Ep 15 - Kids & Intuition: How to Hone this Superpower

This week, we’re diving into one of our most requested topics: kids, intuition, and how to nurture this gift without fear or fluff. Gina opens with an energetic forecast about transition, expansion, and community—and why gratitude + certainty are the fastest way to ground when life feels “in-between.” Then Kim shares jaw-dropping stories about Knox and Khloe that will make you rethink what’s possible when it comes to sensitive children.

Whether you’re a parent, auntie/uncle, teacher, or simply someone rebuilding your own intuitive muscle, this episode is a warm, practical guide to raising confident, tuned-in humans—and to re-parenting your own inner compass.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why kids’ intuition is naturally strong (and how culture unintentionally turns the volume down as we age)
• The #1 mistake well-meaning parents make that scrambles a child’s inner guidance—and the exact reframe to fix it on the spot
• How to support a sensitive child who feels others’ emotions or sensations in their body
• A simple script to stay honest with your child (“I don’t feel great right now—and I’m taking care of myself, so I’ll feel better soon.”) that calms their system instead of spiking it
• Telepathy in families: why some kids “just know,” from mind-reading to future predictions.
• How to normalize curious, matter-of-fact conversations about grief and the afterlife so fear doesn’t grow in the shadows

Try-it-today practices (kid-friendly + adult-approved):

• The Emotion Chart → Somatic Check-In: help your child name what they feel, point to where they feel it, then breathe into that spot until it softens
• Magic Mailbox Journal: before bed, your child writes a question; in the morning, they jot the first nudge that arises—no overthinking
• Gut-Check Choices: pause before deciding (“What does your tummy say?”) to train interoception and inner yes/no signals
• Intuitive Walks: let your child choose the next turn, then ask what they sense from trees, wind, birds—builds wonder and attunement
• Lavender Light Ritual (De-Rooting): when leaving a place is hard, imagine pulling up “roots” from the ground and wrapping in a gentle lavender light for the ride home

Book + tool mentions from the show:

• Sensitive (for understanding sensitive kids—and yourself)
• Indigo, Crystal & Rainbow Children by Doreen Virtue (context for intuitive kid archetypes)
• Healing Energy for Kids by Maureen Healy
• Spirit Animal Oracle (Kids Edition) by Colette Baron-Reid (playful, reflective prompts)

Gentle reminder

This episode shares personal experiences and spiritual perspectives for education and inspiration. It’s not medical or psychological advice. If your child is in distress, please consult a qualified professional.

If today’s convo spoke to you—parent or not—share it with a friend, leave a quick review, and tell us your favorite takeaway. We love hearing your stories! 💛

Transcript

Gina 1:38

Hi guys. Gina s Garino, psychic, medium and spiritual life coach. Let's dive in to the energy of the week ahead. Bottom line this week is about transition. Moving out of a mode into something more open, more about community, vision and adventure. But you'll want to stay grounded so you don't get swept away. For you personally, you might notice a pull towards exploring, expanding, changing something in your life, travel, learning, something big, belief shift and community and relationships. The focus shifts towards the collective alliances, friendships, networks, individually. You might ask, who am I in relationship to this group? What role do I play in work? It's gonna be interesting because don't skip over the details even while you're, you are dreaming big. Take an intuitive leap of faith here. For your body and self care because the energies are shifting, your system might feel a little off balance. You might feel restless, you might feel like you're in the in-between. Kim and I just talked about this before we started recording, so it's really funny that it's coming up in the energy read. Of course it is. Grounding practices really help when you're feeling unsure. When you're feeling unsure about things, the most important thing to get back to is gratitude and certainty. And something that I like to do is close my eyes, think about whatever I'm worrying about, and turn my energy into certainty. Like I am certain that this is going to happen in the best way possible for me. And then with your feelings, this is important to be optimistic and expand your awareness. So be aware of overdoing or overpromising. Also, past shadow work might surface up as something for you to step into. So your mantra this week is, expand my vision, but walk my path step by step. There's a lot of energy swirling around this, and this is all about expanding your community. And leaning into your community. This is expansion. So you really wanna focus on expanding your vessel, which is your body, mind, and spirit. Expand your vessel so that it can hold more light. So envision yourself, open up your heart space, envision all the blessings coming in with certainty, and you're gonna make it through this week A okay, but stay on the positive side.

