Our new community writing & art project has begun!
Each year, our community embarks on a shared process of reflection, transmutation and creation, which results in the compilation and publication of an ebook that we share with the public in our InterGifted bookshop. Our current compilation has gotten started and focuses on true stories about how we have healed gifted trauma.
"Gifted trauma" is the kind of trauma that can happen to gifted people if they experience punctual or ongoing ridicule, neglect, rejection, misunderstanding, or feeling out-of-place, left out or left behind, pressured, or excessively groomed as a result of their unusual minds. Naturally, we are most vulnerable as children, so painful events and wounding that happen in our childhood related to the traits that come along with our giftedness, can have long-lasting effects on our development, relationships and life fulfillment well into adulthood.
Healing our gifted-specific traumas takes courage, support, accurate mirroring and understanding of our gifted minds and gifted needs, resources to meet those needs, people who help us and give us hope, empowerment, valuing our giftedness and finding holistic expression of our giftedness in our life.
Being gifted doesn't necessarily mean you'll experience gifted trauma. But if you do, gifted-attuned healing and support makes all the difference. With the right support, healing itself can be a beautiful, life-affirming process, even while being painful at times. The healing process can connect us to our deepest selves, to others, and to the world. And those of us who have healed have unique stories to tell. This compilation allows us to put words to our experiences and to share them with other gifted peers who may need to hear them in turn.
This compilation will be published sometime in Summer 2025.
How to participate?
If you're a community member and want to participate in our project, come to our community and our Creative's Group, to find out more details for participation.
To join our community, go to our community page.
To read our past community compilations, including...
Retrieving the Bones
These Gifts Are Sacred
Emergence
Gifts for an Emerging World
Being Me
Making the Invisible Visible
Embracing the Gifted Quest
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