A few weeks ago, during the recent Academy Awards Ceremony,  I, along with many others, was blow away by Oscar winning writer Graham Moore’s acceptance speech when he shared, “When I was 16 years old, I tried to kill myself because I felt weird and I felt different, and I felt like I did not belong. And now I’m standing here.” Graham Moore expressed openly what so too many CASIGYs™ (Creative, Acutely Aware, Super-Sensitive, Intense,

Are you Highly Sensitive, even Super-Sensitive?  MOVE to Lower Your Stress, Feel Better, and Increase Your Self Worth!   A quick review of online forums and bulletin boards for highly sensitive and/or gifted people on any given day reveal that many have high stress levels, illness, pain and other distressing symptoms. Our guest for this LifeCraft™ Webinar/Teleseminar is Dr. Matthew C. Barnes, DC. Yes, he’s my son. In spite of his thinking that he knew

This Thursday, October 9, 2014 at  7 PM MDT,  I will be holding a complimentary  1  hour webinar called:   No More SAD CASIGY’s™ (Creative, Aware, Super-Sensitive, Intense, Gifted You-s)   Sensitivity, Anxiety and Depression are the top three problems brought by gifted people to psychotherapists’ offices the world over.    How CAN Sensitive and Gifted CASIGYs™*  Transcend Sensitivity Anxiety and Depression?   In this CASIGY™ LifeCraft™  Webinar, You’ll Learn:  What it is about being a CASIGY™ that

How to Find the Magic in Being a CASIGY ™- That is,  A Sensitive or Gifted “Misfit” Are you, or do you know someone who is –  C-reative, Curious, Complex A-cutely Aware, S-uper-Sensitive, I-ntense, often Introverted; sometimes G-ifted and maybe       Y-ou? If this describes you, or someone you care about, then you might like this acronym CASIGY™.  Highly sensitive people often have many of these characteristics. Gifted people frequently, but not always,  have all of them.

  When Life ‘dumps’ on us, our first inclination is often to resist and fight what happens. We tighten up our  muscles, find ourselves saying, “No!” and otherwise spend our energy in trying to change what has happened  or what IS happening. The trouble is that works about as well as fighting an ocean wave. Have you ever done  that? How did it turn out? Not well?  Not for me, either. My focus in this

New shootings remind us: #CASIGYs (#Creative, #Sensitive, #Gifted) can be highly impacted by #trauma. Here’s how to cope: http://ow.ly/xUtDu