Helping the Creative, Sensitive, or Gifted, AKA CASIGYs™, Thrive, Heal, Become Fully Alive and Fulfill Your Destiny
When [life] buffets us most severely with storms of affect or depression, we can also expect to find in dreams and fantasy the healing meaning that rescues. by Edward Edinger brought to you by Sharon M. Barnes, MSSW, LCSW Therapist For Sensitive And Gifted
Hannah, a doll made from a stray sock, is quite a helpless creature. Hannah sometimes has days with her face in the dirt, like a caterpillar. When she can’t take any more of life’s dirt, she creates a cocoon for herself, Where she can heal, rejuvenate and recreate herself. But eventually the cocoon becomes a prison, and she finds a way to break out. As she emerges, she discovers that while cocooning, she
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself. Anna Jameson
Soul is closely connected to fate, and the turns of fate almost always go counter to the expectations and often to the desires of the ego. Thomas Moore
Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them. –Anne-Sophie Swethine
Our way is not soft grass, it’s a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun. Dr. Ruth Westheimer
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
I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was two things I had a right to, liberty and death. If I could not have one, I would have the other, for no man should take me alive. Harriet Tubman
As each idea comes to us, we must in good faith clear away our inner barriers to acting on it and then, on an outer level, take the concrete steps necessary to trigger our synchronous good. Julia Cameron
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I like your cycles of discouragement and encouragement. We barely scratched the surface of you have here. I want to learn more. Attendee CAGT 2016
I loved your practical, therapeutic ideas, and the science behind them. NH, GT educator. SENG Conference 2015.
Your presentation was extremely rich in material. So many practical ways to deal with things, heal and help others. The in-session breathing exercise was great. Thanks so much! Loved it! FA, GT adult,GT parent. SENG Conference 2015.
Listening to you helps me feel less like a misfit myself! AK, teacher. CAGT conference 2013
I like the ways of calming oneself and the reflective tools that you teach. CAGT 2016 Attendee
I like your acronym of CASIGY to describe gifted characteristics quickly. Attendee CAGT 2016
I love your TNT tool for an emotional check-in. I want to learn more about how to use it, and how to become more accepting of emotions. Attendee, CAGT 2016
Great analogies of the ocean and emotions. “Real” conversation. I can SO relate. BS, teacher.
She comes across so knowledgeable, caring and I am so happy to have her working with my daughter! She made my daughter feel so comfortable and cared for and is happy to go back and learn all she can from Sharon.
I like how you showed us that gifted students have a more perceptive and more reactive central nervous system – that it’s faster, stronger, more intense. Attendee CAGT 2016