Gifted children can turn into insecure, anxious and depressed gifted adults when sibling and other family interactions in childhood make them doubt their value and lovability. It doesn’t take much emotional abuse (bullying by a family member) for a gifted child to believe READ MORE
Does Being Smart Mean You Don’t Have Any Social Skills?
The issue of feeling normal or fitting easily into our environments so that we feel like we belong and are welcome, is a deep and pervasive issue for many highly intelligent, gifted, people of all ages. I have long been interested in what makes people feel like they don’t READ MORE
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 READ MORE
What is Giftedness?
Do you ever wonder if you’d recognize it? This new book will help readers more fully understand what giftedness is and isn’t. I’m pleased to present a new book that will be published by 5LoG Press on October 24, 2024. How do we enable each gifted person to embark on a READ MORE
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 READ MORE