YOUR RAINFOREST MIND

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Tag: overwhelm

How To Appreciate Your Quirky Traits While You Are Still Young-ish

I don’t do New Year’s Resolutions. I don’t own a table cloth or a lawn mower. I don’t like sunny days. I don’t finish one book before I start another. I would rather be single than live with someone who smells like garlic. I spend my hard-earned money on therapy, acupuncture, hair gel, and books…

December 30, 2022

decisions, mediocrity, overwhelm, self-confidence, self-esteem
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…

July 19, 2022

create, driven, empathy, intelligence, mental health, overwhelm, sensitivity
You Agree, You Are Gifted — Now What?

I rant a lot about how you need to recognize you have a rainforest mind so you can find greater self-acceptance, self-confidence, and move ahead into your fulfilling, meaningful, creative life. Right? But what if you already know you are gifted? What then? A blog reader put it this way: “…NOW WHAT? What do I…

November 22, 2021

achievement, indecision, intelligence, overwhelm, relationships, sensitivity

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