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Sitting with Hard Feelings: Building Resilience from the Inside Out
By Violeta Dubov Building Resilience: You don’t have to take the first step alone From a young age, most of us learn that emotions like anger, fear, and sadness are uncomfortable -both for ourselves and for those around us. We’re also taught, often unintentionally, that these “hard” feelings can be fixed or avoided. A crying child is soothed with a lollipop. An irritable teen is distracted with funny videos. As adults, the same pattern continues. We feel the pressure, intern
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Finding Your People: How Social Prescribing Helps Neurodivergent Minds Thrive
Social prescribing is a powerful tool for helping neurodiverse individuals build resilience, find belonging, and experience personal growth.
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Tingles & Tranquility - Exploring ASMR as a supportive tool for neurodivergent people: Giftedness, 2e, ASD, and others.
By Pam Ross, & Michelle L. Guy, 2025 Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) is a fascinating phenomenon where certain sounds or visual stimuli trigger a relaxing sensation, often described as a tingling feeling that typically starts at the scalp and travels down the back. For many, this experience can be deeply soothing, creating a calming and grounding effect. But what about neurodivergent folks, specifically those with ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder),
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Body Connection Activities for Gifted, Twice-Exceptional Kids: Helping Them Tune into Their Feelings
Interoception for kids, activities to use at home to improve the body-mind connection.
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Mindfulness for Kids: Calming your child's busy mind
Mindfulness and Meditation for Kids, The importance of modeling and practicing with our kids for better mental health.
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"Overexcitabilities" and Giftedness/2e: Dabrowski's identification of common characteristics in Gifted & 2e individuals.
Gifted, twice exceptional folks often exhibit multiple "overexcitabilities". Gifted, 2e minds may need different support than neurotypicals.
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Neurodiversity: Highly Gifted or "Profoundly Gifted" People
Profoundly gifted (above 99th %), increased intensity, empathy, and asynchronous development, Complexities
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Gifted/2e is Neurodiversity: The Complicated Minds of the Gifted
Understanding Asynchronous development, Neurodivergence includes giftedness, twice-exceptional, 2e: Gifted & LD, ADHD, ASD or C-PTSD,
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