Barbara Sher on Scanners and Resistance
Video: “What stops you from doing what you love? It’s a survival mechanism called Resistance, and it goes into alert mode any time you do something that raises anxiety.” Barbara […]
View ArticleWhat’s a meaningful life? Eric Maisel and tips for making meaning
Creativity coach Eric Maisel, PhD is a leading expert on meaning, and has written more than 30 books, including The Van Gogh Blues. The Brain Fitness for Seniors blog has […]
View ArticleNovelist Clare Allen on “Poppy Shakespeare,” mental illness and creativity
By Cat Robson. The film Poppy Shakespeare, based on Clare Allen’s novel, takes us down a cinematic rabbit hole into north London’s fictional Dorothy Fish day hospital where the clearly […]
View ArticleChallenging stereotypes of giftedness: What Makes You Gifted?
By Cat Robson I used to think I couldn’t be gifted because I didn’t fit my image of gifted people: geniuses, successful, ambitious, confident, comfortable with themselves and basking in […]
View ArticleDealing with self-sabotage: Getting past I’m not good enough
By Cat Robson My very well-meaning parents were far from Mommie Dearest. Nevertheless, they were raised to believe, for instance, that babies shouldn’t be picked up when they cried because […]
View ArticleChildlike creativity: Nurturing Your Creative Mindset
By Cat Robson When I was a child I was always trying to act as grown up as possible. I stifled a lot of my exuberance and creativity to fit […]
View ArticleThe creative experience: intensity or madness
By Cat Robson. As I discovered over the years in my own interactions with the mental health system, when someone with a creative personality is seen through the eyes of […]
View ArticleSylvia Rimm on Perfectionism in the Gifted
“I was at dance school doing about 35 hours practice a week until I was 14. Then ballet started to grate – the whole idea of trying to attain perfection […]
View ArticleHow to Avoid Holiday Stress
Especially if you are a highly sensitive person, holiday seasons can bring challenges that may make it harder to keep your emotional equilibrium. In her article “9 Holiday Depression Busters,” […]
View ArticleUnrecognized Giftedness and Identity
By Cat Robson Embracing our identity as gifted and talented is not easy for many of us to do. Why is this so tough? What beliefs about giftedness get in […]
View ArticleClose to madness or unstoppable? Do gifted children become gifted adults?
Gifted adults often struggle with the same challenges as gifted children. What factors help adults identified as gifted when young to continue to achieve? Educator Carol McGaughey comments about these […]
View ArticleWhat makes gifted relationships so tough? Solutions for the Problems of...
By Cat Robson I could write a few novels with the material from my romantic and work relationships. Lots of drama and disappointment, and loads of self-recrimination. How does giftedness […]
View ArticleResistance to change
By Cat Robson. Why do I sometimes feel so at odds with myself about making changes in my life? Walking every day, working on my novel, keeping my home organized, […]
View ArticleDriven by giftedness to know more and express more
Others have sometimes labeled my insatiable curiosity as obsession, and my energy and drive to create as mania. Being misunderstood, by ourselves and others, seems to come with the territory […]
View ArticleIs it creative obsession or a disorder?
How obsessive are you? Writer Bertil Hjert asks: “Are you neat? Do you like to keep everything organized, orderly and tidy? While these are great character traits in the normal […]
View ArticleWork creativity strategies: How to get creative on the job
Many work environments seem designed to hamper our individuality and creativity. But there has to be more to our day than just keeping our noses to the grindstone…or mouse. There […]
View ArticleHighly sensitive: singer Joss Stone on being a ‘little empath’
Singer Joss Stone talked about being highly sensitive: “I think I’m just very, very emotional. My mom used to call me her little empath. Which can be dangerous when you […]
View ArticleChallenging stereotypes of giftedness: What Makes You Gifted?
By Cat Robson I used to think I couldn’t be gifted because I didn’t fit my image of gifted people: geniuses, successful, ambitious, confident, comfortable with themselves and basking in […]
View ArticleNovelist Clare Allen on “Poppy Shakespeare,” mental illness and creativity
By Cat Robson. The film Poppy Shakespeare, based on Clare Allen’s novel, takes us down a cinematic rabbit hole into north London’s fictional Dorothy Fish day hospital where the clearly […]
View ArticleUnrecognized Giftedness and Identity
By Cat Robson Embracing our identity as gifted and talented is not easy for many of us to do. Why is this so tough? What beliefs about giftedness get in […]
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