Kim 4:28

Welcome back to the podcast everyone. We've just finished our 12 part series on the 12 Universal Laws, and when we were thinking about where to go next with the podcast, it was kind of a no brainer because Gina and I have actually wanted to talk about this subject for a while now, But for whatever reason, we've gotten sidetracked every time and of course, I truly believe everything happens for a reason. So maybe we're just meant to talk about this one on the podcast for all of you to hear, both of my kids are extremely intuitive, and I'm gonna tell you some stories here in a little bit that will blow your mind. But the question I've always wanted to ask Gina is how can I help them strengthen their intuitive gifts? I know that these are gifts. If they learn to follow and honor their intuitive nudges rather than pushing them down or ignoring them, I know that it will serve them greatly in life. In my eyes, it is like a superpower. So why would I not wanna do everything I can to help them hone this superpower? And of course, everyone has an intuition and has access to information that is not readily known. We know this is scientifically true because they've done experiments on intuition, and it's proven that yes, intuition is real. Yes, it's accurate, far more accurate than our rational or analytical minds. Our intuition picks up on things and knows things before our thinking mind does. And in kids it's very strong as we grow up and there's so much more pressure from everyone else and how we spend our time, what we're supposed to be doing, we have, all these other voices that come into play and we get into the habit of pushing our intuition to the back burner, pushing it down, or ignoring it. And so once we get to adulthood, that connection is really not as strong anymore, to the point where. Even when we do get an intuitive hit, we don't even really trust it, and I don't wanna see that happen to my kids. I wanna support them in every way I can so that they grow up understanding what intuition is and knowing that their intuition is their superpower because that is the truth. It can save your life. It can tell you when things seem off, when something or someone is dangerous, it can guide you to see something that you otherwise wouldn't have seen or guide you to be in the right place at just the right time. It can help you make decisions that maybe don't make sense logically, but that end up being the best choices you've ever made based on where you end. Following your gut instead of your head often works out to your benefit. So Gina and I are finally going to have this long awaited conversation, and I'm so excited to share it with you all. And if you don't have kids, this episode is still worth listening to because. Everything we're going to talk about today can be used on yourself as well. If you feel like you've lost touch with your intuition, or if you have a strong intuition that guides you either way, implementing practices that can help strengthen that connection even more is possibly one of the greatest gifts that you can give yourself. Once you learn how to reconnect with your intuition and start following the guidance you receive, it will really change your life for the better in so many ways. So I'm gonna share some of my stories in a little bit, talk about some of the things that I do, with my kids. But first, Gina is our teacher this week. She's been working with kids and parents for many years, helping to develop children's intuitive gifts. So I'm going to have her share some of her tips and tricks and then we will talk real world examples, and get her take on those as well.

Gina 7:59

I'm just so pumped to talk about this because this is something that I'm super, super passionate about. First off, this is something that I always say. It takes one to birth. One meaning if you have intuitive kids, guess what? I, you or your partner are super intuitive and it has gone through your bloodline to your children, and more than likely. Both partners are intuitive to some degree. There's always a more, intuitive one in a relationship, and there's always one that's more healing. Okay? One is more passive intuition, one is more in your face intuition. So it takes one to birth one, you know? And so I know Kim is highly intuitive. A hundred percent. And I also know Kyle as as well, so they have magical little babies. I've seen them, I've met them. I love them. They're magic. But something that comes to mind as one of my first memories of an intuitive child. My baby cousin, she was at a playground and someone fell and got hurt. She immediately went over, and I'm talking like, I think she's three years old A baby. Okay. She runs over to the other little kid and does a laying on of hands healing. To this child. This baby does this to this other baby and my aunt is relaying this story to me and I'm like, holy cow. So that was my very first kind of experience. Knowing that kids can be intuitive, even though I was one myself. Mm-hmm. Now, on the flip side, another person in my family. He was also intuitive and when he was a little kid, I, his mom reached out to me and asked me if I would talk to him because he was seeing shadow people. Now let me also say this. I have this gift, this ability on both sides of my family. I was doomed from the get go like I had no idea that this was my path, but like obviously it is. So everybody in my family is intuitive in some way, shape, shape or form. Many do it professionally, or I should say a few do it professionally and majority just use it in their everyday life. So back to my other cousin. So my other baby cousin, I believe he was maybe I wanna say like seven, eight years old at this time. And he was seeing shadow people and he was seeing Native American Indians in his bedroom and in the bathroom. And he was super scared that he was seeing these things. And majority of the time when parents reach out to me, it's because something has scared their child. But he started seeing these shadow people and what happened with it is that one of his parents wanted him to understand where this was coming from and another parent wanted nothing to do with it. So that intuition completely shut down. Now, my other cousin, the laying on the hands one. She has totally dove into her spirituality and God and prayer, and is still intuitive to this day. So what parents do and teach and believe really matters with their kids. And if you were to shut down that natural ability in them, they'll be lacking a piece of themselves their whole lives.

Kim 11:53

Wow. That's good to know. Yeah, because I know with, I mean, Knox will tell you I have a strong intuition.

Gina 12:02

No, I love him so much. He's so damn cute.

Kim 12:04

I know. And it's because we've said that to him so many times. Um, but yeah, so I wanted, can I go ahead and tell you a few stories about the kids? Please?

Gina 12:13

Let's dive in.

