Amanda van Mulligen

Amanda is an author, writer, translator and blogger. Her latest work is ‘How to Raise a Happy Sensitive Child’. She has been writing about parenting highly sensitive children and parenting as a highly sensitive person for over a decade Happy Sensitive Kids.

Amanda studied at the London School of Journalism (Diploma with distinction) and completed a HSP Coach course in 2023. Her previous books include “101 Ways to Help Your Highly Sensitive Child Empty Their Bucket: Calming Tools During Times of Overwhelm“ as well as contributing to expat anthologies Dutched Up! Rocking the Clogs Expat Style, Once Upon An Expat and Knocked Up Abroad Again. She also translated the children’s book “Langmuts is een Held” from Dutch into English, a book written with highly sensitive children in mind.

She’s British born but made the Netherlands her home in 2000. She scribbles about her life in the Netherlands at Turning Dutch. She lives with her three teenage Dutch sons who are tinged with Britishness, a pure bred Dutch husband, two cats and two rabbits. Despite having dual nationality, she hasn't exchanged her shoes for clogs, munches no more cheese now than she did in England and still refuses to host Dutch birthday circles in her home.