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Your Rainforest Mind — The Webinar
I was the guest speaker at a webinar held recently through Intergifted.com, a new-ish sensitively-designed website founded by Jennifer Harvey Sallin to provide services and support for all of you rainforest-y grownups! In the webinar, I tell some of my story of how I became a psychotherapist-consultant-speaker-blogger-author-tango dancer. (Well, actually, I leave off the part about the tango…
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Will My Gifted Kid Ever Be Truly Happy?
It’s complicated. Your children think, feel, analyze, imagine, worry, debate, empathize and perceive more than average kiddos. That’s life in the rainforest mind. MOREness. And, with super high standards, high expectations and a tendency to keep raising the bar, there’s not much time to appreciate an accomplishment before they’re onto the next thing. Add to that a…
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“…Complicated, Confounded, and Chaoticized…” — Living With Gifted Minds
“Since the first moment of his existence, Taylor has complicated, confounded, and chaoticized nearly every detail of his family’s lives.” This is one of my favorite sentences from Tom Clynes’ book, The Boy Who Played with Fusion: Extreme Science, Extreme Parenting, and How to Make a Star. My favorite paragraph from Clynes’ book is: “Waiting…
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Existential Depression in Gifted Teens
Beth came to see me for counseling when she was 16. Unlike many teens who might be reluctant to seek counseling, she asked her mother to find her a therapist. She knew she was in trouble. When her mom contacted me, she said that Beth used to be energetic, motivated, athletic and a high achiever in school.…
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Intense Kids, Intense Parents — Tips for Managing the Mayhem
How do you manage your emotions and your sensitivities while raising your super intense super smart children? How do you raise your children without unconsciously repeating the patterns set down by your own parents? I’m guessing that you think about this a lot. Especially at 3am when you’re desperately trying to sleep. Or when you hear your mother’s…
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Pressure, Paralysis And Your Great Potential
Have people repeatedly accused you of not living up to your potential? Were you called an underachiever when your grades in school were not A’s? Are people shocked and disappointed that you didn’t become a Nobel prize winning neurosurgeon? Are you convinced that all of the talk of giftedness was not meant for you and your real IQ…
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Your Kids Are Gifted. Should You Tell Them?
What do you do when your little darlings think fast, feel deeply, and ask questions you can’t answer. What do you do when they correct your mistakes, ruminate about the meaning of infinity, and prefer Beethoven to baseball? Do you tell them that they’re gifted? Do they need to know why the other four year olds ignore their lectures on the life cycle of the…
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Most Popular Posts of 2015
Here are the top six posts of 2015. Thank you so much for reading, commenting, sharing and living your sensitive, intelligent, emotional, curious, compassionate rainforest-y life! Join me, dear bloggEEs, for more treks into the depths in 2016. Let us know, in the comments, how you’re doing and what you’d like to see next year. Imagine…
YOUR RAINFOREST MIND
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