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Keys to Preventing or Overcoming Holiday Overwhelm

The holidays are coming. Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanza are racing towards us. Just saying this starts a sense of overwhelm to creep into me. How about you? Let’s explore together how to prevent – or overcome – holiday overwhelm. When we were children, the wonder and magic of the holidays filled us with eager anticipation. As adults, it’s quite another story. There’s gifts to make or buy, homes to decorate, inside and outside; relationships to

Sharon Barnes November 26, 2014

Movement, Health and Happiness For HSPs and CASIGYs

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

Sharon Barnes October 15, 2014

No More SAD CASIGY’s™

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

Sharon Barnes October 7, 2014

Encouraging Sensitive and Gifted Students: You Are Different by Design!

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.

Sharon Barnes September 23, 2014

If Existential Depression Won over Robin Williams, How Can I Win Over Depression?

Existential Depression can be a significant issue for Sensitive and Gifted people of all ages, AKA CASIGYs™. Robin Williams tragic death by suicide is a prime example. If you are a parent, teacher, health professional or family member of a CASIGY™, you’re going to want to attend this LifeCraft™ Webinar! It is scheduled for this Thursday, September 18, 7 pm MDT ( 6PM Pacific Time, 8 PM Central time, 9 Pm Eastern time). Depression is one of

Sharon Barnes September 15, 2014

Creating Beauty From Life’s Scraps — From a New Angle

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

Sharon Barnes September 4, 2014

New shootings remind us: #CASIGYs (#Crea

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

Sharon Barnes June 12, 2014

Inspiring Results from Sharon’s Gifted Characteristics Questionnaire

Do you feel out of sync with the world around you? If you’re a CASIGY (Creative, Acutely Aware, Super-Sensitive, Intense, likely Introverted, Intelligent, maybe Gifted You) you’re right at home with your CASIGY peers. A key finding of my Gifted Characteristics Questionnaire is that 98% of those who completed it felt out of sync with the world around them. Read on to get the full story . . . . . Several years ago, it gradually dawned on

Sharon Barnes July 24, 2013

Ode to Mothers…Umm….I Hate Mother’s Day…Or Do I?

Reflections on How to Heal our Lives, Feed our Souls, and Fund our Dreams Happy Mother’s Day to my Mom, Maurine J. Sackett, picture on the right, last June in the Cusco region of Peru. We were on our way to visit Macchu Picchu before going to Juliaca, where she had lived as a young child. Her parents were missionaries there, and started a medical clinic that is now Clinica Americana. We helped them celebrate their

Sharon Barnes May 12, 2013

Remembering Columbine

[This post was published April 20, 2013] A few evenings ago, I had the privilege of eating dinner in the Bistro at Aspen Grove, in Littleton, Colorado (USA) with a good friend and colleague. She and I talked about the Boston Marathon, her niece who ran it this year, how my friend found out about the bombing, how her niece fared in the race, and most importantly WAS SHE SAFE? (She was.) My friend got

Sharon Barnes April 20, 2013