Building an Emotionally Healthy Family in a Culture That Won’t Stop Shouting, with Sarah Boyd, M.Ed. in Psych
Typology
Ian Morgan Cron
4.6 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Ever feel like the world’s volume knob is stuck on “too loud”? In this week’s episode of Typology, I’m joined by my friend Sarah Boyd—an insightful Enneagram Four and author of the brand-new book, Turn Down the Noise: A Practical Guide to Building an Emotionally Healthy Family in a Chronically Overstimulated World.
Sarah has walked through seasons of deep beauty and deep challenge—including her own cancer journey—and she’s here to share how those experiences have shaped her understanding of creativity, meaning, and the role our emotions play in living a full, authentic life.
We talk about how overstimulation impacts both adults and kids, why recognizing our limitations matters, and how setting healthy boundaries isn’t selfish—it’s essential. Sarah offers thoughtful, practical ideas for creating a home where emotional health can thrive, even when the world outside feels overwhelming.
If you’ve been craving a little more peace, presence, and emotional resilience in your daily life, this conversation is for you.
In this episode, we explore:
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The beauty and necessity of emotional experiences
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How to navigate life in a chronically overstimulated world
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Simple, powerful practices for parents to nurture their kids’ emotional well-being
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The freedom that comes from self-care and clear boundaries
Thank you for tuning in. We hope you enjoy this enriching episode!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back, everybody. |
| 0:03.8 | And of course, welcome to our guest today, Sarah Boyd, Enneagram 4, author of the new book, |
| 0:10.1 | Turned Down the Noise, A Practical Guide to Building an Emotionally Healthy Family in a chronically |
| 0:16.3 | overstimulated world. |
| 0:17.8 | Sarah, welcome to typology. |
| 0:19.5 | Thank you so much for having me. It's an honor. I'm very excited to come and have a great conversation and learn as well. I'm honored. Wonderful. All right, so you are an enneagram four, and as Anthony and I are both fours, I thought I would come up with some four questions for us. Oh, here we go. So as of four, beauty and aesthetics matter, |
| 0:39.8 | right? Very much. Very much. Whether it's in art or it's in words or it's in experiences. So |
| 0:45.6 | what is something beautiful you've experienced in the past, recent past, that most other types might have overlooked. |
| 0:57.3 | Oh, what a good question. |
| 1:00.6 | Something that I notice a lot that I'm pointing out to my family is the flowers in the |
| 1:05.4 | garden or the way that the light hits in the afternoon. |
| 1:10.5 | So I'm always drawing their attention to that. |
| 1:15.4 | Yes, I'm all in for this. |
| 1:18.1 | You're speaking all my language. |
| 1:22.5 | I want to answer that question too. |
| 1:24.8 | I know you are. |
| 1:26.3 | I want you to. |
| 1:27.4 | What's your answer uh last night |
| 1:30.0 | coming home the moon but most every morning literally most every morning when i leave the house i have |
| 1:36.0 | a potted flower that is for one of them particularly for one of my daughters they both have particular |
| 1:42.2 | flower flowers and they bloom every morning, and I take |
| 1:47.2 | pictures and send it to her every day. And it makes me think of her like every day I walk out |
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