In this episode, Jennifer Harvey Sallin talks with clinical psychologist Kael Cockcroft about the origins of personality disordering, what it's like when giftedness and personality disordering overlap, and therapeutic and personal paths to whol

Conversation 14: Healing through Humor & Play -- with Gordon Smith

Sep 27th, 2023 1h 27m

In this episode, Jennifer Harvey Sallin and gifted therapist, coach & improv instructor Gordon Smith explore how humor and play are essential elements to our healing path. Healthy humor and the authenticity and spontaneity of playfulness allow

Conversation 13: Taking Listeners' Questions on Gifted Trauma & Healing

Sep 11th, 2023 1h 22m

In episode 13, Jennifer Harvey Sallin and gifted coach and leader Eva Bruchez take listeners’ questions on healing from gifted trauma. They explore the role of “little t” trauma in the life of a gifted person, the long-term effects of childhood

Conversation 12: Giftedness, Positive Disintegration & Mental Health -- with Christiane Wells

Aug 15th, 2022 1h 44m

In this episode, Jennifer Harvey Sallin talks with psychologist and founding president of The Dabrowski Center, Christiane Wells, on the topic of giftedness, positive disintegration and mental health. Chris became an expert on Dabrowski's Theor

Conversation 11: The Effects of Intergenerational & Collective Trauma on Giftedness -- with Marc Smolowitz

Jul 15th, 2022 1h 18m

In this episode, Jennifer Harvey Sallin talks with The G Word Film director Marc Smolowitz on the topic of intergenerational and collective traumas, how they affect giftedness expression, and how we can find empowerment and healing. Marc was bo

Conversation 10: Giftedness, Loneliness & The Art of Gifted Connection -- with Lotte van Lith

Jun 17th, 2022 1h 13m

In this episode, Jennifer Harvey Sallin talks with Dutch giftedness specialist, coach, lecturer, trainer and author Lotte van Lith. Jennifer & Lotte explore the types of loneliness a gifted person can experience, including intellectual, emotion

Conversation 9: Our Inner & Outer Nature -- with Eric Windhorst

Oct 22nd, 2021 1h 19m

In this episode, Jennifer Harvey Sallin and ecotherapist & coach Eric Windhorst explore our connection to our inner & outer nature, as well as to fundamental consciousness. When fragmentation caused by trauma keeps parts of us disconnected from

Conversation 8: Healthy Boundaries, Part 3 -- Cultivating Inner Organization

Sep 7th, 2021 1h 28m

In this episode, Jennifer Harvey Sallin & Karin Eglinton conclude our three-part episode series on healthy boundaries by exploring the cultivation of inner organization. Particularly important in this discussion are educational trauma and vario

Conversation 7: Healthy Boundaries, Part 2 -- Cultivating Coherence

Sep 21st, 2020 1h 57m

In this episode, Jennifer Harvey Sallin & Karin Eglinton continue our exploration on cultivating healthy boundaries by looking deeply at individual, social and collective coherence and its role in helping us to be generative and boundaried adul

Conversation 6: Healthy Boundaries, Part 1 -- Cultivating Aliveness

May 14th, 2020 56m 31s

In this episode, which is part one of a three-part series of episodes, Jennifer Harvey Sallin & Karin Eglinton explore an essential topic to healing from gifted trauma: cultivating healthy boundaries. We introduce the themes of cultivating aliv

Conversation 5: Gifted Trauma & the Climate Emergency

Jul 11th, 2019 1h 24m

In this episode, Jennifer Harvey Sallin & Karin Eglinton explore how gifted trauma predisposes many of us to strong and painful - and sometimes debilitating - reactions to the climate emergency. Karin shares her personal story of how she was af

Conversation 4: Gifted Needs & Symbolism

May 1st, 2019 1h 27m

In this episode, Jennifer Harvey Sallin & Karin Eglinton explore gifted-specific needs. In response to gifted-specific trauma, we often get distanced from a present-moment awareness of our gifted-specific needs and enter into a negative feedbac

Conversation 3: Gifted Trauma & The Body

Mar 7th, 2019 1h 12m

In this episode, Jennifer Harvey Sallin & Karin Eglinton explore the effects of gifted trauma on the body - shock to the brain, muscular and neuronal holding patterns and physical blocks, illnesses, disability and other longer-term bodily effec

Conversation 2: Healing Through (Gifted) Connection

Feb 14th, 2019 1h 46m

In this episode, Jennifer Harvey Sallin & Karin Eglinton explore how gifted-specific trauma is often felt as a disconnection from the world, due to feeling socially out of place, misunderstood, unappreciated or exploited. Thus, healing requires

Conversation 1: Healing Gifted Shame

Jan 22nd, 2019 51m 12s

Welcome to our first podcast episode. In this episode, Jennifer Harvey Sallin & Karin Eglinton explore how gifted trauma can result in feeling shame about our unusual minds. Many adults with gifted-specific trauma also feel shame about the need

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