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How to Appreciate the Life You Have and Let Go of the Life You Think You Should Have
If you know me, you may have heard me shriek groan ruminate wonder about finding a partner for my golden years my third act. You may have read my Letters to My Future Boyfriend. You may know about my last significant relationship with the nature-obsessed neighbor from hell. You may even know that the planet…
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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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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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Three Essential Books For Empathetic Introspective Activists
Just when I thought the situation in N. America, could not get worse, the situation got worse. All over the planet, we are seeing disturbing developments. If you have been reading my blog for a while, you probably know what I am about to say. So, I will let Van Jones say it: “Humanity’s most…
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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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It’s Time We Talked About Trauma, Resilience, Intuition, And Spirituality
I was asked on a recent podcast about my work with clients who experienced trauma as children. Are rainforest-minded clients more traumatized than non-rainforest-minded clients when there is abuse in the family? Are they more resilient? Is there a difference between a highly sensitive, intuitive, gifted child and a regular more typical child when it…
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Are You Crazy or Are You Just Gifted?
I was talking with a client the other day about her pain and frustration with her colleagues and friends who do not see the nuance, the complexities, the layers, the connections, the subtleties, the intricacies– that she experiences all the time. All the time. And in today’s divisive, angry, not-nuanced environment, she is not sure…
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