Coping with Sensitivity, Anxiety and Depression

No More SAD CASIGYs™
How to Cope with
Sensitivity,
Anxiety and
Depression
Presented by
Sharon M. Barnes, MSSW, LCSW
I’m The ScrapLady:
I Help CASIGYs™ ─and others ─ Create Beauty From Life’s Scraps
Phone: 303-987-0346
www.TherapistForSensitiveAndGifted.com
© 2015 Sharon M. Barnes, LCSW, PLLC www.TherapistForSensitiveAndGifted.com

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 Life’s Scraps
 Creative Healing & Creative Transformation counseling &
psychotherapy
 Creative Healing Presentations, PlayShops & Retreats
 Wilderness Guide
 I’ll Guide You through the Wilderness of CASIGY™ Inner Territory
to Destinations of Delight!
 www.TherapistForSensitiveAndGifted.com

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
Hero’s/Heroine’s
Journey; a call to
oAdventure
oIndividuation
oConsciousness
oWholeness

Why Do
Sensitive, Gifted
Students Seem SO
Susceptible to Being
SAD from
Sensitivity,
Anxiety and
Depression?

You’re a CASIGY™
In a mundane,
insensitive,
dumbed-down
world

What’s Who’s A CASIGY™ ?
Creative, Curious, Complex
Acutely Aware
Super-Sensitive
Intense, Introverted, Intelligent, &/or
Gifted
You?

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 Baker’s 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
+ 4

2. Emotions
are like ocean
waves;
1-2
it doesn’t
work to fight
what you feel.
Allow yourself
to FEEL what
you feel.

3. Recognize
what’s
happening in
your life
that’s getting
you down.
1-2

4. Ask~ Do the
Waves Match?
3

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
4

6. Express
your
emotions
creatively.
The hands ‘know’
what the frontal
lobes cannot know
© 2015 Sharon M. Barnes, LCSW, PLLC
www.TherapistForSensitiveAndGifted.com
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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 can’t 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
4

8.Don’t
wait until
you feel
good to
treat
yourself
well.
4

9. DO
what you
CAN DO.
4

10. Let go of what CAN’T be done.
5

11.Get Help!
 http://therapistforsensitiveandgifted.com/counseling-sensitive-gifted
5

12. No more
Ugly Duckling.
You KNOW
that You’re a
Swan!
6

13. Give
Thanks for
what’s
going well.
4 + 7

What is the MOST POWERFUL, yet
hidden TOOL that parents & teachers
have to help CASIGY™ kids and teens
deal with their difficulties?
o It’s 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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