Paula Prober's Blog

The thing I love about the holiday season is that I get to write a post about how the holiday mayhem can be particularly intense when you are a person who values peace, justice, environmental consciousness, nonconformity, aesthetic sensibility, nuance, and conflict-free meals. It’s my holiday tradition. I have several posts to show for it. […]

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It is so important that you find a therapist who is a good match for you. But how do you know? What are the signs? Perhaps, it will be easier to start with the signs that they are NOT a good fit. Here are some of the things therapists might say that are red flags. […]

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Do you think that if you allow yourself to identify with the label “gifted,” then you better be able to show it with your witty remarks, your trophy collection, and your PhD in quantum astrophysical dialectical fractalized string theory? I thought so. Well, my little rainforesterinos, think again! Sure, there may be one person out […]

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It is such a painful conundrum. You long to be deeply seen, To be truly known. To be unequivocally met by at least one human being. And yet, how is that possible when you are as intricate, biodiverse, abundant, resourceful, vibrant, and extraordinary as the rainforest? (Yes, that would be you.) I’m not saying it […]

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When you’ve been blogging for eleven years, as I have, you start worrying that you might not have anything new to say. Your dedicated readers who are deep thinkers and who are appalled by repetition might abandon you in frustration for courses on Complexity Explorer at the Santa Fe Institute. As you might imagine, I […]

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Chances are very good that if you have a rainforest mind, then, you are a lover of books, a passionate reader, a bibliophile extraordinaire! Am I right, my darling, delightful book nerds? You might have started reading when you were about 4 years old and you haven’t stopped since. You may secretly confide to your […]

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“Though it’s hard, we cannot let other people’s judgements keep us from giving what we’re on this earth to give.” Cynthia Erivo If you have a rainforest mind, it’s likely you are asking yourself this question. You may have wondered this for a very long time, even when you were a little tyke. You may […]

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What can happen in a family when the parents are abusive, neglectful, emotionally unavailable, or simply immature and you are their gifted child? Here are some possibilities: At a young age, you become the grown up. You take care of your parents in various ways. If you have siblings, you protect them. You become extremely […]

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How do you know when to trust your intuition? How do you know it is, in fact, intuition and not some evil gremlin that has taken over your brain? What is intuition anyway? Aren’t smart people all just super rational and reasonable? Isn’t intuition too woo-woo and just for hippies living in the woods in […]

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In my last post, I shared a quote from writer Diane Ackerman that was particularly rainforest-y, to use as a template for your own expressions of your giftedness. I am sharing a few of your responses here. I selected them as they are particularly representative of the beauty and complexity of your rainforest mind, along […]

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