Child: The Deeper Meaning of Your Parenting Journey
What if there is a reason you were chosen to parent your child?In this episode of The Spiritual Parent, we go deeper into spiritual parenting, exploring the idea that our children may come into our lives for a reason—and that our own lif...
Is It Anxiety or Intuition? How to Trust Your Inner Knowing as a Parent
What if that feeling in your body isn't anxiety… what if it's intuition?In this episode of The Spiritual Parent, Carrie explores the powerful connection between parenting intuition, inner knowing, spirituality, and listening to your body...
How Grounding Yourself Can Transform Your Parenting
In this episode of The Spiritual Parent, Carrie explores what happens when we stop trying to be the “perfect” parent and begin reconnecting with our true selves.Through her message of “unleashing the frock,” Carrie talks about releasing ...
Embracing Emotional Sensitivity in Parenting: Transformative Insights with Catherine DeMonte
Uncover the hidden dynamics of parenting with me, Carrie, and my guest Catherine DeMonte, a seasoned marriage family child therapist. Together, we venture into the world of shadow work, revealing how childhood labels like "too sensitive" can af...
Stop the Sensory Meltdown: A Teacher's Guide to Classroom Calm for Your Highly Sensitive Child with DJ Stutz
Tired of the constant battles over school? If you're practicing conscious parenting or mindful parenting with a highly sensitive child or neurodiverse kid, you know the traditional classroom isn't built for them.This episode gives neurod...
Harnessing Supermoon Energy for Conscious and Spiritual Parenting Raising Neurodiverse Kids
Have your kids felt extra emotional, dysregulated, or “amped up” lately—and nothing you try seems to help?In this episode of The Spiritual Parent, Rev. Carrie Lingenfelter shares a real-time parenting experience during a powerful super m...
Designing for the Senses: Creating Calm, Connection & Harmony in Neurodiverse Homes with Stephanie Lee Jackson
What if your home could actually regulate your nervous system?In this eye-opening conversation, Carrie Lingenfelter sits down with Stephanie Lee Jackson, founder of Practical Sanctuary and creator of the emerging field of Sensory Interio...
From Perfectionism to Play: Rediscovering Joy and Authentic Parenting with Valerie Probstfeld
In this inspiring episode of The Spiritual Parent podcast, host Carrie Lingenfelter sits down with Valerie Probstfeld to explore what it really means to release perfectionism and live as your authentic self in motherhood. Valerie share...
Matrescence Explained: The Identity Shift of Motherhood with Therapist Vickie Victorenko
In this powerful episode of The Spiritual Parent Podcast, host Carrie Lingenfelter sits down with licensed clinical therapist Vickie Victorenko to explore the unspoken transformation every mother goes through: matrescence. Vic...
Soul Contracts & Spirit Animals: How Pets Support Neurodivergent & Sensitive Kids with Melissa Corrion
In this heart-centered episode, Carrie Lingenfelter sits down with intuitive animal communicator Melissa Corrion for a powerful conversation on the spiritual connection between animals and neurodivergent children. They explore how pets serve as...
Emma Smallbone on Autism, Integration, and Parenting with Emotional Awareness
In this powerful episode of The Spiritual Parent, host Carrie Lingenfelter sits down with Emma Smallbone to explore the deep intersections of integration, autism, emotional regulation, parenting, and self-discovery. Emma vulnerably shares her l...
Raising Sensitive Kids with Energy Tools: Muscle Testing, Tuning Forks & Authentic Parenting with Jen McNerney
Have you ever wondered how to raise highly sensitive, empathic, or neurodiverse kids in a way that truly honors their spirit? In this heartfelt episode of The Spiritual Parent, I sit down with fellow speech therapist and healer Jen McNerney to ...
Bonus: Releasing Control as a Spiritual Parent: Helping Sensitive Kids Find Their Own Strength
The first day of school isn’t just a milestone for our kids—it’s a deep emotional moment for us as parents. The mix of excitement, pride, sadness, and worry can feel overwhelming. In this heartfelt and honest episode of The Spiritual Parent...
Bonus: Are Our Kids Born With Superpowers? Raising Highly Sensitive, Neurodiverse, and Spiritually Gifted Children
What if your child's sensitivity isn't a weakness, but their greatest strength? As a speech therapist and parent of neurodiverse children, I've learned to navigate this delicate balance: acknowledging challenges while celebrating t...
Unconditional Love, Intuitive Kids, and Breaking the Box: A Spiritual Guide for Conscious Parents with Kara Anaya
Kara Anaya, Children's Advocate and Druidic Shaman, takes us on a transformative journey exploring the delicate dance between ego and echo in our psyches. She reveals how these seemingly opposing forces can be paired to create internal harmony ...
Parenting with Presence: Mindfulness Tools for Sensitive and Intuitive Kids with Lindsay Miller
What if being fully present with your child is more powerful than all the parenting advice in the world? In this deeply insightful conversation, Carrie welcomes Lindsay Miller, mindfulness kids coach and host of the Stress Nanny podcast, who sh...
Kids Guided Meditation: Sea Turtle | Mindfulness, Grounding & Inner Wisdom
Does your child ever feel overwhelmed by big emotions or energy they don’t quite understand? Whether your little one is highly sensitive, anxious, or simply in need of a reset, this peaceful guided meditation was created just for them.In...
Raising Highly Sensitive Kids Without Burnout: Perfectionism, Energy Boundaries, and Emotional Resilience with Lisa Lewis
Ever been told you're "too sensitive" or wondered why parenting feels so overwhelming? You might be among the 20-30% of people born with the highly sensitive person (HSP) trait. In this illuminating conversation with Lisa Lewis, licensed therap...
How to Teach Kids to Feel Energy: Spiritual Parenting Tips for Empaths and Neurodiverse Children
Have you ever noticed your child suddenly reflecting emotions you've been quietly harboring? There's a profound energetic connection between parents and children that goes beyond words—one that can teach us as much as we teach them.In t...
How to Teach Kids About Energy: Simple Tools for Spiritual, Highly Sensitive Families
Have you ever stopped to consider how energy flows through your family? Not just the buzzing activity of daily life, but the actual spiritual energy that connects you, your children, and everything around you?Energy awareness forms the ...
Breaking Generational Cycles with Family Systemic Constellations with Elizabeth Lynn Rohr
Have you ever tried everything to solve a persistent family issue—therapy, specialists, countless books—only to find yourself still struggling? What if the root cause isn't in your parenting approach or your child's behavior, but in patterns in...
Raising the New Earth Kids: Superpowers, Sensitivities, and Soul Lessons with Renee Boos
Are our kids here to heal us? Renee Boos of the Neurodiverse Community Center joins Carrie to share her incredible journey of raising a demand avoidant, highly intuitive son—and how his sensitivities became a gateway to both of their healing.