Your Rainforest Mind: A Guide to the Well-Being of Gifted Adults and Youth

Interwoven with rich case studies from Paula’s counseling practice, Your Rainforest Mind will be earmarked and tear-stained. Prepare to lose your first copy to your best friend. ~Linda Silverman, Director of Gifted Development Center and author of "Giftedness 101" The rainforest is Paula Prober’s fresh and apt metaphor for the abundant internal ecosystem of the gifted child or adult. Like tropical forests around the world, the gifted are both fragile and powerful, surrounded by threats but full of world-changing potential. Prober does not settle for shallow or simplistic answers; she explores and finds inspiration in places that other researchers and practitioners haven’t considered. Drawing on examples from her clinical practice, she presents straightforward strategies for encouraging not just accomplishment, but also the capacity for happiness and fulfillment. The result is an intensely readable and useful book that will resonate with anyone concerned with understanding and nurturing the extraordinary abundance within ourselves and the gifted people in our lives. ~Tom Clynes, author of "The Boy Who Played with Fusion" Paula Prober, M.S., M.Ed. is a licensed counselor and consultant in private practice in Eugene, Oregon. Over the 30+ years she has worked with the gifted, she has been a teacher, consultant, adjunct instructor with the University of Oregon, and a guest presenter at Pacific University and Oregon State University. She has taught sessions on gifted adults and on parenting gifted children at conferences and webinars. Presently, she is counseling gifted adults in Oregon and consulting with parents of gifted children and gifted adults internationally. She has written articles on giftedness for the Eugene Register-Guard , the Psychotherapy Networker, Advanced Development Journal and the Annals of the American Psychotherapy Association . She blogs about gifted adults and parenting gifted children at rainforestmind.com.