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Seven Strategies to Cope With the DIFFERENCES of Being a Highly Sensitive or Gifted Person. (Part 1)

At least once a week, a highly sensitive or gifted child or adult tells me that they HATE being SO DIFFERENT from other people. They tell me that they feel abnormal and just wish they could be NORMAL! They say things like “I feel like an alien from a different planet!” and ‘What’s WRONG with ME?” Highly sensitive and many gifted people have Central Nervous Systems that are more perceptive and more reactive than that

Sharon Barnes February 23, 2017

Five Tools to Solve Behavior Problems with Gifted, ADHD Kids

Is Your House Haunted by the Mayhem Monster? Five Tools to Solve Behavior Problems with Gifted ADHD Kids: Many kids, especially those with ADD, AD/HD or who are Gifted, Creative or Highly Sensitive feel the need to stimulate their brains. For lack of better methods, they create chaos & crisis. Voila! The Mayhem Monster is born and grows bigger each time it’s activated. Unfortunately, the Mayhem Monster wrecks havoc on family harmony, homework assignments, friendships,

Sharon Barnes February 16, 2017

How to Help Your Creative, Sensitive or Gifted Kids Weather Emotional Storms

How to help your creative, sensitive or gifted kids weather emotional storms is a frequent dilemma for parents, grandparents and teachers of CASIGYs (Creative, Acutely Aware, Super-Sensitive, Intense, and/or Gifted You-s). Betty, mother of an eight year old gifted boy recently asked me “When my son comes home from school, I can tell he’s upset by something that happened. I ask him to tell me about it. When he does, he gets even more upset

Sharon Barnes January 19, 2017

Catch and Release Living is Simply This

Catch and release living is simply this: Breathe in; feel it (all of what you are experiencing physically and emotionally right now). Breathe out; release it (all of what you are experiencing physically and emotionally right now). Then again: Breathe in, feel it. Breathe out, release it. ScrapLady Sharon Barnes

Sharon Barnes July 6, 2012

Seven Strategies to Cope With the DIFFERENCES of Being a Highly Sensitive or Gifted Person. (Part 1)

Five Tools to Solve Behavior Problems with Gifted, ADHD Kids

How to Help Your Creative, Sensitive or Gifted Kids Weather Emotional Storms

Catch and Release Living is Simply This

Mistakes – Antidote to Perfectionism

Nine Lessons I Learned on Road to First Grade

Love’s Labor; my SoulShirt™ Process and Surprise Effects – Part 3 of 3