Turn Down the Noise: A Practical Guide to Building an Emotionally Healthy Family in a Chronically Overstimulated World

by Sarah Boyd

Publisher:

Tyndale Refresh

, 2025

Overview

Overstimulation is an invisible epidemic in our world—and it is impacting you and your child more than you realize.

If you’ve felt overwhelmed and burnt out by the exhaustion of daily life, flattened by the sheer amount of noise and distraction in your home, your schedule, your brain you aren’t alone.

What’s more, overstimulation is a key driver of our children’s behaviors, contributing to increased symptoms in anxiety, depression, and attentional diagnoses. In the fast-paced culture of our world, is it possible to set our children up to thrive in emotional health?

Sarah Boyd (M.Ed Psych), child and adolescent development expert and founder of the educational company Resilient Little Hearts, believes it is possible to turn down the noise of overstimulation and chronic stress for you and your family. In her new book, she gives you the psychological frameworks and simple practical tools to turn down the noise of overstimulation and stress, so that you can cultivate emotional health for your child and family.

Turn Down the Noise provides the strategies and tools to simplify your family life, including:

• The neuroscience of children’s emotions, and why your brain leads you to often over-react in the hard parenting moments (& what to do instead)
• How to identify and navigate the trait of high sensitivity in yourself or your child
• A new way of approaching our growth as parents towards emotional maturity (without any perfectionism or guilt)
• Practical ways to reduce the pace of family life to prioritize connection, creative play and life-giving routines without sacrificing your most important values and responsibilities.
• How to cultivate healthy boundaries to navigate media and the online world to protect our souls from the invisible stressors of the modern environment
• Facilitate a deeper connection with your child or adolescent through their most formative years, laying a foundation for their future resilience & emotional health.

This book is an essential, empathetic guide to creating an environment for our children (& teens) to thrive. We cannot change the world we are all living in - but we do have influence over the environment our children experience in our relationships, homes, and classrooms. It is possible to turn down the noise.

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Praise for Turn Down the Noise

Parenting today can be deeply challenging, but Turn Down the Noise provides wise guidance and strategies to navigate a world that is often too loud and too much for our kids. This is a fantastic resource for parents, caregivers, and anyone else who is invested in compassionately shaping the next generation.

As a licensed counselor who has worked with children and families for years, I can confidently say that Turn Down the Noise is a game changer for parents navigating our overstimulating world. The book’s strength lies in its comprehensive approach, addressing the impact of technology, the importance of rest, and the need for play. Turn Down the Noise is a resource for parents seeking to create a balanced, emotionally healthy family life in the face of modern pressures. It’s a compassionate guide that will resonate with many parents and caregivers.

What does it look like to “be still and know that [he is] God” in the midst of today’s overstimulating world? In Turn Down the Noise, Sarah Boyd blends deeply relatable stories with evidence-based research, offering not just a diagnosis of the noise around us but hope and clear steps for being still, allowing us to cultivate spiritual, emotional, and mental resilience in our families. With compassion and insight, she equips parents to create an environment in which they and their children can embrace the slow, gentle path of flourishing. It is a must-read for anyone seeking to slow down and create meaningful connections with their family.

Raising kids? You need this thoughtful, practical book. Sarah’s deeply researched work and caring words of wisdom will help you feel seen, validated, and supported in all the stages of the parenting journey. As someone in the thick of parenting, I highlighted my way through—and I’ll be sharing copies with friends too.

Turn Down the Noise spoke to my heart as a woman and a mother like no other book has. Sarah’s ability to recognize the overstimulation in today’s world and illuminate a hopeful path forward is balm to the soul and offers practical guidance for the daily tasks of parenting. Beautifully written, full of encouragement, and incredibly insightful, this is a book you will reread many times and want to share with every parent you know.

Sarah Boyd is a leading voice in the conversation around the chronic stress and overstimulation plaguing today’s families. As we work to empower the next generation, Turn Down the Noise is an integral resource for equipping parents and children with what they need to slow down, embody new rhythms, and advocate for what they need to truly thrive.

Sarah Boyd is one of the sanest women I know. And I trust her. Which is why I’m so grateful for this book. In Turn Down the Noise, Sarah gathers her training in psychology to help us think about building wise families in an insane world. Buy this book. Read this book. Let this book change you.

The topics of overstimulation and stress are sure to be relatable to most parents. Boyd’s book expertly delivers implementable ideas to overcome these issues.

Product Details

• Title: Turn Down the Noise: A Practical Guide to Building an Emotionally Healthy Family in a Chronically Overstimulated World
• Author: Sarah Boyd
• Publisher: Tyndale Refresh
• Print Publication Date: 2025
• Logos Release Date: 2025
• Pages: 272
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9798400500411, 9798400500398
• Resource ID: LLS:9798400500411
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-17T22:39:12Z