Speaker 2 12:14

So, um, yeah, Knox is very intuitive. We've known that for a very long time. He just knows things and he feels things and Chloe's the same way. I think Chloe is, I, she's gonna be something else, but let's talk about Knox first. So he does things like, he can almost like read minds, um, and he knows like when things are going to happen. Sometimes, like for example, he does jiujitsu and mm-hmm. The first time that he striped at Jiujitsu walking into the building, he said, I think I'm gonna stripe today. And he had never said that before. And you know, I don't know how many classes in it was. Mm-hmm. Um, so he called it ahead of time and he did it the second time too. And so that just completely, blew our minds that he was able to do that. Yeah, he's done things like, I remember I actually have on video this one, but we were going to go fishing and Yeah, Knox is in the backseat and we're driving and all of a sudden he goes, wait a minute, where's my fishing rail? And sure enough. Kyle had put a bunch of stuff in the trunk, but he hadn't put the fishing reel in there. And, he's also done things where he'll tell me, so his favorite pizza is Amy's spinach pizza, but he doesn't like spinach. On pizza from restaurants. He just wants plain old cheese pizza. But I've never put it on there, ordering from a restaurant before. And so one day I was really considering it. I was like, I'm gonna get spinach on there. And I was going back and forth in my mind, going back and forth in my mind. And he looks at me and he goes, mom, don't put spinach on my pizza. And I'm just like, are you reading my mind right now? Like, what is it? Yes, he's telepathic. Yes, very much so. And then he'll do things like. He'll tell us we're going the wrong way, you know? Mm-hmm. When we're going somewhere and we really are going the wrong way. And there would be no way for him to know that. Um, and then because he's a

Gina 14:06

child,

Speaker 2 14:06

yeah. He has no idea. But he also like fills the weight of the world a lot as well. When there are crazy events going on in the world. Yeah. You can see him get emotional and start to like shut down. And a lot of times he'll even get sick, which is pretty wild. Yeah. Now Chloe, so of course, gearing up for this she just did it. Three days ago, I think it was. So it was the anniversary of my sister's death. So we were getting text messages and things from family and friends and me and my mom were texting back and forth, and it's just me and Chloe in the bathroom. And I'm texting my mom about it, and Chloe looks at me, she's got her baby in her hand, her little doll, and she says, mommy. I'm bringing my baby home because my baby's dead. And I said, Chloe, no she's not. Don't say that. You know, she's never said anything like that before. Yeah. It like kind of jarred me. And I swear to you she looked me dead in the eye and she said, yes she is. It's okay, mommy. I'm bringing her home. And then she left the room. Left the baby. My,

Gina 15:18

my mouth is wide open right now. Yes.

Speaker 2 15:21

Puts the baby down and comes back into the room. And so this is crazy because obviously we're talking about my sister and her death, and then she tells me, about bringing the baby home and Yes, but it's okay. But what's really crazy about it is. This whole next room idea has been something that's been ongoing where, first of all, at my sister's funeral I had, my cousin read a poem that's called Death is Nothing at All. And one of the lines is that, I'm just in the next room. We've also had dreams. And other signs where the message is always, it's like I'm just in the next room. And so here was Chloe reiterating that back to us again, which Yeah. Oh my

Gina 16:05

gosh. Have all over body chills right now.

Speaker 2 16:09

Yes. She's done things like. One time I was watching a show about England, about the King of England, and it was about his brother, who of course was the spare to the throne. Mm-hmm. And so they called him Sparrow, that was his nickname. And Chloe was sleeping upstairs. She's never seen the show. It's not one that I would ever watch in front of her. And uh, I went up to go get her up from her nap, and she says, I was just sitting here talking to my friend, Sparrow. And I said, what? And then she says, what did

Gina 16:45

you say?

Kim 16:46

Yeah. Then she goes, yeah, he's from another country now. My daughter doesn't know what a country is. She's three. Like she's never I. After this, I did ask her, I said, well, what country? And she said like, Kentucky or something. Yeah. But, right. I mean, that just was like, what in the world? I was literally just watching this on television. And then she says that to me five minutes later. Absolutely. Mind blowing. Yes. Um, she's done things like, We were in Massachusetts, which is where Kyle grew up. And we were with, his mom on vacation. We were walking along the beach and nobody was talking about it, nothing at all. But Kyle's dad had passed, a little over a year ago, and she said, where's Poppy? And it just, again, she's not really asked that she was too young when he passed. She was a baby. Yeah. And we do talk about him, but for her to ask that on this trip, you know, where he would've been with us and we're with Kyle's mom, and, it just, it felt, I don't know, it felt very intuitive for her to ask that question at that point.

Speaker 3 17:57

Mm-hmm. And then

Speaker 2 17:57

she also feels things, so she. I can't tell you how many times, like my eye is burning and Chloe will go, ow, my eye hurts. And I'm like, what? Yes. Belly hurting. You know, if somebody is in pain, like she is feeling it. Mm-hmm. And then there was this one time, which this is gonna be TMI, so I'm gonna try not to make it TMI, but this one is just so crazy that I have to talk about it, but I was going through an experience where I was having really bad PMS. Mm-hmm. I had never experienced like this bad before where, I mean, the pain was just debilitating and it was taking me out for an entire day, but also like my emotional state was really like insane and like I was having mm-hmm. Terrible anxiety with it and all these things. Um, which. Side note, I feel like I have to say this. If you're going through something like that, ask your doctor about the supplement flow. They have gummies. The supplement's called flow. It cured me. I do not have any kind of pain at all anymore. It's really helped all my symptoms. I was, I had actually been going to the doctor to talk about a hysterectomy and she said, well, I've had a lot of people have really great, Results with this. So try this out. And of course, it's not every day that like a, doctor recommends a supplement, right? So when they do, yeah, you should take notice. And so I did and it completely changed my life. So I feel like I had say that I just

Gina 19:25

wrote it down because I'm like, holy cow. As I age, the older I get, your cycle and how you feel drastically changes.

