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The Gifted Adult’s Guide to Finding Friends

You’re sensitive. Empathetic. Funny. Generous. Smart. Adorable. And yet, you have trouble finding friends. I’m here to help. I’ve gathered my five favorite posts on relationships here so that you don’t need to go searching for them. I’d suggest that … Continue reading

The Top Thirty Reasons Gifted Humans Feel Guilty

Top 30 Reasons You May Feel Guilty: You aren’t living up toyour potential. You get impatient with people slower than you. You’ve painted your living room12 times in 5 years. You haven’t won the Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, or any … Continue reading

Gifted Kids, Rainforest Minds — Still Misunderstood After All These Years

Way back in the later 1970’s, I was teaching in public schools in N. America and feeling the heat of the Does-Giftedness-Matter-Debate. You know what I’m talkin’ about. I remember the superintendent at the time saying: “There are no gifted … Continue reading

Impostor, Scholar, Procrastinator, Healer — Your Multidimensional Self

What if your multidimensionality could be dividedinto specific peopled-parts that you could identify, name, converse with, and learn from. What if you could bring all of those parts into a conference room and sit them down at a … Continue reading

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 … Continue reading

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 … Continue reading

Goodbye To Your Impostor Syndrome — Hello To Your Authentic Self

If you really werean impostor, you wouldn’t be worrying that you’rean impostor. Think about it. There are people we all know who do not worry about this. They firmly believe that they have all of the answers and that they … Continue reading

Gifted and Misunderstood

How are you misunderstood? Let me count the ways. People tell you to lighten up when you’re just trying to enlighten them. People tell you to stop being so critical when you’re just making careful, thoughtful and thorough observations. People … Continue reading

Your Rainforest Mind — The Webinar

I was the guest speaker ata webinar held recently through Intergifted.com, a new-ish sensitively-designed website foundedby Jennifer Harvey Sallin to provide services and support for all of you rainforest-y grownups! In the webinar, I tellsome of my story of how … Continue reading

To Achieve Or Not To Achieve — That Is The Question

What does it meanto achieve or to be successful? You’re smart, so you’re a high achiever, right? Maybe.Not necessarily. And what is a high achiever anyway? And then. More questions: What is a reasonable expectation for your particular abilities and … Continue reading