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No More SAD CASIGYs How to Cope with Sensitivity, Anxiety and Depression

Presented by

Sharon M. Barnes, MSSW, LCSW

Im The ScrapLady: I Help CASIGYs and others Create Beauty From Lifes Scraps

Phone: 303-987-0346

www.TherapistForSensitiveAndGifted.com

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ScrapLady Sharon M. Barnes, LCSW

Creative Transformation Specialist MSSW, (San Diego State)

LCSW- CO

AKA the Scrap Lady: I can help You Create Beauty & Benefit from Lifes Scraps Creative Healing & Creative Transformation counseling &

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Wilderness Guide Ill Guide You through the Wilderness of CASIGY Inner Territory

to Destinations of Delight!



A Great Tragedy

o School Shootings GT Students


A Great Tragedy


o Suicides of Gifted & Talented People


A Great Tragedy


o Suicides of Gifted & Talented People

o Under Achievement

o Alienation

o Dumbing down

o Copping out

o Dropping out

o Wasted intelligence

o Wasted talent

o Wasted lives


GT Differences are NOT Proof that Something is WRONG

INSTEAD, they are a

CALL to the

Heros/Heroines Journey; a call to

oAdventure

o Individuation

oConsciousness

oWholeness


Why Do

Sensitive, Gifted

Students Seem SO

Susceptible to Being

SAD from

Sensitivity,

Anxiety and

Depression?


Youre a CASIGY

In a mundane,

insensitive,

dumbed-down

world


Whats Whos A CASIGY ?

Creative, Curious, Complex

Acutely Aware

Super-Sensitive

Intense, Introverted, Intelligent, &/or

Gifted

You? 2015 Sharon M. Barnes, LCSW, PLLC www.TherapistForSensitiveAndGifted.com

Cycle of Discouragement


Cycle of Discouragement


The CALL to ADVENTURE,

CONSCIOUSNESS &

WHOLENESS

Cycle of Encouragement:

ANSWERING the CALL



Personal Power Pyramid

Seven Steps to

Building

Resilience

Top Ten Bakers Dozen Tips & Tools to Overcome CASIGY SAD-ness

1. Breathe

a. Belly Breathing

1. Put your hands on your stomach below your waist.

2. Breathe from your belly, so that your hands move up

and down as you breathe in and out

3. Slow down your breathing, focus especially on taking

longer to exhale

4. Continue to do this for several minutes. If you get light-

headed or dizzy, make sure you breathe in more.

5. Fill and empty your lungs as completely as possible with

each breath.

http://therapistforsensitiveandgifted.com/relaxation-breathing-exercises


Prep

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2. Emotions

are like ocean

waves;


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it doesnt work to fight

what you feel.

Allow yourself

to FEEL what

you feel.

3. Recognize

whats happening in

your life

thats getting you down.


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4. Ask~ Do the

Waves Match?


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5. Balance your brain


All of these Top Ten Tools help balance the brain.

Others include

o Nutrition

o Sleep

o Mind/body tools: massage, Yoga, ChiGong, Tai Chi, etc.

o Medication and/or supplements

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6. Express

your

emotions

creatively.

The hands know what the frontal

lobes cannot know

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Three Steps to Identify and Outsmart SADness before it takes over

1.Create

2.Contemplate

3.Crystallize


BUT this is SERIOUS.

We cant afford to Play Around!

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of

thinking with which we developed

them.

BUT HOW ?

seems to be the essential feature in

productive thought

1. PLAY imaginatively & visually

2. LATER find words to express

the discoveries


Are You Ready to Play FULL OUT?

Combinatory Play,

AKA Contemplative

Handwork

1. Connect

2.Identify

3.Create

4.Contemplate

5.Crystallize


7. Turn your

emotion

into motion


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8.Dont wait until

you feel

good to

treat

yourself

well.


4

9. DO

what you

CAN DO.


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10. Let go of what CANT be done.


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11.Get Help!

http://therapistforsensitiveandgifted.com/counseling-sensitive-gifted


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12. No more

Ugly Duckling.

You KNOW

that Youre a Swan!


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13. Give

Thanks for

whats going well.


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What is the MOST POWERFUL, yet

hidden TOOL that parents & teachers

have to help CASIGY kids and teens deal with their difficulties?

o Its the most natural way we all learn

o It takes one to know one

o You can't lead someone

o where you are not willing

o or able to go

o The most powerful influence on the child is the

unlived life of the parent/teacher (Jung)

o Use these tools for yourself first, then pass them along


BONUS TOOL!!

PlayShops for Parents & Teachers of GT Students


1. Five Fun Steps to Overcome Obstacles & Reach Your Goals

How to -

a) Build a BRIDGE between where you are .. and where you want to go b) PLAY your way past barriers to your big goals, (like Einstein did)

c) Keep your LIFE aligned ~ Mind-Body-Soul-Spirit

d) Face your dragons and win them over to be your supporters

e) Increase your creativity and innovation so you can reach your goals

2. LIVING The Top Ten Tools for CASIGYs How to -

a) Decrease over-sensitivity without sacrificing the benefits of sensitivity

b) Know what the REAL issue is, no matter what your kids SAY

c) Build a Strong Sense of Self at any age level d) Make Life with GT kids/teens an Adventure, not an Ordeal

e) Know WHEN to get help & what kind of help to get

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