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Why Smart People Need Therapies and Why it Might Take a Long Time to Heal Even When You Are a Fast Learner Everywhere Else
If you grew up in a family with abuse, neglect, alcoholism, or other trauma, you might have learned that you are not enough or that you are broken. You might often feel shame or self-hatred or you might have a very active inner critic who constantly tells you the many ways you have screwed up.…
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Gifted and Black in North America
“Anyone or anything that dampens my creative fire has got to go!” Meet Kaitlin Smith. She is a 34 year old Harvard-based scholar and former psychotherapist. She contacted me about her upcoming course for gifted/2e Black adults, called Black Brilliance Circle, (beginning June 2023) designed to help this population “thrive in the face of the…
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“I Have A Love-Hate Relationship With My Own Brain”
You, too? Do you have a love-hate relationship with your brain? If you do, you are in good company here in rainforest mind world. It might be because, as one reader said, “sometimes it is really too powerful and goes too fast.” Or, you have so many interests and so much curiosity, as another reader…
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When You Are Highly Gifted, Is The World Ready For You?
It may be true. The world may not be ready for the most gifted among us. The world, more specifically, the people of the world, may look at you with wonder or amazement, confusion, fear, or derision. None of those looks are particularly desirable. They are not looks of understanding, appreciation, enthusiasm, or love. Not…
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One Size Does Not Fit All When You Are Sensitive, Smart, Persnickety, Discerning, Intricate, Perplexing, Astute, Penetrating, Prolific, Visionary, Wizard-y, and Resourceful
I get so annoyed when I hear people say their way is the ONLY WAY to happiness or healing or inner peace or fame and fortune! If you just do THIS all your problems will be solved in an instant. If you follow this diet, or this spiritual practice, or this guru, you will become…
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Being Gifted May Not Be Such A Gift
I have been working with gifted kids and adults since the late 1970’s (were any of you even alive then?), and I am STILL stunned by your beauty. By your big-hearted compassion. By your vast, deep, bold intelligence. By your unparalleled curiosity. By your striving, your questing, your seeking. By your passionate drive to know.…
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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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How Do I Know You Are Gifted?
How do I convince you that you are, in fact, gifted? (Yes, today we are using the G word.) Well. I hear giftedness in your voice, as you talk quickly, intensely, and passionately. I see it in your drive for understanding and creativity and in your explorations of the intricacies of, oh, everything. I feel…
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