I have listened to almost all of these podcasts and they've been so life- affirming and validating. This last one especially. I was listening thinking, "I need to start a podcast!" Thank you. As a PG person with all 5 intensities and a splash of PDA, finding your work during a time of profound loss and positive disintegration has helped with healing and growth.
I've been doing a lot of writing on gifted related issues and my experience, but would really like to listen to and participate in conversations about love and relationships for gifted people. There was one episode about sexually, but it focused more on orientation and didn't really get into the intensity of feeling in different ways that we can experience in relationships as gifted intense people. If we have receptors that take in a more sensations, that's a lot of feelings when in love or even in a friendship. I think that's a point of being "too much" we can all benefit from talking more about.
Chris, I heard you mention on the gifted trauma podcast that you are interested in deep meaningful connections, but many people aren't. That really resonated with me. Particularly as so many gifted people are also hyper-sensitive to injustice, superficiality, and intolerance. We look for kindness and moral courage in a world that often acts like that's too much work. The "too much" of integrity and love that isn't just transactional, social norm-bound complacency.
I'd like to connect with other people interested in talking about this.
Thank you for your work and your courage. It is inspirational.
Emma, if I start a podcast, you're the first person I'd invite! Anyone can get a PhD. Not everyone finds ways to be kind and respectful, and thoughtful about how to support other people.
Sarah, thank you for this. The point you’re making about intensity in love and relationships is one I think about constantly. You’re right that we haven’t gone deep into the sheer volume of feeling that comes with being wired this way in intimate connection. The “too much” of love that isn’t transactional. This is a conversation we should be having.
I’m glad this work found you when it did. Positive disintegration during profound loss is some of the hardest terrain there is, and finding a framework that names what’s happening can change your relationship to the suffering even when it doesn’t lessen it.
If you start a podcast, please let us know. And I agree with you about Emma. ✨
Sarah, this makes my heart so happy. The conversation was one of those rare recordings where the affection between us all just came through naturally. I hope you enjoy it!
I have listened to almost all of these podcasts and they've been so life- affirming and validating. This last one especially. I was listening thinking, "I need to start a podcast!" Thank you. As a PG person with all 5 intensities and a splash of PDA, finding your work during a time of profound loss and positive disintegration has helped with healing and growth.
I've been doing a lot of writing on gifted related issues and my experience, but would really like to listen to and participate in conversations about love and relationships for gifted people. There was one episode about sexually, but it focused more on orientation and didn't really get into the intensity of feeling in different ways that we can experience in relationships as gifted intense people. If we have receptors that take in a more sensations, that's a lot of feelings when in love or even in a friendship. I think that's a point of being "too much" we can all benefit from talking more about.
Chris, I heard you mention on the gifted trauma podcast that you are interested in deep meaningful connections, but many people aren't. That really resonated with me. Particularly as so many gifted people are also hyper-sensitive to injustice, superficiality, and intolerance. We look for kindness and moral courage in a world that often acts like that's too much work. The "too much" of integrity and love that isn't just transactional, social norm-bound complacency.
I'd like to connect with other people interested in talking about this.
Thank you for your work and your courage. It is inspirational.
Emma, if I start a podcast, you're the first person I'd invite! Anyone can get a PhD. Not everyone finds ways to be kind and respectful, and thoughtful about how to support other people.
Thank you both. And everyone on this episode.
Sarah, thank you for this. The point you’re making about intensity in love and relationships is one I think about constantly. You’re right that we haven’t gone deep into the sheer volume of feeling that comes with being wired this way in intimate connection. The “too much” of love that isn’t transactional. This is a conversation we should be having.
I’m glad this work found you when it did. Positive disintegration during profound loss is some of the hardest terrain there is, and finding a framework that names what’s happening can change your relationship to the suffering even when it doesn’t lessen it.
If you start a podcast, please let us know. And I agree with you about Emma. ✨
Thank you! I hope the conversation about this happens. I'm here for it. Living in it.
I feel some strange, wonderful mix of FOMO + intense swooning seeing that this collaborative conversation exists among you all! Listening *ASAP.*
Sarah, this makes my heart so happy. The conversation was one of those rare recordings where the affection between us all just came through naturally. I hope you enjoy it!