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What to Do When You Are Overwhelmed By Your Own Intense Drive to Create, Question, and Know
When you have a rainforest mind, you have an extraordinarily active thinking, feeling, imagining, designing, questioning, intuiting, seeking, wondering, worrying personhood. This rainforest (gifted!) phenomenon is not only a mind-thinking thing. It includes all of who you are. (If it had not been too cumbersome, I would have called it rainforest mind-heart-body-spirit-soul.) Many of my…
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Three Brazilian Psychologists and a North American Talk About Giftedness
I was invited to have a conversation with Giovanna Strobel and her colleagues in Brazil about our work with gifted clients. We found we have so much in common. Whether you have a rainforest mind in N. America or in Brazil, you may experience similar struggles. Hear all about it here. And thank you to…
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You Know You Have A Rainforest Mind When…
There are seventeen unread or partially read books piled next to your bed. And you are browsing on the powells.com website just in case. You have been told that what is obvious to you is not apparent to everyone. Really? But it is so simple, you declare with dismay. Your thinking and your style of…
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It Is Time To Stop Denying You Are Gifted — Part Two
I have written about the reasons you may be denying you are gifted. But I missed one. What if you are denying you are gifted because, if you admit you actually are gifted, then, you have to let the not-gifted humans off the hook. You have to not expect so much of them. You can’t be…
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New Book Coming Soon! More Guidance for Your Overthinking, Sensitive, Curious, Gifted Self
My next book is almost here! What? A new book? What’s it about? you might ask. Well. This one came from you. You have asked that my blog to be turned into a book. You have wanted my posts to be organized by topic. You have needed more specific suggestions on how to deepen your understanding…