14/07/2025
🌕 How Does the Full Moon Affect Children with Neurodevelopmental Delays?
Science meets subtle energy shifts
Have you noticed your child becoming more emotional, restless, or sensitive around the full moon? 🌝 You're not alone—and it’s not just a coincidence.
Research shows that the moon’s gravitational pull—powerful enough to move oceans—can influence human behavior, sleep cycles, and emotional regulation, especially in children whose nervous systems are still developing. Children with neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism, ADHD, SPD, or retained reflexes often experience heightened lunar sensitivity due to their already overactive or dysregulated sensory systems.
🧠 Possible Full Moon Effects on Neurodivergent Kids:
Increased meltdowns or emotional dysregulation
Difficulty falling or staying asleep
Sensory overload (light, sound, textures)
Hyperactivity or impulsive behavior
Regression in language or motor skills
Heightened anxiety, fear, or clinginess
These responses may begin 1–2 days before and peak during the full moon, fading within a few days after.
🌿 Tips to Release Trapped Energy & Support Regulation:
✨ 1. Grounding Movements:
Use rhythmic bouncing, crawling, or deep-pressure massage to anchor the nervous system.
✨ 2. Water-Based Healing:
Offer Epsom salt baths, increase hydration, or encourage water play to support detox and calming.
✨ 3. Emotional Expression:
Give space for drawing, storytelling, or sensory play to help express unspoken emotions.
✨ 4. Breathwork & Visualization:
Simple deep belly breathing or guided imagination exercises help soothe the body and calm emotional waves.
✨ 5. Body-Based Therapies:
Try fascia release, Spinal Energetics, or craniosacral techniques to clear stored tension from the body.
🌕✨ At Integrated Holistic Wellness, we work with children using an individualized, multi-modality approach—especially during heightened periods like the full moon.
Through gentle bodywork, nervous system regulation, reflex integration, and energetic alignment, we help your child’s body feel safe, calm, and at home within itself.
Every session is tuned to their unique needs—merging science, somatics, and subtle energy to restore brain-body balance and emotional ease.
💬 Have you noticed a change in your child’s behavior during the full moon? Share below—we’d love to hear your experience.