Oldish: The Rainforest Mind

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In this episode of Oldish: Conversations on Aging in the 21st Century co-hosts Dr. Janet Price and Gregg Kaloust have an engaging conversation with Paula Prober, a psychotherapist and  expert in what she calls The Rainforest Mind, what we used to call "gifted". Do you have a rainforest mind? Are you highly sensitive, smart, complex, creative, intense, curious, lonely, and misunderstood?  Or know someone who is? If so, listen to this.

Paula Prober is a psychotherapist, consultant, blogger, and author in private practice based in Eugene, Oregon, USA. For the past 35+ years her clients have been intellectually and creatively gifted adults and parents of gifted children. Along with counseling in Oregon, she consults internationally with these individuals. Paula has been a teacher of gifted children and presenter at universities, webinars, podcasts, and conferences. She has written articles on giftedness for Psychotherapy Networker, Advanced Development Journal, the Eugene Register-Guard and online for Thrive Global, Rebelle Society, psychotherapy.net, Highly Sensitive Refuge, and Introvert Dear. 

She has written three books: Your Rainforest Mind: A Guide to the Well-Being of Gifted Adults and Youth which is an in-depth look at giftedness through case studies of her counseling clients and Journey into Your Rainforest Mind: A Guide for Gifted Adults And Teens, Book Lovers, Overthinkers, Geeks, Sensitives, Brainiacs, Intuitives, Procrastinators, and Perfectionists, a collection of her most popular blog posts. Her most recent book is:  Saving Your Rainforest Mind: A Guided Journal for the Curious, Creative, Smart, & Sensitive.

Website:  www.rainforestmind.com 

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/paulaprober/

Link to books: https://rainforestmind.com/your-rainforest-mind-the-book/

Link to blog: https://rainforestmind.com/blog/

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