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What Does Gifted Look Like? Clearing Up Your Confusion
People are astonished by how much you can do. You think you’re lazy. There’s so much that you’re not doing. People tell you how smart you are. You feel dumb. You know how much you don’t know and you still haven’t decided what you want to be when you grow up. People admire your (musical, artistic,…
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Change The World By Galvanizing Your Giftedness
There are times when you might feel an urgency to maximize your mojo. To jumpstart your juju. To manifest your muse. To galvanize your giftedness. This might be one of those times. I have two suggestions for you. Because of my psychotherapeutic leanings, these ideas are inner world oriented. There are many opportunities now for…
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The Benefits Of Being Gifted
If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you’ll know that I’m focusing on all of the many challenges that can exist when you have a rainforest mind. What about all of the good stuff, you might ask. Are there benefits to having a rainforest mind and, if there are, can you acknowledge them? And not…
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Fifteen Quick Reminders To Help You Make It Through The ‘Holidaze’
1 You’re not too sensitive if you’re easily overwhelmed by the holiday muzak, the florescent lights, the crowds, the frenetic meaningless pace, the likely psychopathic Santa and the smell of stale popcorn at the shopping mall. 2 You’re not a failure as a human being if your siblings went to Stanford and are all doctors…
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A Path Through Your Post-Election Paralysis
(Warning: Expletives. Do not read to your young children. But, surely, these times require expletives. Future readers: It is post-presidential election 2016.) I’m guessing that you’re having a hard time right about now. Am I right? Your sensitivity. Your empathy. Your sense of justice and fairness. Yeah. I’m guessing that you’re feeling overwhelmed and maybe just…
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If I’m So Smart, Why Do I Need Psychotherapy? Part Two
Things are looking kinda crazy these days. It’s hard to know what to think, what to do, or how to be. There are so many issues worldwide that need attention. So many. What should super-sensitive, empathetic, insightful, emotional humans do? Well. Being the obsessed-with-psychotherapy psychotherapist that I am, you can guess what I’m about to say. Hang…
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Managing Your Smartness — A Guide For The Underwhelmed And Overwhelmed
You’re capable. You’re fast thinking. You draw accurate conclusions when everyone else is still lollygagging. You’re at the finish line when others are just leaving the starting gate. Your coworkers would benefit from your insight if only they could realize that it’s insight. But they don’t understand your leaps and you’re tired of filling in the blanks.…
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How Can Sensitive Souls Change the World?
“We stand on the threshold of a great unknown. Individually and collectively, we launch into an uncertain future—at once, both perilous and saturated with possibility. Our accustomed, culturally-determined roles and identities are inadequate to navigate the sea change of our time. Our collective journey requires a radical shift in the human relationship with the community…
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