Speaker 2 19:34

Yeah, it gets worse. It's crazy

Gina 19:36

Every year. It gets worse and worse. And I'm like, what the hell is this? Am I a teenager again? Yeah. Like, what's going on? Yeah. But yeah, I wrote that down. I'll be, I'll be putting that in my Amazon cart asap.

Speaker 2 19:48

Yeah, you won't be. Sorry. So, I should get a, uh. And they should be sponsoring this. But anyway.

Gina 19:54

Absolutely.

Speaker 2 19:56

And

Gina 19:56

from words from our sponsors,

Speaker 2 19:58

right? So, anyway, so again, overbearing pain, super high anxiety. I was feeling just terrible and we had this party coming up the next. Day and so we had to get the house ready for it, and the house was a wreck. And so I had basically like an emotional breakdown. I can't do anything and there's all these things that I need to do. And so I'm not doing this in front of the kids, but I'm telling Kyle and I'm actually like, brought to tears. I'm crying because I'm so emotional. Mm-hmm. And he's just like, what is going on here? You know, I don't know what to do. Like you're being crazy right now. Yeah. So he is like, just go lay down in the bedroom. I'll take care of the kids. I'll get everything cleaned up. It'll be fine. So I go lay down and this little girl starts bawling out of nowhere like. Crying more than we've ever seen her cry for no reason at all, just starts breaking down, having her own little emotional breakdown. And Kyle was like, you've gotta come see this. Like she is literally you right now. She's feeling everything that you're feeling, which of course made me feel terrible. We always have to like be really careful now because Yeah. If you are feeling something, odds are she's gonna feel it. And it is just like, I have to be really careful with my words. Don't say anything hurts, you know, but also keep my distance because I don't want her to, to feel all of that. So especially with her, what do I do? I want her to feel things, but also I need her to be able to protect herself. Um, she's carrying around all of those energies. Yeah, it's going to drastically affect her life. Mm-hmm. So yeah, I'm here for all the tips and tricks about how to help them thrive.

Gina 21:42

Oh my gosh. Your babies are so telepathic, and this is something that's in my family also. Between my mom, one of my sisters, and my brother and myself, we're all very telepathic, but in different ways. My brother is telepathic with me if I'm feeling upset or sad. He's always gonna be the one that reaches out and texts me. Okay? Mm-hmm. With my sister. My sister and I have this really weird telepathic connection with cooking. It's flipping nuts. We did this thing where like, for a significant amount of time, I'd be like. Baking something so specific and random, like a lemon cheesecake with blueberry, raspberry, lemon compote something like that. And then I call her, or she'd text me a picture of her already made lemon cheesecake. It's nuts like that. But with my mom. My mom and I have that physical telepathic connection like you and Chloe do.

Speaker 3 22:49

Mm-hmm.

Gina 22:49

And so whenever my mom, and it's me towards my mom, so whenever my mom is sick or not feeling well, I feel it in my body. And so my mom had a stroke in 2020, so this is actually helpful for me during this time of any time she's not feeling well. It's usually at night I'll get a feeling, I'll feel sick or upset or nauseous or dizzy or something, and it will, it'll hit me and I'll get a rush of it. And I know to call her automatically and be like, Hey ma, you okay?

Speaker 2 23:22

Oh my

Gina 23:22

goodness. So here's some tips with this. Okay, so. First thing. First things first. If Chloe were to come up to you, and this goes for all kids, this is the number one intuitive thing not to do and to do. When your child comes up to you and says, mommy, are you okay, daddy? Are you okay? And you say, yes, I'm fine. When you're not, you are throwing off their internal guidance system. So instead, when they come up and say, if Chloe comes up to you and says, mommy, are you okay? Say, no, I'm not okay. I feel really yucky, but don't worry, I'm gonna feel better soon.

Speaker 3 24:05

Mm.

Gina 24:06

And you handle it like that. So she knows that she doesn't have to work with your energy because Chloe's a healer. Mm-hmm. Okay. So Chloe is a healer, and what do healers do? They connect to your energy, transmute your energy, and help you heal. So that's why she's tuning into you. So next time you don't feel good. At the first signs of not feeling good, this is what you're gonna do. You're gonna go to your three-year-old Chloe and say, Hey, mommy's feeling a little stuffy nose today. I'm not feeling so hot, but I wanted you to know upfront, and I want you to also know that I'm gonna take care of myself and I'm gonna feel better. Okay. And then even go one step further and say, do you think the, can you come up with anything that'll help mommy feel better? And she might come up with something super strange that you're like, all right, I'll try it. You know? But that is super, super helpful. So when you have an intuitive child that is a, I'll lack for better words, I'll call them a physical medium. Because they're feeling everything physically. If you identify the issue right at the forefront, she's going to feel less.

