Paula Prober's Blog, page 13
April 24, 2023
COMING SOON!! “Saving Your Rainforest Mind–A Guided Journal for the Curious, Creative, Smart, & Sensitive”
It’s almost here! Book three in the Rainforest Mind trilogy! This one is a guided journal. Here is a description from the introduction: “…This guided journal is your opportunity to take a deep dive into the highly sensitive seeker that is you. You’ll be shown how to increase your understanding, acceptance, and celebration of your […]
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April 17, 2023
Finding Your Authentic Voice–Song Memes For Your Rainforest Mind
I think I was about seven when I decided I wanted to be a singer when I grew up. When I was in high school, college, and in my 20’s, that morphed into community musical theatre. Not with professional aspirations, but as a creative outlet and occasionally frustrating hobby. My favorite role was the tragic […]
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April 11, 2023
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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April 3, 2023
Therapy Is Now Popular!
I am so relieved. I am no longer the only person in the world who loves psychotherapy! OK. I was never the only person in the world who loves therapy but for as long as I can remember there has been a serious stigma against it. You were crazy if you were seeing a therapist […]
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March 22, 2023
“My Brain Is Not A Brain That Does Well With Down Time”
“My brain is not a brain that does well with downtime. So if I have a lot of down time, it will start out like ‘You’ve had a really rewarding career’ and end up with ‘You’ve failed everyone that ever loved you.‘ Jon Stewart The rainforest-minded brain needs intellectual stimulation. If it doesn’t get to […]
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March 14, 2023
“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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March 6, 2023
Parenting a Gifted Child When You Are Gifted, Too–The Good News And The Not-So-Good News
In my experience, gifted children often have one or both parents who are gifted. That is the good news. And the not-so-good news. The good news: You can relate to your child’s challenges because many of them are similar to yours. You, too, are highly sensitive and have plenty of empathy so your child will […]
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February 27, 2023
Managing Expectations and Pressure to Be a Super Achiever When You Are Gifted
“…So often, expectations of worldly success are hung like a dead albatross around the neck of the cognitively gifted, when what we really need is permission to become ourselves in unencumbered weirdness. My favourite humans — the ones I’ve learned most from — are gloriously, heroically, and unapologetically weird...” dw Permission granted. I am not […]
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February 20, 2023
Are You Ready To Show More Of Who You Are? There is No Better Time to Be Your Gifted Self.
I’ll go first. This week I shared a video on Instagram where I told my IG peeps about a skill I have that I have kept underground for many years. Did you watch it? Here’s the scoop: I have been experimenting with channeling sounds, melodies, energies for many years but just shared the experience with […]
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February 8, 2023
Are You Overthinking Or Are They Just Underthinking?
Are you often accused of overthinking? Do people tell you that you ought to be more chill and less analytical? More easy-going and less demanding? More go-with-the flow and less insightful? More quiet and less noisy? More dull and less sharp? That’s what I thought. All I can say is, please, do not stop *over*thinking. […]
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