On this week's episode of Embracing Intensity, I'm sharing my talk from the SENG (Supporting the Emotional Needs of the Gifted) conference in San Diego on The Embracing Intensity Journey

I share insights gained from interviewing gifted and outside the box thinkers on my Embracing Intensity Podcast including overarching themes and what tools and habits have helped them to use their fire in a positive way. The participants will then have the opportunity to share their practices that have helped embrace their own intensity.

Get access to the full talk with discussion on Patreon!

In this episode:

• Childhood Sensitivity
• Messages of "too much"
• Toning Down & Tuning Out
• Living Within The Lines
• Catalyst
• Using your fire for good!

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Talk Slides

Aurora met today’s special guest, Kate Arms,  at the SENG conference recently and was so inspired by her talk entitled  "Thriving with Intensity: Mining The Magic From Your Overexcitabilities” that she knew Kate would be the perfect fit for the podcast. Kate’s professional background includes working in a myriad of careers including being a lawyer, administrator, artist, writer, and coach. Kate describes her Signal Fire Coaching Program as a vehicle for her to do her life’s work: helping people thrive as the fullest version of themselves and creating effective systems that support the people working within them.

More in this episode:

• Kate’s shares details about her personal intensity.
• Factors that affected Kate’s intensity while growing up
• Kate describes ways her intensity could feel out of control in the past.
• Channeling ways of questioning others
• Using leadership thinking to question self
• How theater can help intense individuals.
• No one person will have all the answers for you.
• Kate’s personal practices
• The personal passion that fuels Kate's intensity
• The magic question

Resources Mentioned in the Show:

How to donate to help keep the podcast going via Patreon

website: Thrive With Intensity

website: Parents of Twice Exceptional Kids

website: Signal Fire Coaching

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Undoing Depression, by Richard O’Connor

Making It All Work, David Allen

If you are a multipotentialite, do you prefer to cycle through interests or do a whole bunch of different things at once? In this week's episode of Embracing Intensity, I discuss my own tendencies when it comes to pursuing multiple passions and why I'm moving from a lot of varied activities at once to focusing on just a small few. 

In this episode, I discuss:

• Rainbow people vs. specialists.
• Where I'm a specialist.
• Learning about our learning. 
• How you can join our upcoming group call on the Embracing Intensity Journey!

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Find Your Superpower Course

Upcoming Group Call 

Are you struggling with a difficult relationship? Would you like to find out how to use this hardship as a means to transform your life and discover yourself spiritually? Sunny Joy McMillan joins us on the show today and she is a happy divorcee. After a high-conflict marriage, she learned how to have a really awesome post-divorce friendship with her ex-husband, until he passed away in 2018. Sunny is passionate about empowering adults to make soul-based relationship choices and using divorce as a catalyst for personal transformation and spiritual awakening. Listen in today to find out what she has to share about how she guides people towards making their relationship choices based on heart and soul, rather than culture, family, or social concerns.

Sunny describes herself as a recovering attorney and she is also a practicing master life coach, having done her coach-training and certification through Dr. Martha Beck's program. She has recently written a book, called Unhitched, which will be coming out in December. Sunny also hosts a weekly radio show, Sunny In Seattle, where she interviews inspiring guests like Gay Hendricks, Neil Donald Walsch, Mark Nepo, and many others. Listen in today to find out more.

Show highlights:

• Sunny explains what she is intensely passionate about.
• What took Sunny out of the life that she no longer wanted to live.
• How Sunny's former life as an attorney helps her to guide people through her process.
• What Sunny's own brand of intensity looks like.
• The way that Sunny managed to free herself from a life that did not work for her.
• What Sunny's book is all about.
• The way that Sunny's intensity affected her while she was growing up.
• Sunny has had to get used to feeling comfortable in her own skin.
• Cultural factors that affected the way that Sunny used to feel about herself.
• What Sunny has learned about her own self-worth?
• The people that Sunny looks up to.
• The really messy life that Sunny used to live.
• Sunny explains her need to become a whole person.
• The way that Sunny uses her fire for good.
• Sunny's current purpose in her life.
• How having a spiritual awakening has changed Sunny's life.

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Book mentioned on the show: Steering By Starlight by Martha Beck.

For your free, electronic copy of Sunny's book, go to Unhitched Book     

For my Patreon Pledge Drive go to Patreon to get great bonuses for signing up. This is where you can join us for the group call.