A career path suited to [gifted adults] needs must provide us with a sense of meaning and large-scale purpose. … For many of us, it often takes years of varied experience to clarify a life mission and to find our niche. Mary-Elaine Jacobsen
A child will integrate only those experiences that her primary care-givers can accept and hold, and will exclude from awareness those thoughts, feelings and behaviors that might disrupt her most crucial attachment relationships. These unacceptable experiences then remain undeveloped, unintegrated, and impossible to verbalize. They become … nearly unreachable places in the psyche that hold implicit experiences of relational trauma.
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