StRest with Kerstin Lindquist

Turn Down the Noise: Sarah Boyd on Resilience, Rest, and Raising Emotionally Healthy Kids


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This is StRest! Meet Sarah Boyd—educational psychologist, founder of Resilient Little Hearts, and global voice on emotional health and resilience. In this episode, host Kerstin Lindquist welcomes Sarah for a future-facing conversation (literally—from Australia!) about overstimulation, chronic stress, and the underestimated power of recovery. Together, they unpack why true resilience isn’t about grit alone—it’s about rest, rhythm, and release. From parenting during puberty to the neuroscience of burnout, Sarah brings practical tools and deeply grounded wisdom to help you turn down the noise and reset your soul. If you’re running on fumes, feeling like the world might fall apart if you pause, or wondering how to raise emotionally healthy kids while holding it together yourself—this one’s for you.


Major Themes & Concepts

✅ Resilience ≠ stoicism—it’s the dance between stress and recovery

✅ The neuroscience of overstimulation: why your brain needs breaks

✅ Loving detachment: trusting God with what’s not yours to carry

✅ Rest as resistance: Sabbath, slowing, and deprogramming productivity

✅ Parenting: you’re their prefrontal cortex until theirs develops

✅ Interrupting emotional buildup: how to stop the 10/10 blowup

✅ Creativity, joy, and play as pillars of adult recovery

✅ Tech boundaries & environmental overstimulation: the invisible epidemic

✅ Relationships as longevity medicine: lessons from the Harvard Study


Chapters

00:00 | Introduction: misplaced responsibility & surrendering control

06:49 | What resilience really means—and how it’s misunderstood

09:21 | Why we need stress—and why recovery is missing

12:03 | Overstimulation: the epidemic we’re not talking about

14:37 | Real rest vs. fake rest: why scrolling won’t reset your brain

17:27 | Joy, creativity & the myth of wasted time

19:59 | Parenting insights: emotional regulation & brain development

22:42 | Redefining self-worth outside of productivity

27:44 | The sensory iceberg: what’s underneath overstimulation

29:57 | Extending ourselves the same compassion we give toddlers

31:59 | Interrupting emotional buildup: practical regulation tools

34:54 | Take the break before you explode—how to know when

37:00 | Boundaries in a boundaryless culture: pre-tech vs. now

40:22 | Rest, relationships, and HRV: building resilient bodies

42:09 | The overstimulation iceberg: sensory vs. chronic load

44:35 | Sarah’s non-negotiables: movement, prayer, and expression


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