Gifted: A Psychotherapist’s Perspective.
Knowing that some of their distress was the result of their gifted traits was a relief and a place to start the healing process.
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Feel Your Connection with Other Sensitive, Intuitive, Creative Souls Living in This Crazy World.
Try a mindfulness app, a spiritual practice... or hikes in the forest or by the ocean. Feel your connection with everything.
Confessions of an Introverted Psychotherapy Nerd.
Am I a teensy weensy defensive because I still don’t have a table cloth?... Are all rainforest-minded souls introverted, introspective abyss-divers?
A Love Letter to You and Your Rainforest Mind.
You have so much spirit. To keep looking for love in spite of the bullies, in spite of your difficulty communicating with the multitudes of slower thinkers.
Are You Paralyzed by the Pressure to Be Perfect?
You are worthy of love, whether you write the perfect essay, win the competition, enter the elite school,... or if you don’t achieve these things.
You Can’t Show How Smart You Are to Anyone, Not Even to Yourself.
If you’re so smart, why aren’t you a rocket scientist?... You have high standards for yourself. Others are impressed with your accomplishments, you aren’t.
Mother Earth’s ‘Me Too’: An Open Letter to Middle-Class Women.
If Earth were on social media, she’d post #MeToo, and those crimes are ones that you and I are contributing to in a very real and empowered way.
Do You Feel like Not Enough and Too Much at the Same Time? You May Have a Rainforest Mind.
If you can realize that your too-much-ness is a result of a deeply sensitive, capable and unique soulfulness, you might then be able to find your voice and your purpose in this wild world, instead of misinterpreting your anxiety or depression or loneliness to mean that you’re a slacker, a ...
The World Needs More Over-Thinkers.
It’s how your brain works. Your big brain is very, very active. All of the time. So, for you, it’s not over-thinking. It’s just thinking. Or being.
Learning to Be Well: Detecting and Dismantling Fear-Based Manipulation.
Anansi and the Maroon and indigenous dwellers of the jungle had indirectly taught me that my 'primitive brain' and instinctual self, contrary to popular Western belief, were not ruled by fear and existential angst.