Creative, gifted people have Rainforest Minds - with therapist Paula Prober

Paula Prober is a psychotherapist and consultant specializing in counseling gifted adults and youth.

This is an excerpt of her conversation at the 2021 edition of the Empaths, Sensitives & Intuitives Summit. She is interviewed by host Melissa Schwartz.

A page for the summit by The Shift Network summarizes:

"Do you feel like not enough and too much at the same time?

"Are you accused of always overthinking, when all you see around you are underthinkers?

"Do people tell you that you are too smart, too intense, too sensitive, too creative, too curious, too verbal, too persnickety, and too opinionated?

"If so, you might have a rainforest mind."

[See The Shift Network site for the 2022 Empaths, Sensitives & Intuitives Summit.]

In her article "Counseling Gifted Adults – A Case Study” Paula Prober writes about Susan, who “had known that she was different since she was seven.

“Her thoughts and feelings had never fit into the box that was comfortable and reassuring for most children.

“Her appetite for learning was insatiable. Reading was more nourishing than food."

See related article with more by Prober, therapist Sharon M. Barnes, John Lennon, and others: Gifted and creative adults are different from an early age.

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