Speaker 2 25:24

Okay. That's great to know because I was doing the opposite. I was trying to hide it because I didn't wanna give her any more reason almost to like tune in and feel Yeah. How I'm feeling.

Gina 25:34

Right? Because that's what a lot of parents think. I'm gonna hide my emotions, I'm gonna hide my feelings. I'm gonna protect my kids. Guess what? They still feel it all. Yeah. They just don't know where it's coming from, which rattles them even more. Mm. Right. Mm-hmm. And it's like anytime I get an intuitive hit, I will send out a text message to say, my mom, my brother, Nicholas, and be like, Hey, I'm having this feeling, everything okay.'cause I'm trying to identify where it's coming from. Mm-hmm. I don't always know where it's coming from. Even as a seasoned professional media, you know, so that is, that's the biggest thing, is to be open and honest, but also tell them that you're gonna be okay. So it takes away their need, their authentic, natural way of healing. You

Speaker 2 26:31

can I, so they

Gina 26:31

know that they don't have to do it.

Speaker 2 26:33

Can I, um, go totally off subject for just a second here because it just mind hell Yeah. Let's do it. Mind. During my reading with you, the first one I ever had, Before Chloe was born you told me.'cause of course you told me I was gonna have a little girl. I wasn't pregnant yet. But I asked you about her'cause you told me some things about how Knox would be. And you said that she was going to be highly intuitive. And that she was going to have some kind of career that like some kind of energetic career. Because I did. Yeah. I'm gonna have to go back. And the only reason I remember that is'cause I had listened to that reading just recently, when we were preparing for one of our podcasts. But yeah, you actually called that. I'm gonna go back and look at the, actual wording that you said, but it was something about her being highly intuitive and that she would feel energies and she would have some kind of energetic career. I don't know what that would be.

Gina 27:32

Oh God. I'm like, we have a few years to wait on that. Yeah. But I could not wait to see what she does. Mm-hmm. And you know, you and I haven't talked about Chloe a ton. I had absolutely no idea that she was a physical medium.

Speaker 2 27:47

Yeah, well this is all pretty recent. I mean, you know, she's just started talking not that long ago. So Yeah, this is all, yeah, fairly recent, that we've started picking up on it. And I mean, even Kyle's mom is also very, very intuitive. Mm-hmm. She's called, some things she sees. Things like she might see a certain color or a flashing light or something like that, and then something will end up happening. And so she's al always been very intuitive and has always honored that because through the years she's seen the proof of it. Yeah. But so she's picked up on Chloe's intuitiveness as well, and she tells me like she comes over every Friday to watch the kids. And she told me this. Just this last Friday, she said, there were three times I was feeling something and Chloe spoke it and I was like, oh my gosh. So yeah, it's just, it's, oh my gosh. All of a sudden like just happening, you know? Where we're like, oh, okay. Yeah.

Gina 28:41

And that is around the time that you will start noticing around that two to three year mark. Obviously before then they're itty bitty. Mm-hmm. You know what I mean? And so around that two or three year mark, you'll really start to see it. So some other things that you can do when you're helping your littles. And this goes for any age, okay. Of child or adult. But especially if you start them at three years old, like, oh my God. She's gonna be freaking a rockstar. Mm-hmm. And when I say a rockstar, I don't mean a rockstar medium, but I mean like a rockstar, well-balanced human being.

Speaker 3 29:20

Mm-hmm.

Gina 29:20

Because starting at that young age of really cultivating and nurturing who she is. Which allows her to be who she's meant to be is gonna be such a beautiful thing.

Speaker 3 29:32

Mm-hmm. But the

Gina 29:32

other thing I was gonna suggest for you to do, Kim, are two more things. So one thing is teaching her her own personal barometer system, even as a three-year-old. And teaching her, is this my energy or is this someone else's energy? And this is how you do that. You know, the old school, papers that therapists will send out with like the smiley faces with the emotions

Speaker 3 30:00

mm-hmm.

Gina 30:01

Is get one of those charts, they make'em for kids and teach your kiddos how to identify what they're feeling when they're feeling it. Okay. This is gonna be huge. This is the number one thing. And I will tell you, I know so many adults, I know I was gonna say especially men, but I know so many adults that need to do this tactic also. Mm-hmm. Of learning how to identify what they're feeling when they're feeling it. And diving into that, and by starting the kiddos on that chart, and you know, obviously when they're full blown emotional, it takes a moment to get'em there. But after enough practice, they'll get to a point, even when they're at the height of their emotional state, they'll be able to point to their emotions. And then this goes into somatic healing. They can point to their emotions on the chart, and then you can say, where do you feel that emotion in your body? And then they'll point to their belly, point, to their chest, point to their head, you know, whatever. And then the parent, or you can say, okay, take deep breaths into that area. Alright. Does it feel lighter? Does it feel less heavy? And you just have them breathe into that area of their body until they feel lighter. And then that goes into the personal barometer of, did you feel that emotion because something that was happening to you, or did you feel it coming at you from someplace else? They will miraculously get this concept. Okay. Mm-hmm. Like they will. I've never seen a child under the age of five not be able to identify where it's coming from. Now when you get to age seven through 10, they might have trouble identifying where the energy is coming from, if it's something that was done to them, or if they're feeling something coming in because of their hormones are starting to change during that time. So starting with the chart that leads them into somatic healing, which takes them out of the emotion, looking at the chart and then bringing the healing with the breath to whatever area of the body where they're feeling it is gonna help them tenfold. The other thing is that kids around that age, just like Chloe, they're gonna talk about death. They're gonna talk about it in a matter of fact way.

