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"Gifted trauma" is the trauma that gifted (highly intelligent) people can experience when ridiculed, ignored, rejected, misunderstood, out-of-place, left out or left behind, pressured, or excessively groomed as a result of their unusual minds. Their high mental complexity also affects their experience of more common traumas in important ways. In this podcast, Jennifer Harvey Sallin, psychologist & founder of www.intergifted.com, explores all this and the many paths to healing for gifted adul ...
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Conversation 15: Giftedness, Personality Disorders & Paths to Wholeness
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In this episode, Jennifer Harvey Sallin talks with clinical psychologist Kael Cockcroft about the origins of personality disordering, what it's like when giftedness and personality disordering overlap, and therapeutic and personal paths to wholeness. Personality disordering is about getting stuck in limited strategies for relating and surviving, du…
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Conversation 14: Healing through Humor & Play -- with Gordon Smith
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In this episode, Jennifer Harvey Sallin and gifted therapist, coach & improv instructor Gordon Smith explore how humor and play are essential elements to our healing path. Healthy humor and the authenticity and spontaneity of playfulness allow us to connect to ourselves and to others in unique and deeply grounding and meaningful ways. We explore Go…
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Conversation 13: Taking Listeners' Questions on Gifted Trauma & Healing
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In episode 13, Jennifer Harvey Sallin and gifted coach and leader Eva Bruchez take listeners’ questions on healing from gifted trauma. They explore the role of “little t” trauma in the life of a gifted person, the long-term effects of childhood emotional neglect (including a lack of loving touch), and the complications of narcissistic parenting on …
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Conversation 12: Giftedness, Positive Disintegration & Mental Health -- with Christiane Wells
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In this episode, Jennifer Harvey Sallin talks with psychologist and founding president of The Dabrowski Center, Christiane Wells, on the topic of giftedness, positive disintegration and mental health. Chris became an expert on Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration after learning in her 30's how much the theory positively reframed her experi…
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Conversation 11: The Effects of Intergenerational & Collective Trauma on Giftedness -- with Marc Smolowitz
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In this episode, Jennifer Harvey Sallin talks with The G Word Film director Marc Smolowitz on the topic of intergenerational and collective traumas, how they affect giftedness expression, and how we can find empowerment and healing. Marc was born into a family of holocaust survivors, came out as gay in his teens, lost countless friends during the h…
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Conversation 10: Giftedness, Loneliness & The Art of Gifted Connection -- with Lotte van Lith
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In this episode, Jennifer Harvey Sallin talks with Dutch giftedness specialist, coach, lecturer, trainer and author Lotte van Lith. Jennifer & Lotte explore the types of loneliness a gifted person can experience, including intellectual, emotional, family, social, physical, existential, creative, physical and more. Giftedness is about exchange, and …
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Conversation 9: Our Inner & Outer Nature -- with Eric Windhorst
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In this episode, Jennifer Harvey Sallin and ecotherapist & coach Eric Windhorst explore our connection to our inner & outer nature, as well as to fundamental consciousness. When fragmentation caused by trauma keeps parts of us disconnected from what is true within us and around us, we can provide conditions to welcome the fragmented parts back home…
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Conversation 8: Healthy Boundaries, Part 3 -- Cultivating Inner Organization
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In this episode, Jennifer Harvey Sallin & Karin Eglinton conclude our three-part episode series on healthy boundaries by exploring the cultivation of inner organization. Particularly important in this discussion are educational trauma and various dominant ideologies which, when unnamed and unnoticed, make it difficult for us to show up in the world…
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Conversation 7: Healthy Boundaries, Part 2 -- Cultivating Coherence
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In this episode, Jennifer Harvey Sallin & Karin Eglinton continue our exploration on cultivating healthy boundaries by looking deeply at individual, social and collective coherence and its role in helping us to be generative and boundaried adults. This is one of our longer episodes, and it reflects the importance of this topic in our world of quick…
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Conversation 6: Healthy Boundaries, Part 1 -- Cultivating Aliveness
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In this episode, which is part one of a three-part series of episodes, Jennifer Harvey Sallin & Karin Eglinton explore an essential topic to healing from gifted trauma: cultivating healthy boundaries. We introduce the themes of cultivating aliveness, coherence, and inner organization in helping us heal from trauma and create sustainable relationshi…
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Conversation 5: Gifted Trauma & the Climate Emergency
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In this episode, Jennifer Harvey Sallin & Karin Eglinton explore how gifted trauma predisposes many of us to strong and painful - and sometimes debilitating - reactions to the climate emergency. Karin shares her personal story of how she was affected by this and worked through it, and we explore together what a gifted person can do now to heal from…
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Conversation 4: Gifted Needs & Symbolism
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In this episode, Jennifer Harvey Sallin & Karin Eglinton explore gifted-specific needs. In response to gifted-specific trauma, we often get distanced from a present-moment awareness of our gifted-specific needs and enter into a negative feedback-loop of self-alienation. We explore how this cycle gets started, and how we can interrupt it and exit it…
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Conversation 3: Gifted Trauma & The Body
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In this episode, Jennifer Harvey Sallin & Karin Eglinton explore the effects of gifted trauma on the body - shock to the brain, muscular and neuronal holding patterns and physical blocks, illnesses, disability and other longer-term bodily effects. All of these, in turn, affect our ability to self-care, to be healthy, to be fully present in our rela…
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Conversation 2: Healing Through (Gifted) Connection
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In this episode, Jennifer Harvey Sallin & Karin Eglinton explore how gifted-specific trauma is often felt as a disconnection from the world, due to feeling socially out of place, misunderstood, unappreciated or exploited. Thus, healing requires forming nourishing and healing connections with others - especially others who are gifted and share simil…
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Welcome to our first podcast episode. In this episode, Jennifer Harvey Sallin & Karin Eglinton explore how gifted trauma can result in feeling shame about our unusual minds. Many adults with gifted-specific trauma also feel shame about the need to heal and redo more basic developmental tasks in the healing process. Healing is a complex journey, one…
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