Sharon M.Barnes,LCSW

Jungian-oriented Depth Psychotherapist. I help Creative, Acutely Aware, Super-Sensitive, Intense &/or Gifted People (CASIGYs) heal, grow and become fully alive

[Sharon M.Barnes,LCSW @ScrapLadySharon]

@IrishMensa I did not see your solution. Nigel lives with Zeus and lives next to Olivia and Fido. Martine's dog is Rover. This is a bit of a fun challenge! :)😀

[Sharon M.Barnes,LCSW @ScrapLadySharon]

Have past holidays been a nightmare due to ‘inevitable’ holiday meltdowns? Here’s tools to survive and even thrive through holiday family gatherings. https://t.co/emi3fDwOMT

[Sharon M.Barnes,LCSW @ScrapLadySharon]

The problem with this is that telling ourselves (or our friends or children) what to feel and what not to feelflies in the face of reality. https://t.co/A34Dg3zEgd

[Sharon M.Barnes,LCSW @ScrapLadySharon]

What if it’s actually the irregularities in our life’s pathways and how we navigate them that create interest and build character? https://t.co/WmBzfkDz8D

[Sharon M.Barnes,LCSW @ScrapLadySharon]

World Suicide Prevention Day is September 10, 2018. In this webinar, my goal is to equip adults and parents, teachers and creative, sensitive and gifted teens to Prevent Suicide! You can watch this recorded Webinar at your convenience. https://t.co/j7um8ZXjnr

[Sharon M.Barnes,LCSW @ScrapLadySharon]

Now I knew deep in my heart that the combined lessons and skills from both of my parents are the essence of what my life and my work is about. https://t.co/u5nWouZP92

[Chicago Gifted Community Center @ChicagoGifted]

Illinois mandates gifted and talented accommodations https://t.co/J5AeAkLJTx

[Sharon M.Barnes,LCSW @ScrapLadySharon]

These holes are the places in us that need to open up so our inner lives can be stitched together. https://t.co/5lu69y7nSb

[Sharon M.Barnes,LCSW @ScrapLadySharon]

Then I noticed an old bright pink wool jacket hanging in the back of the closet. It also ‘asked’ to be transformed into a SoulShirt™. https://t.co/7m7Ow9eDnL

[SENG @SENG_Gifted]

With a heavy heart, SENG shares the passing of its founder, Dr. James Webb: @jamestwebbGPP. No words can describe the appreciation we have for Jim's selfless mission to help others or the loss we feel across our community. Please visit his memorial page: https://t.co/g7q3pbte8w

[Sharon M.Barnes,LCSW @ScrapLadySharon]

I’ve found that wearing a shirt for my soul, AKA a SoulShirt™ is quite an adventure. https://t.co/gYLdiHmGrG

[Sharon M.Barnes,LCSW @ScrapLadySharon]

It’s a shirt that honors, feeds and expresses my sacred soul. It builds a bridge from my soul into the outside world, and right back in again. https://t.co/6BkcIb3LPu

[Sharon M.Barnes,LCSW @ScrapLadySharon]

Sometimes life can seem like the experience of a surfer caught in the “washing machine”, a phenomenon in which you get caught in wave after wave and can have trouble even coming up for air. https://t.co/yX3FLbSTXo

[Sharon M.Barnes,LCSW @ScrapLadySharon]

Emotionally sensitive people can ask ourselves when we are feeling an emotion, “Is this emotion mine?” If not, whose is it? https://t.co/bz5NYt9epX

[Sharon M.Barnes,LCSW @ScrapLadySharon]

It is as we learn how to create without editing our thoughts and actions to conform to our ideas about what is acceptable in the world that we begin to truly create. And that is when we begin to go where we have not been before. https://t.co/7d5ZDIWxnn

[Sharon M.Barnes,LCSW @ScrapLadySharon]

As I sewed on it and listened with my inner ear, it began to sink in that this throw-away block, and my life, too–could both be reclaimed — with some creativity, work (sometimes spelled P-L-A-Y) and lots of time. https://t.co/JcnkNlmpLp

[Sharon M.Barnes,LCSW @ScrapLadySharon]

You can heal yourself from the effects of the things that overwhelm you, truly thrive instead of just survive, and yes, even achieve your creative, sensitive hopes and dreams.https://t.co/3QsX9E5IzP

[Sharon M.Barnes,LCSW @ScrapLadySharon]

It is only when we dig deep enough to debride and cleanse our inner wounds that we find the buried treasure that’s essential to heal our lives, feed our souls, and grow our dreams.
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[Sharon M.Barnes,LCSW @ScrapLadySharon]

All of these things all boil down to making yourself and your kids’ body/mind/soul/spirit needs top priority, and adjusting your lives according to what you or they as CASIGYs truly need, rather than what you may only want. https://t.co/DWegbyJ11U

[Sharon M.Barnes,LCSW @ScrapLadySharon]

If you’re highly sensitive, creative, and/or gifted, you experience both direct and vicarious traumatization more quickly, more easily, more deeply and more pervasively than do other people. https://t.co/Hs4QHVHWPn