Speaker 2 32:35

Yes. And Knox does that

Gina 32:37

yeah. And allow it to be a normal part of conversation. Even if they say something that's a little twerking, just be like, why? Why do you say that? Be more inquisitive to why they are saying something as matter of fact about death or grief. Be curious versus like, oh, don't talk about that. And that's something that my family weirdly has always done. I know. Um, not everybody in my family loves this. By the way. Some of my family members really hate the death talk. Mm-hmm. But majority of my family, and when I say majority, all of them except maybe a few, we're all insanely comfortable talking about death and only talking about death. And I always thought that it was maybe because that's what I do for a living. Like I talk about death all day, every day. I'm very comfortable with the uncomfortable in the afterlife, but on my dad's side of the family, they're constantly talking about who died. What did they do? Bringing memories, that ancestral energy to it all. And so in talking about death, it makes us intuitives feel very comfortable because we're sensing life and we're sensing life afterlife.

Speaker 3 34:00

Mm-hmm. It's,

Gina 34:01

it's that double-edged sword that comes in, which also brings me to. Attention and your child. Have you ever had any trouble with your kids paying attention in school or, um, like this is a kicker, like, um, like having to prep them to leave places, um, things of that nature. Have you experienced any of that?

Speaker 2 34:28

Where, what, where they break down? Like they don't want to leave if you don't give them notice or what do you mean? Yeah, like

Gina 34:34

if they break down and, if you don't give them notice before leaving, or in school they might talk too much or they might not be focusing on their schoolwork or anything like that.

Speaker 2 34:47

No. So we've not experienced that. Knox is like a model student. He is like, yeah, I don't know how we got so lucky with him. Chloe's gonna be a whole different story. But, um, we, we've not gotten any bad reports like that with Knox. He's normally the one that's very attentive and listening. I do find, I don't know if this kind of qualifies, but I do find that setting a timer with my kids really works really well because they do, like, if I all of a sudden go, it's time for bed, or We need to leave now, or whatever, like they want, they, even if it's like two minutes, like I can literally say, we've got two minutes until we have to leave, and they'll both be like, okay. You know, so excited. But if I set a timer as well, when that timer goes off, they're just like, okay, it's time to go. You know, or it's time to go do this. And that seems to help because if I just say two minutes, they don't have any concept of that. And then if I come back and say it's been two minutes now, a lot of times they'll come, you know, have Yeah, a breakdown. Chloe never wants to leave anywhere. She breaks down every time we leave anywhere, honestly. Yeah. Like she's the life of the party. She wants to be there. She does not want to go. Home, ever.

Gina 35:55

Little social animal. Yeah. So to give our listeners a little backstory on why kids don't wanna leave, sometimes it is because of their energy. It's rooted where they are. Hmm. So something that can help with that is a ritual or a practice of teaching your little one, a disconnecting or a deep rooting practice. And what that can look like is, you know, sometimes moms have a really hard time dropping their kids off at daycare, like this is a common thing. Or trying to get their kid to leave anywhere. That's fun. You can teach'em this de rooting technique where you're like, okay, we're gonna learn the the lavender light ritual, and they're gonna be like, oh my god, what's the lavender light ritual? And it is where you put a lavender light around them. And it pulls their roots up. You have them visualize that they have roots coming out of their feet that's plugging them into the ground, and you have them visualize letting go of the roots, and then the light purple light is keeping them safe for their journey. It redirects their attention away from what they're doing. So it helps them unlock from the energy because kids lock into the energy. So much quicker, easier, faster and harder than adults do. We're, I mean, we can like switch zones quick, right? Mm-hmm. Because we have that brain power, they don't have that yet. So when they're in it, they're fully present. And when you're fully present, it is hard to get away. Yeah. And in thinking about that, think about how often it's hard for you to pull away.

Speaker 3 37:43

Mm-hmm. When

Gina 37:44

I reflect on me, it's like never. Which means I need to work on my presence and being deeply rooted, right? Mm-hmm. I also have a little bit of social anxiety, so I have timers on my phone, always ready to leave when I can leave. Always ready to leave. I hear you

Speaker 2 38:02

right. Yeah. Well, I think that's so, um, Knox, I totally could do that with, he's, he's my little sensitive, quiet child. I mean, he, I will, he will meditate on his own. Okay. He's like one of those, and so I would have no problem doing that with him. Chloe, on the other hand. She has a really hard time calming down. Like I've tried to do the, like deep breath in, you know, let it out. Mm-hmm. You know, like I've tried all of these different things with her to try to help her regulate her emotions. Mm-hmm. And it feels futile. Like I just, it's very difficult, like when she's upset about something, it's full on. Mm-hmm. She's upset and she's screaming and, you know, um, yeah. So I don't know. That would be interesting to try. Yeah, if she listened to me at all.

