Highly successful individuals have often achieved their success by ignoring subtle, nonverbal sensing in order to efficiently evaluate and meet external expectations.
Healing for the Highly Gifted
Crisis for the Highly Gifted
You may have reached a time in your life when using your gifts to align with the culture’s expectations fails to provide meaning anymore. A loss of engagement with your life, a need to forge a new direction with no idea of how to do that, these are the crises that point you back to yourself.
Deconstructing the High Achiever
The high achiever has successfully linked his or her existence to the vehicles of business and thought that are the products of the dominant culture. As the fabric of the dominant culture and the rules of engagement are fracturing, the high achiever can lose all bearings.
Agents of Evolution
Your tendency towards innovation, divergent thinking, imagination, and focused attention are the hallmarks that make you who you are. You see patterns where no one else sees them. You know that everything is connected to everything else.
Healing Challenges for the Gifted & Sensitive
Gifted and sensitive people tend to be divergent thinkers who prefer original thought and are motivated by innovation in their fields of expertise. This inclination towards innovation means that their priorities and perceptions can be fluid, evolving rapidly.
Healing for the Introvert
Childhood experience, cultural expectations and the process of adapting to a culture of extroversion result in great injury for the introvert.
Recovering Introverts
I often use the phrase recovering introvert when referring to someone who has spent his or her whole life existing as an extrovert, yet whose make-up is that of an introvert and is only discovering this later in life. In Susan Cain’s book Quiet, she touches on this. She mentions the number of introverts who…
Avoiding Pain Through Positive Thinking
An unfortunate byproduct of the culture of positive thinking is that many people have used this idea to ignore their own personal pain. The ability of human beings to ignore their pain is a remarkable trait. This ability to split from the inner sirens that indicate physical or emotional injury or danger, to not hear…
Finding the Abundance in Enough
Everything about the dominant culture tells us that we are not enough. A consumer culture can only expand if we need more, and the only way that we will always need more is if we are not enough. Whether we need more schooling,more technology, more spiritual awareness, more muscle, or more modern appliances – every…
Hypochondria- a New Perspective on an Old Label
Imagine if we reframed the reality of the hypochondriac. Instead, we could focus on the medical field that is blind to fields of energy and subtle awareness. We could speak about the highly sensitive nervous system of the patient. We could recognize the complaints of the “hypochondriac” as signs of an unusual giftedness. We could…