What’s It Like to be Twice Exceptional?
A simple definition of twice exceptional would be a person who is both gifted in some manner and challenged in another.
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AD/HD
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Loneliness – The Invisible Health Crisis
Loneliness can prematurely end your life. It is right up there with smoking and obesity. It is time we gave it the attention it deserves.
Relationship Strategies
Relationship Strategy 1: Forget everything that happened yesterday.
The Inconvenient Child
Shifting from feeling like a victim of circumstance to empowered parenting.
Why I Gave Up on Education
I no longer expend energy on the education system in the United States. Read on to understand why.
Be Kind to Your Future Self
Caring for yourself includes caring for the you that will exist tomorrow.
Compassion
Compassion is what is critical to being OK, and there is science to prove it.
Emotional Fishing
Trolling for a compliment, instigating an argument, hovering in someone’s space, or hoping for a response that meets some emotional need are all types of emotional fishing. You launch a comment or physical gesture to see if you can elicit the response your want. It’s clever and a really unhealthy way to get your needs met (and, in the end, doesn’t really work).
The Emotions Workout
Intense emotions can feel wonderful or awful. Processing them is critical to our physical and mental health. Rarely do people explain how to process emotions. Here is a workout designed to really move emotions and reduce intensity.
Diseases of the Brain versus Diseases of the Mind
There is an important distinction we must make in the work we do. Am I dealing with a person suffering from a disease of the brain or a disease of…