Gina 38:52

Yeah, try with the chart first.

Speaker 2 38:55

Mm-hmm. And

Gina 38:55

give yourself a solid 90 days with the chart. Okay. So this is not like a quick fix.

Speaker 3 39:01

Mm-hmm. This

Gina 39:02

is like a 90 day challenge of I'm gonna start teaching her how to identify her emotions.

Speaker 3 39:08

Mm-hmm.

Gina 39:09

Also, as a three-year-old, it is hard to regulate emotions and at that point you also have to take this into mind of you can't stifle the emotions. Right? Mm-hmm. You have to let them get it out and express. So at that point with Chloe, when she's inconsolable, I would say just sit there and hold space with her and just instead of trying to calm her, you be the calm force. Mm-hmm.

Speaker 3 39:39

And

Gina 39:40

say, I know you're hurting. I love you and this feeling is gonna pass and just really hold space for her while she's being emotional versus trying to calm the energy. By having her do something, she won't be able to do it. Mm-hmm. But if you're the calm force and you sit there and you focus on your breath and you focus on, it's okay. I trust you. I love you. This feeling's gonna pass. Just watch me in my breathing and watch how I calm myself. And eventually over the 90 days of you focusing on you being calm in those situations, because let's get it right. Let. When our babies go batshit crazy, like, we're like, ah, stop. Especially when it's in public, it's like, no, no, tough. So if we work on our calmness, it can help translate, but work on it for 90 days and see what shifts happen with her. And I'm almost like, let's do this as an experiment. Mm-hmm. I love Menting. Um, but, but yeah, I think that really focusing, focusing on that and also knowing that when she's in that state of mind, it's like, okay, I gotta focus on my state of mind because she's telepathic. Alright. And because she's physically telepathic with you when your internal dialogue is, oh, I'm super anxious. I gotta calm my child down, all of that. She's feeling her emotions. Mm-hmm. And your emotions all at the same time. That's why it's so big,

Speaker 2 41:24

it gets heightened. We've noticed that with Chloe, unless you fully. Calm down. If she triggers you, she feels that even if you don't say anything and then she heightens, it just gets height, you know, just bigger and bigger emotions. Yes, we definitely felt that with her. And then what you said about like talking about death, that's really interesting too. I'm realizing I'm doing this all wrong, so,

Gina 41:50

but like, no, you're doing it perfectly. You're the perfect mom for that.

Speaker 2 41:53

So Knox has always talked about death and mm-hmm. Obviously like I lost my sister, Kyle lost his brother, and then his poppy passed recently. But I've always been really hesitant when talking about my sister and about Kyle's brother, because I think. There's this part of me that is afraid that they're then going to get worried that something could happen to them. You know, when you talk about like younger people passing or that something could happen to me or Kyle. And I actually, I think recently I've just realized, no, they're not connecting the dots, that just doesn't seem to happen. Like they're just not saying, oh, because this happened, it could happen to me. Mm-hmm. Or to one of my parents. And so I have kind of changed my thinking on that and we talk about it a lot more now. But that's really, I mean, Knox has for so long, he's always talked about it and yes, he's talked about it matter of factly and. Just the other day he said to me, he goes, mom, you know what I think heaven's like, I think it's like changing a television station and they can tune in and change the television station to see anything going on here that they want. And I thought, how, you know, I've never thought about it like that. And it just thought, yeah, you're probably right kid. You know? Absolutely. But he's always coming out with these things, like he's really deeply thinking about death. And I think that's concerned me for the most part because, even, I remember a couple years back, he was very young and he said to me, Chloe's gonna die one day, isn't she? And I thought. Don't, no, don't speak that. You know? Yeah. Like, it just really made me uncomfortable. Yeah. But he's just trying to figure out how it all works, you know? And, um, yeah. He's

Gina 43:43

just trying to understand it all.

Speaker 2 43:44

Yes. Yeah. And he, he is, he's thinking about it a lot, and again, that's uncomfortable for me, but that's, mm-hmm. Maybe that's just the way it's supposed to be,

Gina 43:53

absolutely. And I think talking about death for majority of people, I mean, that is one of the top fears in the world when you Google search. It is death.

Speaker 3 44:04

Mm-hmm.

