Category: Bright Adults & Life Stories
7 Case Studies of Moral and Personal Growth in Gifted Adults at Midlife through a Dąbrowski Lens
A short summary of the case study results Kazimierz Dąbrowski was a Polish psychologist, psychiatrist and physician. He is known for his theory of “positive disintegration” as a mechanism in personality development. I first learned about it in the early 1990s and included an examination of it in my doctoral dissertation, Environmental, familial, and personal […]
Gifted Baby Boomers: How They Were Raised, and How They Raised You
… and how it might still be affecting you, your parenting, and your relationships This article is about the generations before you. If you are currently raising gifted children in 2026, you are probably from the Millenial, X, or Z generations. Some readers here are Baby Boomers, and this article can open your eyes as […]
Downsizing My Digital Footprint!
In order to focus on writing, I am downsizing my digital footprint to reduce the number of platforms where my writing will be shared. In addition to publishing print and digital books, I will continue to post on Substack and on Medium, and I invite you to keep in touch there!
The 5 Levels of Gifted Children Grown Up: a Longitudinal Study
I want to put an end to a waste of talent and ability that not only hurts individuals but limits all of us. I’m a High Intelligence Specialist. Literally. Some people write for fame and profit; I write to share my own hard won wisdom and give people access to their real selves and their […]
Sex, Gender, and the Election — Part 1 of 3
A Sex and Gender Specialist Explains the Primal Reasons Behind the 2024 Election I first encountered Michael Gurian’s work in 2003. I started to buy copies of his book, What Could He Be Thinking? How a Man’s Mind Really Works so that I could both recommend it to my clients, the parents of gifted children, and sell […]
Why the Gifted Emigrate, Immigrate, or Migrate
Why Do So Many Gifted Adults and Families Come to the United States? If you’ve read my previous posts, you know I have addressed the topic of the “relativity of giftedness.” See my post Giftedness is Relative. I also cover the reality that not all gifted — even the profoundly gifted — get good grades in school. And yet, most […]
Moderately Gifted Children’s Early Adult Outcomes, Part 1
This blog explains it a bit about the journey — path — to adult outcomes. Two subjects are in this post and two more from Level One are in Part 2. They are Moderately Gifted. Remember that the giftedness levels are only one method that helps to share information — and address appropriate needs and […]
The Intense World of Gifted Women
Growing up — and showing up — as a gifted is usually filled with difficulties and pitfalls. Podcaster, Suki Wessling, focuses her work on the world of women. It was so long ago that she interviewed me for her podcast that I can’t remember exactly why she interviewed me, but she knew I’d written a […]
Inner Growth in Gifted Adults: How to Understand Viewpoints Based on Dąbrowski Levels
In this post we look at how the way your parents were raised and how they raised you might still be affecting you, your parenting, and your relationships. Dąbrowski’s theory came after your Baby Boomer relatives were already grown up. Before that, not many people got therapy. But that doesn’t mean they weren’t trying to […]
After 6th Grade, Things Got More Interesting!
In a previous post, I talked about my early school years the post called How Author Background Affects What They Write. Here I am the summer before I became an 8th grader. About the time I was starting 7th grade, I was still acting somewhat serious and sane, and my grandfather commented happily that he was glad to see […]
