SUPPORTING SENSITIVE CHILDREN PERSONAL ESSAY words by Katie-Jane Wright and photography by Kate Warren
Child - Mummy I feel everything Mother -what a wonderful super power that is. Lets talk about sensitive children, across all levels, from the empaths, highly sensitives and those who feel and see much more than us grown ups. Being one myself growing up I found it very challenging, I could see and speak to spirits and earth bound souls (ghosts to you and me) since a child. My best friend was a spirit I very ingeniously called Barney, he used to appear in my garden and play with me. For me, going to sleep and seeing an angel kiss me goodnight and shine light on me was normal. My mum would say I was a very deep and introverted child, and I guess I was, I tried to make sense of all I could see and feel knowing it was more than most could understand, accept or even listen too. So I kept it to myself and carried on going to various places and parties seeing spirits walking around as clear as day. When I was 5 my father died and that really strengthened what I could see, feel and hear, although he did not come through to me until I was in my 20s for fear of causing me too much pain. I felt I was very unsupported in this as a child, I only felt safe to open up about what I saw to my grandmother, who had healing hands. She was a true light in my life and so open hearted I am blessed to have known her. It was inevitable that I closed it all down as a teenager, but the years before I had my son I opened up again, I started to see beyond many veils and planes of existence and see energy in the body, crystals and the land. I didn’t deny it anymore and embraced doing energy work and healing. I found myself in my 30’s, that lost girl found her home in her heart, I had shifted so energetically, I was living each day with such intent and from such a heart centered place. I had my son Arlo when I was 29. At this time I was working with crystals, sound, oils and rituals that he was always going to be a part fo that, it was not a choice it was a way of life for us as a family. I believe that our child chooses us before they incarnate, for many reasons to teach us and guide us, to fulfill lessons and karma sometimes. But they choose us because they know that we can facilitate the greatest growth, healing and lessons for them. I felt so grateful for this little soul choosing me and helping with my inner child healing. From an early age I could see he was gifted, he was clairvoyant like me and clairsentient - he deeply ‘feels’ the world and emotions round him. Like a deer in the head lights he found this world harsh, he’s so conscious about the planet and helping animals a true elemental soul. Often I would travel for work and his little spirit would follow me, wanting to be close. In fact at a circle I was holding in London a
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