Gina 44:04

And it's very uncomfortable for a lot of people to talk about. So you're not abnormal in that respect at all whatsoever. I'm extremely abnormal because of my work and what I do, so what if we could reframe it into, okay, I'm gonna be okay talking about death with my children, for the simple fact of whatever we talk about is not in the shadows. It's not something to fear. Mm-hmm. It's not something to be scared of. Death is not a punishment. Mm-hmm. Death is a release. And if we can instill those thoughts and those values, into the little ones, then they're not gonna grow up with the fear of death. That everybody else has and it makes me think of the analogy of the girls in high school that were so completely sheltered that didn't get to do anything, and then they go to college and it's like balls with the walls. Crazy. Because there, there's absolutely, no experience in it, right? Mm-hmm. The same thing kind of goes for this situation. The more leeway and the more talking about it and the more flow that's within will help it all flow and be balanced later on What we resist persists.

Speaker 3 45:25

Mm-hmm.

Gina 45:26

And especially with your little ones, you're gonna be talking even more about death. Like just buckle up butter. Oh my God. Because it's gonna keep on keeping on.

Speaker 2 45:37

Yeah, I just have to get used to it. I guess it's wild to talk to a 7-year-old about death. Let me tell you. Even more wild to talk to a 5-year-old and so forth that he's been doing it for a while now. Um, yeah. Well, you know, when I was researching this, I found a few examples of things you can do and I thought I'd mentioned'em.'cause I thought, oh, that's a great idea and I actually think I might. Start doing them as well. Okay. Um, there was one that was called the Magic mailbox, which is like journaling for kids. But you get a notebook, you call it the magic mailbox, and then you write questions each night, like whatever's on their mind, what should I do about blank? And they leave it overnight. So they do this right before bed, leave it overnight. Mm-hmm. And then the next morning you encourage them to get that journal and write the first thought or feeling that comes to mind to answer it. And I think that's such a great practice for not only kids, but for adults as well. Yeah. Like ask yes, ask for, the answer to something in your sleep. And sometimes you'll have a dream. A lot of times you'll wake up with clarity. I just think that would be such a great idea. Knox is starting to write and I know that he could benefit from that. And then, Another one was gut check choices. So when your child has small choices, when they ask like. For a snack and you say, which snack do you want? Or what game do you wanna play? Asking them to pause and see what their tummy says before answering. So giving them a chance, like actually giving the verbiage of I would love that. Let's go within and, find that answer. Mm-hmm. And I think that's really good to teach them to start listening to their inner voice. And then I think encouraging imagination and creative play is obviously very important too. The drawing, the storytelling, the pretending, you know, it all opens up their intuitive channels. And I think asking open-ended questions instead of like avoiding. Or correcting or overanalyzing seems to be a theme as well. Making sure that they know that they're never wrong, but rather when you know that they're wrong, instead just asking a clarifying question so they can get there on their own. I thought that was great advice as well.

Gina 47:55

Yeah, that's a good one too. I really like, intuitive days. I do this as an adult, but it's wonderful to do with kids also. So an intuitive day is taking the whole day or taking a few hours a day and saying, okay, angels, where should I go first? Mm-hmm. And they might be like, go on a walk or go to Starbucks, get a coffee and a cake pop. Or like, they'll tell you where to go and then you go and do that. And then when you're finished doing that, you say, okay, where to next?

Speaker 3 48:28

And

Gina 48:28

so a simple way to do this with kids is taking them on walks because kids go on walks all the time, take the kids on a walk in the neighborhood and ask them what they feel from the trees. Ask them what they feel from the animals they see, or from the wind. This builds up their connection. Mm-hmm. And it's really cool to ask them what they're feeling from the outside energies as a daily practice. Because what they come up with is it'll blow your mind. It'll absolutely blow your mind. One of my favorite books that I definitely wanna recommend is sensitive. It has a really pretty color. It has like a bright orange and yellow starburst on the front, but it's called Sensitive, and it is one of my favorite books for adults to read to understand sensitive child. But it is more so to understand themselves because mm-hmm. Takes one to birth one. So this book will help you understand you yourself better and your child. But through this learning, you're gonna be like, oh wow, I never looked at myself this way. This is super interesting. Mm. And another one of my favorite books is by Doreen Virtue. It's Older. I love Doreen Virtue. She doesn't do this work anymore, but when she did, she was like the bee's knees, and it's called Indigo Crystal and Rainbow Children. And it is awesome. It is so very, very cool For my parents out there that have not dove into these concepts, you can look up indigo children, crystalline children, rainbow children, and what you will find out is absolutely wild. Another one that's really good is Healing Energy for Kids by Maureen Healy. And this is also a cool Oracle deck that you can get the Spirit animal Oracle deck for kids by Collette Baron Reed. And so getting kids used to playing with those cards, you, they're not gonna know what they're doing, but giving'em little. Tips and tricks and things to play for. So the ultimate goal is to not create a psychic kid and like bring them up to be a psychic medium. The goal here is to help them be authentic in who they are and incorporating every aspect of who they are and really this, this. Concept or these theories builds up a child's confidence when the whole person is nurtured, especially that sensitive part.'cause the sensitive part is the part that needs the most nourishment. All right, guys. I hope you've enjoyed today's episode on Intuitive Kids. If you have any questions about this, please reach out to Kim or I via Instagram or email. We're here for you. We love you. And we will see you next time. Have a magical day.