Category Archives: introspection

10 Basic Good Mother Messages

Posted on May 23, 2012 by raisingsmartgirls

I’ve been a mother for 1o.5 years now.  And I need constant reminders about what is good fertilizer to grow children.  I know, so sad, right?  But it’s true. I have read in so many places regarding healing from childhood … Continue reading →

Posted in abuse, anxiety, Attachment Parenting, Depression, emotional dysregulation, gifted adults, gifted children, gifted support, highly sensitive child, highly sensitive mom, Intensity, introspection, loss of parental love, meltdowns, mindfulness, motherhood, my mothering goals, personal growth, personal issues, raising smart girls, suicidal ideation, trauma | 1 Comment

Blizzards and Boredom and Bertrand Russell.

Posted on December 13, 2010 by raisingsmartgirls

What better way to spend a snowy midwest winter evening than curled up with a cup of hot cocoa and Bertrand Russell’s The Conquest of Happiness.   It was written in 1930, but it’s still very much appropriate and inspiring.   It … Continue reading →

Posted in boredom strikes, gifted adults, gifted children, gifted support, intellectual stuff, introspection, personal growth | 6 Comments

The compulsion to write

Posted on August 6, 2010 by raisingsmartgirls

Arriving early at my therapy session today, I sat in an armchair of the waiting room and picked up one of the Newsweek magazines that caught my eye. It was the August 9, 2010 Books issue with a photograph of … Continue reading →

Posted in gifted adults, highly sensitive mom, Intensity, introspection, Mark Twain, Nikola Tesla, Writing | 2 Comments

This other me…this other life

Posted on July 31, 2010 by raisingsmartgirls

A metamorphic process is underway in me.   It’s something that began 6 years ago…when I stepped out of the treadmill of conventional service-for-pay employment. I’ve been engaged in some online conversation about finding meaningful work when you have many gifts/talents … Continue reading →

Posted in butterfly, career, combining science and motherhood, creative space, gifted adults, gifted support, intellectual stuff, Intensity, introspection, On friendship, personal growth, personal issues, selective mutism | 5 Comments

A healing journey

Posted on July 29, 2010 by raisingsmartgirls

This has been the post that’s been on my mind for over a week now. I haven’t found the words to convey my feelings about the healing journey I went on last week, when we went by train to seek … Continue reading →

Posted in abuse, Attached Dad, incompleteness, introspection, personal growth, trauma | 6 Comments

Marriage, motherhood and the philosophical mind…

Posted on July 15, 2010 by raisingsmartgirls

I am hoping I could generate some input regarding a person’s intense need for philosophical inquiry and making room for a personal life. What I’m referring to is the endless struggle between feeding the intellectual needs and, being a social … Continue reading →

Posted in gifted adults, gifted support, intellectual stuff, Intensity, introspection, mindfulness, personal growth, personal issues | 6 Comments

There’s that faith thing again

Posted on April 9, 2010 by raisingsmartgirls

Just when I think that I can not resolve some of my lack of deep conviction in the existence of God, because I’m too rational, too analytical, too scientific, a friend of mine tells me he was reading Miguel de … Continue reading →

Posted in faith, incompleteness, intellectual stuff, introspection, personal growth, poetry, synchronicity, Writing | 10 Comments

Making peace with what is.

Posted on March 26, 2010 by raisingsmartgirls

In grief, there is an element of inconsolability.  In our needs there is an element of unsatisfiability.  In the face of life’s most profound questions, there is an unknowability.  This fits in with the work of Kurt Godel, the Czech … Continue reading →

Posted in incompleteness, Intensity, introspection, personal growth, perspective | Leave a comment

Maybe not so stuck?

Posted on March 22, 2010 by raisingsmartgirls

It’s spring break this week and I decided I wanted to do a few projects with the kids, but more than just random, unrelated projects (which we’ve done many of), I wanted to work on a unit study of something … Continue reading →

Posted in career, combining science and motherhood, introspection, science experiments | 2 Comments

Stuck.

Posted on March 19, 2010 by raisingsmartgirls

I’ve often wondered lately if I am on a bit of a self-destructive path of late and not entirely sure I haven’t gone off the deep end but haven’t yet acknowledged it to myself. Something is keeping me stuck and … Continue reading →

Posted in gifted adults, gifted support, health, introspection | 16 Comments