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October 14, 2025

The Fascinating Life of a Bibliophile

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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Published on October 14, 2025 14:41

October 1, 2025

What Are You “on This Earth to Give?”

“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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Published on October 01, 2025 09:29

September 19, 2025

The Parentified Gifted Child in the Dysfunctional Family

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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Published on September 19, 2025 08:01

September 12, 2025

Trusting Your Intuition and Your Multipotentiality

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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Published on September 12, 2025 10:03

September 3, 2025

It Probably Doesn’t Matter That I Will Never Be Great

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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Published on September 03, 2025 09:55

August 27, 2025

How Might YOU Describe the Experience of Rainforest-Mindedness?

If your particular brand of giftedness is the rainforest mind variety, you will likely relate to this from Diane Ackerman in A Natural History of the Senses: “…it probably doesn’t matter if we try too hard, are awkward sometimes, care for one another too deeply, are excessively curious about nature, are too open to experience, […]

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Published on August 27, 2025 08:37

August 20, 2025

When Your Gifted Traits Run Amok

When you are gifted, your capacity to achieve, enthusiasm for learning, and high levels of empathy, are obvious strengths. And yet, there are times when these assets run amok and send you out of whack. A combination of several of the following factors are typical amok-afiers: ~ You feel pressure to excel at most all […]

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Published on August 20, 2025 12:04

August 13, 2025

The Loneliness of Being So Darned Smart

You know that Walt Whitman quote: “Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am large. I contain multitudes.” But how do you manage all of your complexities, your contradictions, your discombobulations? Where do you find another human who won’t be overwhelmed by all that you are? All of that smartness? Where […]

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Published on August 13, 2025 08:20

August 6, 2025

A New Podcast About and For Gifted Adults is Here!

Yes, you read that correctly, a podcast designed for gifted adults is out now! And you won’t be flummoxed to know that I am the first guest! I am not the creator of said podcast, even though ChatGPT hallucinated that I had one. This pod is the brainchild of Chad Peevy, a 40-something charming fellow […]

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Published on August 06, 2025 11:04

July 30, 2025

When ChatGPT is Your Best Friend

Last week I learned that a number of my clients are talking with ChatGPT. Often. It seems that when you are gifted, ChatGPT might be the only entity you’ve met that knows more than you do. I guess it makes sense. You are smart. You learn many things quickly. You have lots of interests. Lots […]

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Published on July 30, 2025 08:25