January 16, 2026

Do You Need a Break or a Certified Forest Therapy Guide?

Probably both. If you are a highly sensitive idealist, activist, and creative with ambitious goals Warning: Content may cause sudden clarity and extreme joy, awe, and belief in humanity. Meet Lori L. Cangilla, Ph.D., psychologist and founder of the Singularly Sensitive approach to therapy for gifted adults and the Highly Sensitive Person […]
December 31, 2025

2025 Winner of In-Your-Face, Daily Deluge, Confusing Content

It’s Not Trump In 2025, artificial intelligence dominated headlines and articles more significantly than coverage of Trump and his administration. Trump news was noisy and disturbing; yet, the narrative surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) was far more pervasive and multifaceted. The sheer volume and variety of perspectives on AI, spanning existential concerns to […]
December 2, 2025

Ever Wonder Why The Most Successful People Make Time for You?

The first week of December, Trish would open her schedule for a long lunch and engage in deep listening and storytelling about everything that makes us human. We would resist the temptation to talk about work. We could do that all other days of the year, and we often did, for more […]
November 17, 2025

Book Therapy

Write Your Own Prescription for Sanity During a crisis, the human brain shuts off all questionable information and demands truth, verifiable facts, and reliable direction. Fire? Where is the exit? Pandemic? Where is the vaccine or emergency room? Tornado? Where is the safe room? When the crisis is not real but manufactured, […]
November 4, 2025

If You Are Human, You Are Authentic

The confusion with AI ends here Authentic is what you are all of the time. It’s not a noun or a choice. It is what you are, even when questioning or searching for your authenticity. Every living human is authentic, and this story explores why it matters more to adults who become […]
September 13, 2025

Attention. Energy. Outrage.

What’s Happening to Your Brain, Why, and What You Can Do About It If attention is the substance of life, then the question of what we pay attention to is the question of what our lives will be. Attention was a big deal one week after Trump’s 2025 inauguration when I waved […]
September 2, 2025

Back in the Saddle Again

Out where a friend is a friend Hello friends, If you are new, the About page on Substack will tell you more about Gifted Professionals and Communicators and how to connect with not just anyone but the people actively looking for your story and your current projects. If you’ve been around for […]
July 18, 2025

Michele Molitor. Her Life’s Work Started When Her Career Ended

Join Us On This Journey from Job, to Career, to Calling Nobody tells you this when you are 18, so dive into this story about Michele Molitor and see if it speaks to what you know already or may be experiencing now. Nobody tells you that you start with a job. It […]
July 11, 2025

When the Gifted Log Off: Why the Digital Economy Rests on the Shoulders of the Few

From insight to consequences to reckoning The digital economy appears as frictionless, infinite, powered by code and data. Beneath the sleek architecture of platforms and algorithms lies a truth that rarely makes it into earnings calls or tech manifestos: The digital world runs on the backs of gifted humans. The journalists, authors, […]